GMG, GMG, whatever, suffix you want to stick out of the work good. I know for those of you who are used to Marcus Holkin, it's wonderful to it as best as he plays. He plays some stock music, some elevated music to get the vibes going.
We went for our wonderful guest to join and our even more wonderful audience to join But I am not that technically adept so instead I'm gonna stick my phone out the window and you can hear the traffic of New York You might be over here. You might not the sirens, but we'll roll with that for a minute or two
to and then we will crack on.
All right, okay, it is one or one PM Eastern time We will give it another minute also for the most incredible community in the world of web 3 to join this beautiful little Twitter space and then I will cast the myc over to Laura c
from the horizons to tell you all about what it is and how it is revolutionizing support for wet three founders. Before you start sending me tweets and adding the protocol, I haven't spelled revolutionizing wrong. In England, I spelled with an S. The letter Z is
for the most box. But okay, let's crack on guys. It's recorded. We can share it out again and again and again and again and again. Laura, how are you doing on this wonderful Friday afternoon? How's it going? I am fantastic and so excited to be here and
chatting with all of you. Brilliant. Well, we are so glad that you are here. For those who are not yet in the know about all things, Lord, Cunningham and all things horizon, can you give us a quick introduction and can you let us know a bit more
about your role and a brief overview of near horizon, what it is, what it means, and why it is the next big thing. Absolutely, yes. So I'm Laura and I am the general manager of near horizon, which means that I weed our team to develop the product
And then create all of the partnerships that are needed in order to make the product successful. And then also support all of our incredible founders who are coming through. And so Horizon is a startup support platform that connects founders with people.
organizations and resources to help them be successful. And we're particularly focused on, you know, founders who are really in that idea phase through kind of the pre-seed seed stage to target in on. And if you are a founder, my big call to action
for this whole time is actually going to the platform which is live and you can access it at near.org/herizon and you can actually create a project profile so you can start looking around the platform and start meeting other fantastic founders.
And then service providers like marketing support, legal support, mentors, coaches, people who want to work on your team. And then of course also backers who are in our ecosystem and who are looking for the next great project for investment.
Thank you very much for the overview. But let's, if we abstract it a little further, can we get like the elevator pitch? Let's say I, or indeed any of our listeners are at a crypto event or they're in the pub or they're talking to
Grandma and the grandma says, "Hey, you know what I'm thinking about launching this Web3 project. Do you know the best way to go about it?" Then they would say, "Take it away." They would say, "Join your horizon." For sure, because
You know, there's the benefit for founders is that, you know, as soon as you set up a profile, you're actually being welcomed into a community of really rich support and unlike other sort of more traditional, you know, accelerators.
Like the outliers of the world, you know, we we are not taking equity in in these projects, right? What we're really trying to do is create create a platform for connection and really, you know, start up success. So
So, as a founder, you can access learning resources, you can find people, again, mentors, you can get advice, and just make a ton of connections that will help you hopefully be incredibly successful.
Brilliant. Okay, that's perfect. Thank you so much. I think that's a good start when I need to twist my grandma's arm to get it to build on near and near horizon. Now, Laura, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm confident I'm not. But not
Everything is done in house by the foundation right so all of the services that Members of Neahorizon can access they don't directly come from the Neah Foundation itself right you work with service providers and partners so can you can you explain a little bit more about that?
what types of service providers, what types of partners are you working with in order to give founders the best support that they can get? Yeah, absolutely. So we put out actually an open call, so kind of like an RFP for service providers and accelerator partners like Mark
traditional accelerator partners. And we've seen an incredible response. We actually have 150 service providers who have applied to be part of Horizon, which is incredible. And we're seeing really amazing, talented teams who are, are, are amp to, you know, to
support founding teams. And so these the service providers range across marketing, PR and communications product, which includes like mechanism design and tokenomics support as well as go to market and you know really sort of supporting you and thinking through
What is your user acquisitions strategy? How do you think about finding product market fit? And then we also have technical providers who can support with auditing and then also provide overall sort of like architecture advice and console
We have legal service providers who, you know, again, super critical as well as back office finance providers. Again, I think one of the things we've we've heard from it from a ton of founders is that that sort of back office operations can really really
You know, if you don't get it right and so but but is obviously not not the sexiest thing to focus on and not the thing that a founder should should need to be spending time on and so you know partnering with with those like legal and finance providers. We think it's going to be a huge online
And then we're also partnering with traditional accelerator programs like outlier fabric X antler encode club and a handful of others that are going to be providing programming for founders who think that you know that kind of pathway is going to be most helpful for that.
Each of those programs has its own application process and has its own sort of perspective on capital allocation and taking equity. And we're trying to have a good, healthy mix of programs where some provide a
a bunch of investment, take a lot of fair amount of capital, some take none and provide no investment. And so I think really trying to empower the founder and figuring out what is the right path for them. And then lastly, we're
partnering with a number of VCs to also bring them into Horizon so they can start to interact with projects. You know, we're going to be doing IRL events as well, like including pitch days and we actually had one at consensus, which was really exciting.
And wonderful to see the connection that was making that you know founders were able to make with BC's and had some really strong partnerships even just forged from from that event. So we're psyched to continue to do that and just bring people together to see how you know they can help each other.
>> Okay. I was actually at the pitch fest event in consensus. It was wonderful. Yes, plenty of VCs, plenty of builders, plenty of founders. When's the next one, Laura? Can you give us any alpha?
or is it still TBD? It's a little TBD. We're definitely going to be at collision. And so for folks who are in North America, I think that we're going to gear up for that for sure. I think we are also considering doing an event in
June and Chicago in partnership with one of our VC friends, where there would be a sort of like private pitch event and kind of Dragon's Den situation. So a lot more to come in June and July.
is what we're doing up for. And then of course, at our amazing NeurCon, which is going to be, you know, in the latter half of the year, we're definitely going to be doing a big pitchfests there. So super excited about all of that to come.
Okay, well you heard it here first folks keep an eye on the neoproticle Twitter account and of course For everything and anything coming out of horizon the back end of June is collision open Toronto Canada if you didn't yet know by you tickets now and I believe
We have a lot of people who are going to be in the hospital.
will pitch our incredible Web 3 projects to VCs from across the ecosystem. Laura, moving on, I was looking to be in presence of yourself at the town hall back on Wednesday. You did a
It's a wonderful demo of near horizon and how it's all built on the blockchain operating system. A lot of it is on-chain. Wonderful it is. It looked incredible. But I did see that there was near horizon credits.
Can you tell us a little bit more about Neahorizan credits? What are the credits used for? Absolutely. We do have Neahorizan credits, you are right. The idea is that founders can
through the platform apply to get credits that they can then use to pay the service providers who are in the platform. So you could, you know, if you decide you need marketing support or product support and you have credits, you can actually just transfer those credits to the
to the provider and not have to not have to pay out of pocket for those supports. And so the more active you are in the platform, the more you're like updating your profile and putting up your pitch deck and really building out your
overall presence in the platform, the more sort of access you're going to get. And so there is an application process, and then it's also really focused on founders who are very active within the platform and ecosystem.
Okay, brilliant. So I as a founder have set up my profile on near horizon. I've been absolutely beautiful. You've got myself here on the I've got my contact details. You've got my pitch deck. You've got my white pepper. You've got absolutely everything you need. And then I apply to some near horizon credit and somebody's going to
a handsome man deserves some and I can then use them to get marketing support or consultations or the like. Exactly. That sounds pretty simple to me. Super exciting as well.
So, Lauren, just before we move on to a few more broader questions about the blockchain operating system, why you chose to build that, etc. Can you talk us through, I guess, like an end-to-end journey for a founder on near-horizon.
I had to neodotox such a rise and I read the beautiful web page you guys have. I log in, create my profile and then go on. Yeah, totally. So and then and then you really have, you know, a few different options of what you want to what you want to do. So again, we're really trying to center the
founder as the person who's doing obviously doing all the work of creating an amazing product and business and so we want to give them a lot of optionality. And so as a founder, what you could do after creating a profile, you could decide
want to apply to one of our partner programs and you can do that directly through the application through the platform. And then you could also decide that you want to apply for credits. Again, you can do that directly through the platform. Or you could decide, you know, I just want to kind of take a look around
the ecosystem, meet other founders, gain those connections in the community, or I want to take a look at the mentors and the coaches and the service providers. So you can sort of take more of a self-service pathway through the platform as well.
And you know, based on based on kind of your specific needs at the moment that you're at in terms of trajectory, you can kind of make that decision. If you need someone to help you make that decision, that's also where our team comes in, right? So we we're going to have definitely an
the beginning very direct connections with the founders and reach out and really understand sort of what their support needs are and try to help make any warm introductions we can with people who we think are really well positioned to support based on where the founder is.
Okay, wonderful. Thank you very much. For those of you who might be founders within the world of Web 3, you want to know more about Neon Horizon. You want to join, you want to apply to Neon Horizon. I have pinned the wonderful tweet with a wonderful video from Mr. Ben of the
near Horizon team who I know is in the audience right now Ben I love the cowboy hat keep it up so if you want to check it out and you want to get involved you can head to the tweet that is pinned there or alternatively you can head to near org forward slash Horizon Laura let's
Let's talk about the boss, not your direct boss, no mine, but the blockchain operating system that is near protocol. So maybe you can comment a little bit about why you chose to build on the boss on the blockchain operating system.
I'm sure it's for Nea Horizon's home to be that very place. Yeah, absolutely. We're so excited about the blockchain operating system and decided to build on it for a few main reasons. The first is that it provides us with a decentralized distribution channel for
Horizon. So that basically means that we have a more organic form of user acquisition, like founder acquisition because there's actually a place where Horizon is discoverable for all of these founders. And I think we, as we all know, building in Web3, you can often feel like you're building something great.
But nobody knows about it and you don't have a real way of getting it out into the world. And so the operating system really solves that problem. And of course does it in a decentralized way. So you're not paying a company to promote your product.
actually leveraging the sort of organic user ship and community. So that was that was the first big reason. The second was that we've been able to make use of a ton of components that have been built by the community and also contribute to that library. So, you know, the benefit
of being part of a vibrant community of builders is that people are building things that are actually useful all the time when you can just, you know, leverage the composability and boss really like it enables that composability and again, discoverability of things that you need. The third reason is that
We were able to use the existing onboarding experience. So if the user updates their profile, like apps enhance them, we actually get all of the benefit without having to lift a finger, which again, from just a go to market strategy, you know, perspective is huge, because that means it
takes us less time to develop. We can just make use of what users are already doing in the system. And then we also don't have to worry about searchability or indexing because the boss does all of that for us. So it's basically doing a lot of the kind of infrastructure stuff that we would have had to build our
ourselves. And so that has been like a big time saver and obviously money saver as well. And then, you know, lastly, just like we believe everything is better when, you know, people can, everyone can contribute and learn from each other. So, you know, as I like to say, opensource always wins. And so
We really want to be part of building together in this community. 100% hope it's always wins as we've seen and I'm sure it will continue to win. Laura, so Nearize and this is a bit of a curveball question.
I think I already know the answer. So you guys have built out this wonderful application that's accessible to both. How would you feel if somebody came along in 12 months time and three years time and five years time and said, Hey, I want to do something very, very similar.
thoughts, all things near horizon on Chan and ran with it. I mean that'd be awesome. I think we were obviously everything that we're building is is forkable. All our components are available. And so if you have a great idea about how you might want to leverage the stuff that we built and kind of mix
mix it up and do something slightly different but solve a tangential problem. We are super excited about that and we're also always looking for partners in building. So actually in a couple of weeks we are going to be putting out within Horizon on our own
project profile, some contribution requests for Horizon where we're going to look for developers in the community to really help us build. So keep a lookout for that if you are a developer builder who want to support in building this platform with us.
Okay, you heard a hear from us ladies and gentlemen get the word out if they're a founders and then to the horizon if there are build and develop and they want to contribute to the near horizon ecosystem and keep an eye out for news on that over the coming weeks. So the door
Those of us who have headed to near.org and signed up or logged in with a near wallet or even better email address right now with fast auth, you'll see that you land essentially on the social components of the BOS right. So it almost looks like a Twitter feed except it's all
I'm curious, Laura, how does that social aspect of the blockchain operating system fold in to arise and indeed it goes at all? Yeah, absolutely. So, I mean, we believe that one of the major value propositions of both
both the operating system and of horizon is the social component. It's all about making connections and really having the ability to create community and to find your next head of marketing
I think we believe the way to do that is by forging connections and meeting each other. So that is the platform that we're building. So there's a couple of features that are on the roadmap for the operating system that we're particularly excited about.
about. The first is the group feature because we're going to make a ton of use of that and allow founders to create groups with other founders, backers to create groups around the verticals that they're particularly interested in. People who want to
you know, really focus on best practices around the go-to market. Like, you know, all of that will become possible once that feature is live. And then the other feature we're super psyched about is chat. So just being able to leverage chat throughout the entire experience so you don't have to go
off-chain and offline to talk to each other. So social is really woven throughout the fabric of what we're building. And so that focus from the operating system is so important for us and we are loving it. So it's embedded.
I can't wait to see how those groups work and what comes of them. I think the correctness of Laura, part of the ethos is two minds are better than one. If you can be the connector between
founders and builders and VCs and the ecosystem then you really have the potential to build on the metrics are mesh which continues to grow and grow and grow. Absolutely. I think what we've seen
been the major unlock for founders who have made it big is it's all about people right it's like you do have the right team do you have a team that's you know aligned with your vision and and and ready and capable and able to really to really meet that so we're trying to you know facilitate that
that kind of team building and connection within her as in. >> I speak on behalf of every single person I hope in this Twitter space today, I certainly speak on behalf of all
the founders of builders who are looking into horizon right now. But what's next, Laura? I mean, you guys have launched that consensus last week. It was a wonderful time. What's next on the horizon road map? If you consider it. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So I think we're
We're really excited about integrating some of those features. I just mentioned in terms of groups and chat and then the other pieces were going to be building out the backer sort of journey a lot more deeply so that backers can actually have a more curated perspective on the projects that they're interested in.
and working with and supporting. And we are also going to be building out more of a like a Q&A section so that founders can ask questions and actually just source amazing knowledge from the community directly.
So it's sort of like an open space and open forum where you can have that kind of dialogue are all things that we're considering. And then we're also thinking about, you know, implementing a feature where you can get sort of a soft, you can often to getting a soft intro to other people.
and the ecosystem. So, you know, a really good way to just sort of make new connections. And I always find that when I speak to, you know, new people, I learn so much from every conversation. And so I think just facilitating that in a way that
So we're almost a little like a Tinder right for founders where you can sort of say yes, I'm psyched to meet this person. So those are some of the big features that are on the roadmap and then from more of a like programs side, we are.
We're going to be continuing to add backers and get them onboarded and get our service providers onboarded into the platform as well. And immediately we just launched last week and so there's definitely some bugs.
that exists that we're squashing right now and just trying to make the overall user experience a bit better and more seamless. So if you do have any issues as you're trying to set things up, please, please feel free or reach out to our team who can support you.
All right, that's amazing. Well, you gotta give first guys a go ahead on over to Laura and the team and the rising and having issues and questions. I do have a few more questions for you Laura and this one is. You could just serve to.
I guess so when you ran us through the near horizon demo in the town hole and Wednesday, it was almost a pathway that founders could take to either apply for an accelerator or choose a self-guided program.
earlier, you mentioned that Horizon is not at Accelerator in and of itself, but can you tell us a little bit more about that path that founders and builders can choose to take, whether it be an application directly with an Accelerator or a self-guided program? Yeah, absolutely.
I think if you are applying to one of our partners, then there's an application process where you need to provide much more information to that program so that they can determine if it's a good fit based on what they're focused on and where we're
with our partners in order to facilitate that. But the self-guided pathway is the one that is fueled by credits and is really one of your own making where a founder can say, "I have an amazing tech-capital
I don't really need help building, but what I do need help with is like all of my legal and I also need some you know some token design support. And so I'm specifically just gonna go out and and make a request to the community to help me with those things. And then what a vendor or an individual
person can do is respond to that request and say, "Hey, I am brilliant at marketing and I can support you." Here's my details, here's how much I charge, here's how long I think this is going to take, and then you can actually create a contract within the platform.
yourself. And then once you're done with the working with that provider or that person, the two, each party can actually give each other feedback too. So we're going to leverage the on-chain capabilities towards really a social graph so you can start to see which of the providers have been
you know providing the best service to founders and are there specific you know kinds of founders who you know make sense to work with specific service providers so really leveraging like that the reputation all piece that's that's available because we built it on chain and and making you know make
can use of that. So giving founders a little bit more signal over time. So that's kind of the self-service pathway. And I think we've talked to a number of founders who, you know, they're just not in a place where they want to sort of give up ownership over their
company which makes total sense and a lot of accelerators ask that of you. And so I think the self-guided pathway is really intended for those folks who can find the support kind of they need on their own and forge their own pathway.
Okay, that's perfect. So as a service provider or perhaps even a VC, I'm going to get read on how much value I add to Females and builders. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So the founders are going to almost like an Uber rating, right? The two way rating. So
The founder gets to say, "Here was my experience, give them four stars, five stars." Then the service provider gets to also rate how it was working with the founder. There's a little bit of accountability on both sides because we obviously want the relationship to work for both sides of that equation.
Okay, perfect. So everybody is actually incentivized to do the best job that they can, particularly if you're a service provider, if you're providing services to a founder or a builder, then you're going to want to do the time good job because you don't want to get that feedback and you want to keep that flyable going, right? Exactly, exactly.
Okay, that's perfect. All right, Laura, we're about halfway through what I'd like to do. Um, halfway through any Twitter space is give our wonderful speakers the chance to chill what they are building. So if people want to know more about near horizon, where do they go? If people want to
apply to get involved, where do they go, what do they need to do, feel free to plug the products from end to end. Yeah, amazing. So really the place to go is near.org/horizon. So it's pretty simple and then you'll be able to really have everything you need to get started.
going to need to create an account if you don't already have one on a near account. But because of FastOff, which is a new feature that was just rolled out with the operating system, you actually don't need to create a wallet immediately. If you don't want to, you can actually leverage your email address.
can set up sort of an account name and then get in pretty seamlessly. So not a ton of friction in terms of onboarding there is the hope. And so yeah, near.org/heridethen is the place to go for all of our needs.
All right, perfect. You've got it here. First theme that is a pin tweet in this Twitter spares which you can head to. It's got a link to the website. It's got a wonderful video which explains near horizon. In an audio visual format, so do enjoy that.
Laura, I'm going to ask a few more broader questions before we go into the final hurdle of this Twitter space. Can you tell us a little bit more about how the response has been, I guess, behind the scenes, right? So everybody can see
the social media comments, the telegram message, the discord message views, but how have I guess VCs, how have service providers and how founders responded to this product? Yeah, that's a great question and we actually we got some amazing feedback and just ability to speak
with people in person at consensus last week, which was incredible. So I would say, you know, what we've seen is these sees are really excited about this because what it's going to do is really help them from a deal flow standpoint be able to, you know, pinpoint kind of who do they really want to talk to and have an immediate
connection with. And one of the features they're most excited about is actually having access to like user information and like account information for projects where you can see you know what are there monthly active accounts like you know are they are they growing in the number of accounts that are
that are joining their product. And that's something that is not always really easy to find or to figure out. So I think we're the horizon is providing a bunch of value to the season. What we're hoping is that that means is that more
more and more kind of you know, backers are going to be wanting to join our ecosystem and wanting to meet the incredible projects that are coming through because we know that that's a huge pain point for founders, right? You have this great product but you know you want to be discovered and you want
to get support. So that's it. That was, you know, a really, really positive response. We're partnering really closely with a handful of factors so that we're continuing to build the product as they wanted and they want to use it, right? So, so that also I think we'll hopefully really help
make sure that it's meeting their needs and therefore they're able to support and meet the needs of founders. From the founder standpoint, I think we got a lot of responses that, oh, this is really different than what I thought it was going to be, which was more traditional,
And I think they were really excited about the ability for them to take the reins in decision making and they can say, "I have a specific need. I can come here and solve that specific need." Or, you know, "I don't quite know what I need right now, and so I'm just going to find people who can
support me in making decisions and asking the right questions. And that's really so critical. And oftentimes I think a lot of founders that we've spoken to are just like, you know, it's a little lonely when you're when you can be lonely when you're building. And so that's that's what we're, you know, we're trying to solve.
trying to get that community piece to that journey. So it's a overall, you know, like very positive responses. I think people are excited. Of course, it's a new product and so there's going to be, you know, a little bit of buggyness, but we've also seen a lot of, you know, people who are willing to kind of
with us and give us feedback and where we love that. So any feedback you have on our thoughts on, you know, this feature would make this platform so much more useful. We are, you know, have wide open ears for that. And if you want to get involved in that way, we actually have a beta group of projects
of founders who we've been working really closely with to build to give us feedback, take a look at our prototypes and help us ideate on new features. So you're interested in getting involved at that level, we're also excited for more people to join that group.
Yeah, absolutely. I think that's a really interesting point that you meant that building and being a founder can be a lonely endeavor and it goes back to this notion that it's all about people, right? We don't have anything. And something that people refer to as almost like the
the zero of the web free world, right? It's people then it's blockchain because without people, I mean, there's nothing left, right? Absolutely, absolutely. And I think that that's the whole real like, ethos, right? Of what we're, what we're building here at Nier and just generally in the space, right? We want it's, it's really all about
community and it's all about us, you know, building together and finding ways to use what one another are building to make everything that we're building better. So that's always what excites me the most about building and open source communities. It's that that ethos and community drive towards success.
So we're trying to just bring, you know, bring that and facilitate that in one place where you can actually meet people who can help you. 100% and we're all in the same team, right? That's the whole ethos of open source contributions. Now, you know,
final 20 minutes also Laura I have been scaring the near.org/horizon website for some interesting things we can discuss. Now I see a contributor section where you can contribute and earn as an individual. So am I writing saying that anybody in the Web 3
and I guess beyond regardless of what their skill set is, considerable profile and then they can work with projects or perhaps enders, service providers in order to deliver whatever their skill set might be to whom ever needs it.
We're actually really excited. We're I think this is this is one of potentially the big unlocks that we hope the platform is going to provide, which is we've met a number of people who are interested in getting into web 3 maybe they're coming from a web 2 background maybe they're an amazing engineer
but they just have never actually dabbled that deeply on chain. And so what we think is going to be huge for those people is providing them an opportunity to work fractionally on a project that they're interested in. And from a
You know, often you're not actually ready to hire a full time person on your team like you don't have the capital for that. You don't have like all of your management systems set up and what you really need are kind of contractors who can, you know, provide 10 hours, 20 hours a week towards building
what you're building and so we're actually partnering with a bunch of freelance agencies and platforms and we're going to connect those pools of talent to the horizon platform so that founders can put out a contribution request for arrest
developer 20 hours a week and then we can connect that request with that large pool of freelance talent who can then meet that need and I think the goal is also through that to you know to create more builders. So someone who's you know not ready to leave their full-time job yet is kind of dabbling on the side
We hope we can really hook them and get them super excited about what everyone's building here and then be inspired to either join full-time on a team or build something themselves too. And through those partnerships, I would say one of our big focuses is also on engagement.
inclusion because, you know, we don't see enough women building. We don't see enough people from underrepresented groups building. And so we're in talks with a couple of these freelance agencies that particularly target underrepresented groups and making sure we can
you know, bring them into this ecosystem and you know, provide them with opportunity to start to partner and build what they want to build. So we're really excited about that like fractional work opportunity, both from a founder standpoint and from just like that freelancer standpoint as well.
Right, so actually the scope of me horizon is even wider than I think myself and some other people might understand it to be because it's going to be really it's all encompassing right if individuals can get involved and join and
expose themselves to the world of Web 3. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And the way that they're going to do that is through working meaningfully on projects, right? So it's not like they're just kind of hanging out and seeing what's happening. It's like, you know, we're building here. We're all trying to solve problems.
problems for real people and you know we need the best talent in order to be able to do that. So let's get that talent in and help you know help our incredible founders be successful. 100% let's do it and we need everybody's help so
listening, do spread the word to the entrepreneurs, the innovators, the founders and the builders about near the rise. And okay Laura, I have one final question. Well, I actually have two final questions, but the next question, the final question is a little abstract.
the next question is if people head to Neon Horizon now they can see the wonderful Learn tab on the left. Now this is a repository of resources, founders, you've got things on how to plan a minimum-viral product to product market fit.
Can you tell us a little bit more about the goal of the learn section? Like what's it trying to achieve and where will it end up? Yeah, absolutely. Shout out to Ben who is who is here on on our states right now who is the the owner of this
actually. And so the goal here is to provide a synchronous kind of learning resources to answer a lot of the questions that come up time and time again from our founders.
And so we have one section that's focused on business fundamentals, which is, as you were mentioning, David, is, you know, we have sort of product, like, how do you think about product market fit? There's essential startup advice from Y Combinator, how do you design a good pitch deck?
So, you know, tools and tips to around really the fundamentals of just sort of your business model and your plan. We have a growth and marketing section that has a really amazing toolkit in it. We also have a recruiting and legal section that has a
legal checklist that gives you an overview of the regulatory best practices, looking at what a DAAP legal structure could be having a safe template when you're thinking about going out and talking to investors.
a whole technical section that also gives you access to the amazing repository of documentation when you're building. So this is really meant to be this, you know, a big sort of a resource library and we've curated it so that we think these are kind of the sort of like top five to 10
things that you need most, you know, immediately. And then of course you can go out to our wiki, which has a ton more resources on it as well and sort of do your own discovery. But the learn section is a little bit more curated with the goal of just getting you started.
All right, perfect. Well, thank you so much for that wonderful overview of all things near horizon. We have just over 10 minutes left. So this is my favorite part of any Twitter space that I have the privilege to host. Now for the next two.
2-3-4-5 minutes. However long you want to take, I am going to pass the microphone over to you Laura and only you. You can talk about absolutely anything you want. You can talk about Nia Horizon if you want. You can talk about the best way to fall asleep.
your favorite type of green tea is the best place you've ever traveled. You can talk about your parents, your sisters, your brothers, your dogs, your lizards, your owls, Tinder, Bumble, you can talk about absolutely anything in the world. It's all yours up to five minutes. Take it away at Laura Cunningham.
Thank you, David. Well, this is funny. I'm not sure. Let's see. What are the things that are on my mind these days? So a couple of things I've really been thinking a lot about is kind of the future of work. And what is the future of work?
like and I think that Web3 is actually is the future of work and I think particularly in what we were talking about a little earlier in terms of these opportunities to work in a more fractional way. So when I kind of look around and I've done, I've been doing a bunch of
reading on this as well. I think we see people wanting to take a lot more control over their lives and architect what they want their day to day to be. And I think having the fractional work sort of opportunities allows people to be
more globally connected and also to have that control over how do you know how do you want to live your life. And so I'm feeling just really you know excited about about Horizon in terms of supporting that and then I also just I think I think this speaks
is amazing because I think it provides tremendous opportunity to be a part of something sort of bigger than you and also to have more control over how you want to live. So that's something I've been thinking a lot about and
I think alongside that I've also been thinking a lot about this piece about inclusion and representation and what we can do to access and support underrepresented groups and people and bring them to the table.
obviously, you know, it's it's I'm I'm constantly in meetings with only men and usually only white men and that's that is something that I think we you know I think we all want to want to change and so again I see a tremendous opportunity for for
this space to play a huge role in that. So, you know, just overall a lot of like optimism about what we collectively are building and the opportunities that's providing for people all over the world. And then finally, I've been thinking a lot about, you know, about AI and what
that is going to be, you know, to do to to work as well and to opportunity and, you know, been been trying to do my own research on, you know, what what everyone thinks is sort of going to happen. Of course, no one knows. But I also
I'm really interested in the fact that blockchain can really be the thing that is for the post AI world, right? Because it really allows you to continue to have ownership and then own your identity.
the own kind of truth in a way that I think AI can be, can complicate things and make it more challenging. So anyway, those are three things I've been thinking about and I've also been thinking about how excited I am for my husband to come home from his business trip because
because I've been with my two kids alone and that has been fun and also exhausting. And so I'm psyched for the weekend. I'm psyched for him to get back and be able to have some help with raising my little monkeys. So those are things I'm thinking about.
Well, Laura, thank you so much. That was a wonderful answer. I love asking that question because it gets to peel away. I have a business side of things a little bit and we get to understand that there are real people behind everything that's being built and near horizon is not an exception to the
that was absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much. One final question. I promise you that this is the last one. You already answered it halfway through. Where can people go to find out more? Where can people go to apply? What do they need to do to get involved with
Nia Parisen. Amazing. Yes. So near dot org backlash horizon. And again, if you're having trouble getting on boarded, please reach out. We are here to support. It is a new platform. There's going to be some bumps and we just asked you to, you know, work with us to meet.
the product better and let us know if you're having any trouble. So thank you all. It's been great. I wish that we could hear from all of you too and have this be a discussion, but I think there's going to be a lot of other moments for that as well.
Yeah, absolutely say the word we can spend an air mail if we can get the questions in we can get the community on the microphone as well Laura, but until then thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much for your effort in building the future of work with me and Ryzen and thank you on behalf of every
single one about audience members today. You've been a wonderful guest for. Thank you so much. Thank you so much and thanks everyone for joining. Really appreciate it. Thank you all. Have wonderful days. Enjoy your weekends. Don't get too drunk, but also at the same time, too. Goodbye.