Builder Buddies #1

Welcome to Builder Buddies

Hey friend! 👋

Welcome to the place where builders - tech-optimists, entrepreneurs, ambitious but humble and risk-taking people - come to find the tools they need to build their web3 experiences.

Builder Buddies has come to life to match underrepresented humble builders with the best web3 work opportunities out there and also give you the inspiration and tools you need to take that first step.

Every week you'll get:

✨1 Builder Success Story

✨2 Web3 Career Tips

✨3 Web3 Work Opportunities

Let's do this.

One Story

Joey Primiani, Folio, Los Angeles, CA

Builder Buddies (BB): How would you define the current point of your career life cycle?

Joey Primiani (JP): Web3 world is all very exciting. When I first started my career in Silicon Valley, I felt the same way about social media and Web2. The hope and optimism is alive to create amazing things and solve real problems in teh space. 

BB: When and why did you start exploring web3 as a career path?

JP: I've always been fascinated with artist communities, since I got into design and photography since DeviantArt and Tumblr communities. I felt there was a real opportunities to create a new type of artist community with Folio and make real money for creators in new and exciting ways. 

BB: What were your main struggles while entering web3?

JP: Most people know the problems getting into the space is the friction and poor user experience. Over time, the tools will get better and we hope to pioneer easier and simpler to use tools for the masses to make it more accessible to all. 

BB: What's your biggest professional accomplishment?

JP: I'm very proud of many products I've created and especially the patents I've filed to create the world I would like to see. 

BB: What was your biggest web3 mistake?

JP: Everything is trial and error learning. I think of it more as a sandbox and free to experiment.

BB: Who have been the most influential people in your web3 journey?

JP: Specifically working with Nicola Formichetti, Lady Gaga's creative director and fashion director icon has been incredible. We've pioneered new projects, including our most recent one called Nicozine via Folio, a new type of fashion web3 digital magazine. 

BB: What investment brought you the most return in web3?

JP: Relationship building on Twitter and in IRL

BB: How can people support you and what you’re building?

JP: I'm on instagram: @officialjp

2 Tips

🛖Tap into a community

Community is the web3 buzzword, yes, but it is for a reason. A few of the best things of the web3 space have to do with its border-less nature and horizontal structure, which essentially means that anyone is able to become a member of a any given community.

So, we'd say that your first and simple step in web3 is definitely to join and participate in communities that, for some reason, resonate with what you want to do in life. Join Discord servers, attend Community Calls, follow people and engage on Twitter - it's as simple as that.

🤓Commit to learning

Web3 is still in its early days (even if some people may say otherwise). There is still a lot of space for innovation, deep thinking and questioning and even feedback on existing projects and ideas. This early stage also means that things evolve and change at speed of light so keeping up with it is a task in itself.

Commit to a 15 minute daily learning routine that will help you better understand what's going on, learn new trends and even build you into a - much needed - thinker within the space.

3 Opportunities

1. Community Manager - Compute Over Data - Protocol Labs - See More

2. Engineering Team Leader - uTrust - See More

3. Office Manager - Celo Foundation - See More

Are you a web3 builder or do you know one that would like to share their web3 story? We are working on the next numbers of the Builder Buddies and we would love to feature you in one of them! Reach out at [email protected] for more details.