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Tristan Pollock | Communities of the future will probably rely on blockchain

Head of Community at CTO.ai, ClimateVC Fellow. VC at 500Startups. Founded Storefront and Social Earth.

Aug 23, 2021
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Tristan shared his vision about the future that kept me thinking. He talks about how blockchain can become the fundamental layer of online relations and my mind just resists it. I don’t want a world where everything has monetary incentives.

Our current online society is powered by likes and the follower count. So people work for free just to get an emoji of approval from other people.

Would you believe 10 years ago that you’d be excited to spend hours a week on this? But you do, we all do and it is normal. Sort of…

Lera sighs that this is some creepy ad. And I am listening to Tristan and am thinking - I don’t like the compensation and collective value-focused version of our future online normality. But then is our likes and dopamine powered normality much better?

The episode is more than dreams about how blockchain is the future - it may or may not be it!

We confront Tristan with crypto critique, throw our naïve skepticism and he’s chill. He is aware of this all, he has been thinking about it and has clear concise answers. Sometimes these answers are not easy to take:

To do something with crypto one must have a community or be popular somehow.

It is neither good nor bad, that’s how things work. In 2021 pretty much everyone must transform their social media following into a community or drown in the noise and ads.

We end the episode talking about his mom and the book Tristan’s family has published. This leaves a sweet aftertaste of hope in my heart 🍰.

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Links:

  • Tristan on Angel List

  • How creators can share revenue

  • How creators start and grow communities

  • Why are you pushing yourself to the limits and beyond?

The drunk stream is next Friday, August 27.

Lera thought it would be funny to fundraise for a “drunk stream”… Instant regret but yeah, Lera and I are recording the next Ohayo podcast episode live with booze.

You can vote on what we drink (click):

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So how do we get drunk on Friday during the livestream?
8:42 PM ∙ Aug 23, 2021

Everyone who supported or will support us automagically gets the @barista ☕ role to access the call with us in the #baristas channel.

You can support us here (even 1 EUR is fine) to get the @barista ☕ role until Friday if you'd like to join the hangout too.


The Twitter thread with The Communities Show speakers for you to find who to follow. And these amazing people are our next guests:

  • Rick Turoczy, PIE

  • Steph Smith, growth marketer, writer, and indie maker

  • Laís de Oliveira, On Deck

  • Erin Mikail Staples, Orbit

  • Tersha Willis, terrible.group

  • Pauline Narvas, Gitpod

  • Yuval Yarden, Venwise

  • Jenny Weigle, Chief Community Officer & Community Strategy Consultant

Thanks for supporting us!
We’re figuring partnerships and deals at the moment. Reply if you have something on your mind ✨

Offer from the partners

  • Consolto feels like Zoom meets Calendly for $59 lifetime

  • Swipebucket is a nice tool for digital gardening

  • More discounts and app sales

  • Or just get $10 to shop at AppSumo

  • Tools for Book Authors

The Community Show Hosts:

Community builders and digital content creators. Available for contract work.

  • Lera: artist, full-time gen z, queen 👑

  • Anna: founder, writer, engineer 👩🏻‍🔬

  • Olle: tech, relations, occasional cringe 🎥

  • Piotr: very likeable man of many talents 🧉


Community Design Program

Lera and I have rolled out a draft of our community design program.

We’re polishing it, getting feedback, changing bits. But you can take a look and reply to this email if you want to have your say

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