ZEROPOD #18 - Live and Unlonely with Grace and Brian Guan, founders of Unlonely.app

Episode 18 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast is a special one because it’s the first time we’ve ever streamed an interview live. We did so on the Unlonely web3 streaming platform, which only seemed natural, as ZEROPOD’s Toady Hawk and ProfWerder were hosting Grace and Brian Guan, the founders of Unlonely!

We talked to them about their individual onchain journeys, why they decided to tackle the difficult issue of decentralized web 3 streaming, their recent hit web series “Love on Leverage”, what’s coming next, and more!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - We do it LIVE

00:30 - ZEROPOD Intro

00:45 - Grace’s story

02:13 - The Sibling dynamic

03:38 - “Big Tech Corporate Girlie”

04:00 - Crypto-pilled

04:38 - Wanting to solve problems seen at Google and YouTube

05:28 - Kitty Cameo

06:32 - Enter Brian

08:10 - Early Unlonley days

11:16 - Love to Farcaster

14:33 - Why Unlonely?

16:39 - The Frend.tech Effect (the importance of cashflow positive)

18:54 - Show, don’t tell

22:00 - Any legal concerns with in-chat betting?

25:00 - Gamified streaming

27:49 - Love on Leverage

31:00 - WorldCoin Orb Rizz

32:51 - Love on Leverage Success

36:38 - The Rizz Olympics

39:22 - What is RIZZ?

41:08 - Network Rizz

42:00 - Rizzommendations

44:00 - “Unlonely - It’s in the name.”

47:00 - Esports opportunity?

50:00 - Impromptu biz dev sesh

51:43 - Privy, PWA and onboarding

53:00 - Content is King

55:20 - Pay-Per-Rizz

55:55 - A decentralized alternative for content creators

56:44 - Auditor-gate

1:00:00 - Unfundable.eth

1:05:00 - Guans on Nouns

1:08:00 - The value of being contrarian

1:09:00 - Grace flashes some Nouns swag

1:10:00 - Brian being NSFW

1:11:49 - Brian coming for DWR

1:15:00 - Outro

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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody.

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ZEROPOD is a video podcast for people who enjoy Ethereum. Each episode, we sit down with an interesting builder or creator in the onchain space to learn more about their personal story and what they are working on. Available to watch on YouTube, Spotify/RSS and onchain on pods.media/zeropod. Released with zero copyright, please remix and reuse our content creatively with attribution.

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