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My name is Patrick Rivera and I'm a software engineer, writer, and investor. I currently work at Mirror, a crypto protocol helping creators and communities build businesses. It's like if Kickstarter, Patreon, and Substack had a crypto baby. That's Mirror.
Over the past few months, we've shipped:
- A decentralized publishing protocol
- Tokenized crowdfunding
- NFT auctions
- NFT editions
- On-chain revenue splits
- A tokenized referral program
We've worked with filmmakers, writers, open source projects, musicians, e-sports teams, grant giving DAOs, party DAOs, and more.
Previously, I was a growth engineer at Instacart and a lead growth engineer at a DeFi startup called Dharma.
In my free time, I write about the intersection of crypto, creators, and communities.
Here are some of my most popular posts:
- A Presentation on Crypto Fundamentals and NFTs
- Come for the Creator, Stay for the Economy
- Community DAOs
- Designing Internet-Native Economies: A Guide to Crypto Tokens (A16Z Future)
- The Next Crypto Cycle - Web 3.0, DAOs, and NFTs (The Deep End podcast by On Deck)
- How Crypto Projects Like Loot are Rewriting the Playbook for Building Communities (Means of Creation podcast)
- Tips for Creators Getting Into Crypto
- Crypto-native Newsletter Businesses
- The Emerging Internet Renaissance (an interview done by a friend)
- Internet Renaissance Vibez
I'm also a member of a few DAOs like FingerprintsDAO, Seed Club, and Friends With Benefits, among others.
These DAOs focus on things like helping creators and communities launch social tokens, collect rare NFTs of on-chain generative art, build custom smart contracts and tools for artists, and more.
I think DAOs like these are going to become some of the most influential online communities over the next decade as they amass billion dollar treasuries / market caps and serve as incubators for the best engineers, artists, and builders in the space. I wrote about this here.
If you want to get in touch, say hi on Twitter or email me at patrick.x.rivera@gmail.com.
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