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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
• Dutch auctions
• On-chain revenue splits
• A tokenized referral program

We've worked with artists, 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)
• How Crypto Projects Like Loot are Rewriting the Playbook for Building Communities (Means of Creation podcast)
• The Next Crypto Cycle - Web3, DAOs, and NFTs (The Deep End podcast by On Deck)
• 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, contributor, and early investor in a few DAOs like Fingerprints DAO, Bright Moments, Friends With Benefits, Seed Club, Shark DAO, Cabin DAO, and Society DAO, 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, IG or email me at patrick.x.rivera@gmail.com.

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Thanks for reading :~)