Mission DeFi - EP 34 - Zachary Dash & the BlockZero community are building a better YCombinator for DeFi with an amazing backstory of how they started
Zachary Dash has an epic tale from working in the sports industry to being a leader of a project in DeFi that is working to change how projects launch and become successful. The story has all the classic startup underpinnings of attempts and failure along with accidental success that grew into a powerful community with powerful ideals. You are going to love listening to this story and more importantly, you are going to love learning so many great lessons about how to get from where you are to where you want to be.
XIO / BlockZero is creating a powerful model to help projects succeed and it definitely deserves more attention based on how they approach building and growing. Very powerful model.
Name of Project: BlockZero Labs
Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/ZacharyDash
Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/BlockzeroLabs
Project URL: https://blockzerolabs.io/
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