Ep. 47 - The Art of The Possible w. Alex Chiocchi, Chief Product Office @ Pagoda

Wild User Interviews Podcast (Wuipod)

Alex Chiocchi is the Chief Product Officer at Pagoda. Prior to joining Pagoda, Alex was en early LinkedIn employee, founded and exited an AI startup (that used one of Illia's open source libraries), and worked at Kraken. On this wide ranging conversation we cover many things, including:

* What makes a good product - frameworks for building successful applications.
* Tension between Product and Engineering.
* Challenges of building towards a long term vision while also trying to survive in short term.
* How to recruit top talent at a grassroots level
* Current limitations of Javascript SDK and upcoming VM 2.0.
* Beyond Words. Pagoda needs to show real use cases and 'show the tech under the hood' (open source).
* Communicating through code. Creating an inviting environment, NEAR as the Builder's Blockchain
* Pragmatic Decentralisation - the case for smaller teams of top contributors.
* Insight into Pagoda future Pricing model (Open Source, Paid for Hosted, Innovative Ways to capture value)
* Tokenomics for the Attention Economy
* and more...!

Resources
* Pagoda Website - https://www.pagoda.co/
* Alex Personal Website - https://www.alexchiocchi.com/

* Building NEAR Protocol SuperApps (Banyan Collective) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n7uhqAqsQo&t=3s
* Onboarding Millions of Users to NEAR. Alex Presentation @ ETH Denver 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aLifgUujAY
* The Upcoming Renaissance of SuperApps. Alex Presentation @ ETH Denver 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n7uhqAqsQo&t=3s
* What NEAR's BOS can do for Enterprise and Builder, Consensus 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR2QlP79Tcg

Follow on Social

https://twitter.com/AlexChiocchi
https://near.org/near/widget/ProfilePage?accountId=keyokey.near

https://twitter.com/PagodaPlatform