Iris Nevins on Using Web3 to Empower IRL Communities

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Today we have Iris Nevins, the co-founder and CEO of Umba Daima, a creative NFT Studio which also houses Black NFT Art and Unseen Gallery. Before becoming a tech and art entrepreneur, she was a former teacher and community activist who eventually became a software engineer, working at companies like Mailchimp and Vox Media. In Feb 2021 she left to start Umba Daima, focused on building a multi-cultural ecosystem of educational & social web3 experiences.

Timecodes:

0:00 - Intro

1:07 - Web3 Clubhouse beginnings

3:51 - Iris's background

11:55 - Umba Daima's genesis

12:25 - Experience of managing artists

14:29 - What's the scope of building spaces in web3

16:19 - Umba Daima as an NFT Studio

16:37 - Iris's upcoming projects

21:09 - Will Umba Daima have its own token

23:34 - Advice entering web3 from a nontraditional tech background

26:24 - How to work in web3

28:41 - How IRL events can change the way we onboard people into web3?

32:42 - The evolution of Umba Daima?

35:47 - How to fund raising $2M?

42:31 - Where to find out more about Iris

44:27 - What's your favorite NFT