Mike Purvis is an engineer, builders, and awesome human being. Early NEAR Core, co-founder at Croncats, and current contributor to Cosmos.

Some of the topics we cover on this wide ranging conversation with Mike:

• Origins Story - Mike joining NEAR early days (2020) - working alongside founding team, hustle beast mode on.
• Serendipity - magic happens when people are bored together. Importance of IRL event - we are getting a castle in Burgundy!
• Founder’s Journey - difference between being a salaried employee and a founder.
• Product Market Fit v Value Creation at an early stage ecosystem.
• Importance of User Experience - deconstructing what needs to be true for mass adoption to occur.
• Market Trends - group think, follow the leader: everyone giving out grants, rise of the multi-chain raidooors (Scammers). Now everyone is too tight with grants - how can we support the builders?!
• Extinction events - setting a deadline for differentiation.
• Community and culture - in search for a tribe. Soft skills that matter.
• Origins Story of Croncats!
• Automation and Long Running Smart Contracts
• AVB shills a few product ideas as bait - #getMikeBack
• Governance - decentralising tech v decentralising human structures. The return of the benevolent king?!

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