Backdrop founder Joey DeBruin sits down with Jesse Pollak, the creator of Base, Coinbase's L2 and Conner Ruhl, a senior engineer at Stability AI to talk about why open tech matters in frontier technologies. This episode was recorded as a part of 100.builders, a four week program to support people building open tech in crypto and AI. Chapters | Timestamps:00:00:44 Intro
00:04:38 On builder energy
00:08:05 Building without writing code
00:16:41 The case for shipping imperfect products
00:22:30 Scalability challenges of open source AI
00:27:25 Embracing open source culture
00:32:11 Hardware accessibility.
00:37:03 Building consumer products on-chain.
00:40:47 AI and crypto revolution.
00:46:19 APIs for getting started. Joey's takeaways - https://www.flyingpenguins.io/p/small-matters-in-open-tech
Relevant Links: Backdrop - https://backdrop.so/ Backdrop on Twitter - https://twitter.com/withBackdrop 100 Builders - 100.builders Joey on Twitter - https://twitter.com/joey_debruin Jesse on Twitter - https://twitter.com/jessepollak Conner on Twitter - https://twitter.com/connerruhl The Backdrop podcast is produced by the team at Spectral.