The psychology of entrepreneurship and reimagining collaboration behind Web3 analytics, with Flipside Crypto CEO Dave Balter

<p>Lex chats with Dave Balter about the complexities of building data products on the blockchain and the importance of understanding human relationships and reality when building startups. They also discuss Flipside Crypto – a platform that builds business intelligence via a suite of analytics tools that provide insights into user behaviors, developer activities, and financial health, to crypto organizations – and MetricsDAO – a community of Web3 data analysts who provide blockchain projects with on-demand data insights and tooling. Additionally, they touch on replacing Excel with ChatGPT and on-chain  smart contract data, and how to evaluate Web3 projects, as well as the future of how the value chain stacks on top of data and analytics to actually drive decisions and potentially drive automated decisions</p><p> </p><p>MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION</p><p> </p><p>Flipside Crypto's website: https://bit.ly/3KhgCPT</p><p>MetricDAO's website: https://bit.ly/3MqYOES</p><p>Dave's LinkedIn profile: https://bit.ly/43iT5qK</p><p>Dave's Twitter profile: https://bit.ly/3zE4rYv</p><p> </p><p>Topics: crypto, blockchain, analytics, data, AI, DAO, decentralized autonomous organizations</p><p> </p><p>Companies: MetricsDAO, Flipside, Flipside crypto, ChatGPT, Excel</p><p> </p><p>ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT</p><p> </p><p>🔥Subscribe to the Fintech Blueprint newsletter to stay at the forefront of Fintech and DeFi: https://bit.ly/3hyhlC2</p><p> </p><p>🤝 Partner with Fintech Blueprint through sponsorships: https://bit.ly/3UZllsV</p><p> </p><p>👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>TIMESTAMPS</p><p> </p><p>1’23”: Dave’s foundational experiences & identifying some key threads that were formative to his experience</p><p> </p><p>9’01”: The two elements that make startups difficult in general</p><p> </p><p>13’22”: Flipside crypto: what it is, how it started, and how it all came together from a technical standpoint</p><p> </p><p>16’46”: How difficult it is to collect high quality data in order to be successful and wh