2 years ago

The Web3 economy has been sending signals that leaving Web 2.0 jobs might be risky since sometime in May 2022. Another commonality between that early period of Web 0 and Web3 is the siren song drawing people from their “safe” jobs inside large companies, like IBM and Microsoft at the time, to pursue something completely different.

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, and Alphabet, Google’s parent, are both https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/meta_google_layoffs/, which makes a career in Web 0 less certain.

I see a great deal of opportunity for Web3 to make some positive changes to the way the web works.

I asked Varadhan about the differences between leading an engineering team at a company like Amazon vs. leading a team building for Web3.