Re:Envisioning Web3 | Community Building and Retention

After being ribbed for the late/shifted start, Jed leveled with the room about being buried in work and only half-wanting to be there — "I don't even want to be here, sorry. Go fuck yourselves. But I'm still here. So let's get it." Delivered as pure deadpan, it set an affectionate, self-roasting mood that carried the whole space.

Jed queued a Gary Vee clip landing on "whoever loves first wins," then summed it up in his own register: the whole game is whether you "actually give a fuck," which is genuinely hard for a lot of people here — "but a lot of people also do."

Sho (@AgogoKaren) pushed back gently on the "everyone's selfish" framing, saying her corner of Web3 — "six or seven communities" all supporting each other — proves the opposite, and that the crew can be role models. Jed immediately clocked the number ("last time I couldn't…") and joked there are "like a thousand and what three" — a callback bit that got the biggest laugh of the hour.

Jed posed the question he wanted the room to sit on: what's the difference between knowing your customer and building your community? Kev answered cleanly — a customer shows up once or twice, a community keeps coming back, adds value, and tells others — and framed consistency as "a superpower," comparing it to mom-and-pop shops that "go viral over time" only after a long, invisible grind.

Before jumping to another space, Kev walked through Klano's "watch and collect" cards: a pre-token-launch pack sale at $10 each, every pack pegged to Hebu tokens/points (1:1 to future tokens), with a gamified system for completing storylines. He showed a clip of a kid naming characters and moments as the engagement hook, and teased a bigger reveal next week.

Jed laid out his retention model: "we are not… trying to steal the holders — we are trying to be a vacation spot." Come as you are, hold whatever PFP, spend a day or two with the crew. He'd rather everyone own one of each project than hoard 377 of one illiquid collection. Woof (@WoofArmyXX) built on it, describing the old days of communities literally trying to "collect people" out of each other's rooms as a red flag he now kicks himself for missing.

Super High (@SHGFees) candidly recapped his two-year top holder dumping ~100 LT3s, the floor sliding from ~0.07 to ~0.035, and how members rallied with WETH bids and buys — Craig even suggested buying him out moments before the dump. He leaned on a community member's framing of it as a "sorting phase," while Sho underscored that people posting and buying 15, 3, and 2 was the community showing up. ("Mom to the rescue," as Jed put it.)

Slick Ric (@richj530) — "I buy people, not pictures" — delivered the space's centerpiece monologue: don't just entertain your community, educate it; iron sharpens iron; stay humble and reachable no matter your position; one poisoned well starts with one negative person. Prices go up and down, the space is only a few years old, and stumbling blocks are just stepping stones.

Lyss lightened the mood recounting how, right after someone won an LT3 on Wednesday's stream, Slick immediately tried to buy it off them for 50 bucks. Super High piled on with the on-stream comment "he's gonna floor that" — and Jed's verdict: "Because it was true, probably. That's what usually happens."

Answering Gunn's idea about "whale Wednesdays" and rewards for large holders, Jed said it's real business — a 40% shareholder gets special access a 0.1% holder doesn't — but warned it has to be handled "smooth and behind closed doors" or you get a lot of bitching. Lyss balanced it by championing "time whales" like McFly, who funnels people to the restaurant seven days a week and never pays for his food.

Luna (@LunaPrime) got caught mid-lunch, then narrated New York strip steak cubes and fragrant rice cooked because his wife called and asked. Jed's takeaway doubled as life coaching: "if your wife called you to go home and make lunch, and you do, you will have a successful relationship." The tangent detoured through Margie's lettuce-sandwich warning and Jed's surprisingly delicious mayo-tortilla "alpha."

Chicken Wizard (@ChickenWizardX) reassured Super High he did nothing wrong — a low-floor buyer betting on a profit exit is just how collectibles work, and a big win is actually good optics — before praising Jed and Lyss's "tight ship" and Super's daily space as complementary rooms. Jed cut in that a large holder should still make a simple respect call to the founder before dumping OTC; Chicken agreed while noting you can't get mad at someone for winning.