Re:Envisioning Web3 | Fireside Chat with Jed & Superhighgasfees

After a long hip-hop open (Wu-Tang, then "Juicy" — which Lyss confessed was the hardest listen of her day, mic open, unable to sing a single word) 10:54, Jed came out of a vision-over-validation voiceover with a blunt framing: this space is full of people chasing validation, and he's not one of them. "I'm gonna fucking become a leader on this space, and I don't give a shit what nobody says."

Tampa, skateboard at 11, fully committed until 21 or 22, whole team chasing pro. Crypto and NFTs intervened and "sucked us in as it does most people who join the space."

Super asked to be dropped into a stack of AP classes with no prerequisites, convinced them, and aced most of them — too late for the college plan, but a useful data point about him. The C, he noted, was because he didn't vibe with the teacher.

Working at a skate shop in 2021 with Chunky Dunkys and P-Rods in hand, he sold the whole collection on StockX and went all-in on crypto. He and a friend then split a Wicked Ape Bone Club on the theory that it was the affordable Bored Ape. "We got cooked, so I lost my shoe money."

Super said he thought community building was just tweeting a lot, and called that "so wrong." The line that stuck with him: if you can't name ten community members off the top of your head and say what they're about, you don't have a community. Jed built on it with his own version — phone calls, IRLs, knowing people's families — and framed Re:Envisioning as community-building for Web3 broadly, not recruitment into Regens 33:00.

She noted that back in December's Who's Behind the PFP, Super talked about "the weight of a founder" in a much more serious register, and lately he's been laughing in spaces. Super's answer 36:56 was that he used to believe a founder had to watch every word and perform leadership, and has since dropped it: "I'm not gonna come on here and try to be just like the next founder and try to be like mysterious." Jed matched it with why he avoided spaces for five years 39:33 — worry about how he sounded — and Lyss closed the loop on confidence being learned, not assumed 41:19.

He asked about Super's upbringing — mom and dad, divorce, who he leans on — and Super answered openly about falling-outs with his father and a recent stroke that reframed the argument backlog: "all this shit that we've argued about over the last couple years is like so unimportant." Astro then read him accurately as conflict-averse, and Super agreed he's a people pleaser, illustrated with a collab where he couldn't bring himself to say he didn't like the Velcro 50:39.

Ric offered his own version — years hating his pops, now watching him age and counting the wasted years — then asked what keeps Super going on the flat days. Super's answer wasn't about himself: his friends gave up ten years of skating for this, and "did I just like take these people's lives and set them back five years?" 56:28.

Asked by Money Miller where the biggest opportunity lies, Super pointed at holders — "a lot of times they've kind of it's kind of been viewed as a liability, but I actually think it's like a huge advantage" — citing Rekt Guy's community getting the brand into stores and Pudgy doing the same, and noting he watched people buy NFTs live off a Whatnot stream 43:16. He kept catching himself on the word "using," wary of it sounding predatory.

Ric announced he had to jump — eighth-birthday duty, Reno, snow, and letting his daughter run wild at Circus Circus — after giving Jed a note on his hosting: when Super sped to the end of his own story, Jed brought it back. Jed then made the point that the room was full of unfamiliar faces rather than regulars, which is the whole purpose of Re:Envisioning 1:08:47.

Asked for his current rotation, Super braced for judgment over a "standard" answer; Lyss told him Drake was fine, Kendrick would have been judged. He then sang a fragment of a track he found in a skate edit — "we hear the rumble, don't hear what you say" — and Lyss identified it in seconds. Her method, fully disclosed: "I went to Google and I was typing in the words he sang. I cheated." Money Miller immediately volunteered to pull the sample for a track.