Highlights
Jed on running out of hours.
Asked how he's doing, Jed went straight to the math problem: spaces have real ROI, the restaurant has real ROI, the activation needs building, and there are still only 24 hours. Lyss offered to buy the solution off anyone who has it for ten million dollars.
"This is building in public."
Jed walked through why a hard daily time slot is starting to feel like a second job — floating a three-days-a-week cadence instead — and admitted that even after three days with no phone, during a move, he felt like he'd done something wrong. He also mentioned coming back online to 72 unanswered DMs, some of which he answered while walking around CVS.
Chicken Wizard talks him down.
From Romania (where even Halloween merch takes a while to arrive), Chicken Wizard made the case that a founder who builds daily and hosts daily will lose his mind, and that an hour a day with the community doesn't have to be from the hot seat — "it can be in like you know the casual seat and just like a hangout session" 17:29. Jed's counter: he's not cutting back, he's just questioning the clock.
The best gift idea of the hour.
Burningbush mentioned his dad turned 65 and had been asking what this spaces thing even is. Jed immediately offered to send him a regen if they get him a wallet and a Twitter profile — at which point Burningbush noted they might be creating a monster, i.e. a 65-year-old KOL.
zGhostin on Otherside as a front door.
Head of Otherside relations for the regens, Ghostin described getting onboarded into other communities simply by showing up to their events, making friends, and watching that attention funnel back. Jed's follow-up drew the line between onboarding (easy, often monetary) and retention (relationships, dinners, coffee, feeling seen) 26:09.
Scotty steps out of the back end.
Four-plus years in and still not a natural spaces guy, Scotty credited Burningbush and Lyss's habit of pulling everyone into the conversation for getting him on mic, and said it had made him enjoy NFTs again. His own onboarding style is text-based: live in the Discord, answer every ticket fast — even through the stretch where every message was "when is floor price gonna go up" and he had no answer to give 33:48. Jed's reply: the down weeks are exactly when holders need the founder most 35:01. And then the practical part — Scotty's in New York around Christmas and wants to bring his wife and kids to the restaurant incognito, to which Jed promised the corner table and a VIP sign 37:43.
CeoTim on people who want to be paid to care.
Tim's account of taking over his project — buying the IP, keeping a small team on payroll out of his own pocket, eventually having to lay them off when runway ran out — led into the uncomfortable observation that a lot of early "onboarded" members expected compensation just to tweet or speak on the project's behalf. His conclusion: the real onboarding has to happen outside web3, which for him meant an ElevenLabs grant and Ubisoft meetings off the back of a free game 43:00, and a reality check about timelines for everyone expecting overnight traction 44:00.
The question that made the space.
Tim asked Jed directly: without being able to pay anyone, how do you keep a whole team as invested as you are? Jed's answer was a year of hand-picking holders he's known for years, total doxxing, and pegging his family's 20-year restaurant name to the project 52:38. Lyss followed with the team-lead view: Jed invests in her brand and her goals, not just the regens, and that's what keeps her locked in 55:43. Patron added the blunt version 1:00:10, and Ghost said what sealed it for him was accessibility — a founder's phone number, and a daily friendship with Lee that's mostly about kids and families, not NFTs 1:03:46.
The phone number experiment.
Jed confessed to dropping his personal number in the group chat on a chippy day — and then receiving exactly zero calls. Not even a prank call, which he seemed to take as the bigger insult. It turned into a genuine point about being selectively accessible, but the punchline landed first.
Lee on what survives a zero.
Burningbush (Lee) framed the whole thing cleanly: the floor price doesn't affect a single relationship he has in this community, and if the project vanished tomorrow, the same people would show up in the same spaces with the same PFPs. He spends his own money building for the ecosystem anyway — Regen Noir, the Defender De Stefano's game — which fed into Jed describing the think tank as the mechanism for paying that work back 1:11:06.
SLICK RIC's origin story.
Calling in from a trailer pickup, Slick traced the whole thing back to a steak dinner — "we all met over that bacon, baby" — the night they joked about being the web3 steakhouse and Lyss upgraded it to steakhouse of the world. His bigger point: strangers here support you more than family does, and he'll put money on a guy who never stops trying no matter how many times he fails.
Crash-out watch.
Jed's theory that every founder in this space has had at least one public crash out, with exactly one holdout — and he intends to be there with a beer when it finally happens.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 3:19 – 7:31 | Intro, hype songs, Lean on DJ duty |
| 7:31 – 19:20 | Check-ins; Jed on daily-slot pressure and building in public; Chicken Wizard's counsel |
| 19:31 – 21:27 | Burningbush lab update; his dad's 65th and a regen airdrop plan |
| 21:27 – 26:04 | Lyss on spaces as her main onboarding tool; zGhostin on Otherside |
| 26:09 – 30:06 | Onboarding vs. retention; relationships, songs, experience |
| 30:06 – 38:06 | Scotty: the behind-the-scenes founder learning to use a mic |
| 38:06 – 50:59 | CeoTim: compensation culture, grants, ElevenLabs/Ubisoft, entrepreneur timelines |
| 50:59 – 1:08:42 | The big question: keeping a team inspired without money — Jed, Lyss, Patron, Ghost |
| 1:08:42 – 1:16:00 | Lee on community over floor price; building with IP, the think tank |
| 1:17:18 – 1:22:04 | SLICK RIC on five years, family vs. strangers, legacy |
| 1:22:04 – 1:29:46 | Wrap: re:screen posts, birthdays, game night, closing song |
Notable quotes
Web 3 isn't the cheat code to success, it's probably the longer path to success. And if you're a real entrepreneur, you're going to endure.
I don't want to be anybody's home. People got their homes already, they've been here a long time. But if you have a home, I just want to be the vacation spot for people.
Be a fucking good leader and people will organically gravitate towards your energy.
Everybody has something to say, but then you say, here's my number, call me if you got any ideas or something you want us to do or whatever. And I didn't get one phone call.
The floor price isn't going to affect any of the relationships that I have in this community.
It's amazing that strangers will support you more than your own family.
Who said what
- Lyss (@Lysss302) — host; set the onboarding topic, ran the re:screen, and gave the team-lead answer to Tim's question: she stays because the support goes both ways 55:43. Closed with the midweek reset and "it's a great day to be a regen" 1:29:42.
- Jed (@jed_131) — founder; the hour's most candid voice, on time scarcity, daily-slot pressure, free mint with no royalties funded by the restaurant, and wanting a slow staircase rather than a pump 50:07.
- Burningbush / Lee (@BurningBush_eth) — cohost, song machine, Regen Noir and Defender De Stefano's builder; delivered the "community outlasts the project" thesis 1:10:07, plus a running grievance with a certain AI music company's support inbox 46:01.
- CeoTim.eth (@ceotim) — guest whose question reframed the space; shared hard-earned lessons on compensation expectations, running out of runway, and winning attention from ElevenLabs and Ubisoft rather than from the same rotating web3 liquidity.
- Scotty (@scottybmitch) — bearish founder; the introvert's onboarding playbook (be in the Discord, answer fast) and a genuine thank-you for being welcomed onto mic.
- Chicken Wizard (@ChickenWizardX) — building daily from Romania; gently insisted Jed is too hard on himself and that showing up doesn't require the host chair.
- zGhostin (@zGhostin) — head of Otherside relations; made the case for events and avatars as a real onboarding funnel, and is co-planning the Discord game night.
- Patron (@ALPHAisFREE) — not yet a holder, already treated as community; leadership-by-energy pep talk, and plans to make it official.
- Ghost (@Ghost_Story86) — apparel side; stayed because the team was accessible and the friendships extended past NFTs.
- SLICK RIC (@richj530) — long-timer who met Jed and Lyss over dinner at the restaurant; closing reflection on resilience, legacy, and network as the real net worth.
- Woof (@WoofArmyXX) — checked in early between his morning space and the gym; his comic series is in the re:screen and his birthday is tomorrow.
Worth a full listen
- 11:24 – 19:20 Jed's unedited think-out-loud about founder burnout and cadence, and Chicken Wizard's response. This is the "building in public" part that a summary flattens; the tone is the content.
- 50:59 – 1:08:00 Tim's question and the four answers it pulled out of Jed, Lyss, Patron and Ghost. Back-to-back perspectives from founder, team lead, non-holder regular and community member on the same question, with the phone-number bit as a kicker.
- 1:17:18 – 1:22:04 SLICK RIC's uninterrupted five-minute story from a steak dinner to the steakhouse of the world. Worth hearing in his own cadence, choppy trailer-lot signal included.
