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About Jed
Jed owns DeStefano's Steakhouse in Brooklyn, the official steakhouse for crypto and Web3, and co-founded the Regens after fifteen years on Wall Street. A year before his first fireside he was petrified to speak on Spaces. Now he pulls up a chair every Friday for one guest's whole story, because, in his words, he is here to make Web3 win.
01 Newest first
From this week's back to the first, Nov 14, 2025.
No.36
Newest
Kentucky, a soccer scholarship, an autism diagnosis in college and years teaching special ed, then Clubhouse and Web3. Mid-Space the new Regens website went live, with a scavenger hunt for a Regen.
The smartest person in the world isn't the person who knows everything, it's the person who knows where to find it out.
No.35
Navy years on F-18s, 27 years in software sales, then walking the circumference of the Earth, twelve miles a day for three and a half years. He calls himself a gratitude-driven human. Lead with love.
Listening is a skill. Most listen to respond… as opposed to listening to understand.
No.34
A community member a month in: losing her father at ten, becoming the head of the house at 21, and finding Web3 after a school reunion. Jed called it one of his favorite firesides.
I know how it is to live in dark, and the person who has never faced darkness will never, you know, appreciate the light. So it's my duty to spread light wherever I go.
No.33
Twelve years in banking at Goldman and Barclays, a CryptoPunk bought on Valentine's Day 2021, then a text that ended with him buying Meebits from Yuga inside a week. He came for the technology, and he is staying for it.
I didn't see it as an investment vehicle, I saw it as a development vehicle.
No.32
A mini fireside inside the Otherside show: a post office worker from Ohio and former competitive Call of Duty player, leading the Regens into Otherside, and one of the few who came to NFTs through gaming.
What I'm bullish on when it comes to the Otherside right now is the people involved… while the Otherside is a beautiful thing, it's really the people that make the place.
No.31
The first community spotlight. Twenty years running Seattle coffeehouses and a wine bar, then a photographer whose work hangs in Delta's lounges, on grief, listening, and taking hardship as something happening for you.
Safe spaces will keep you inside that cave that you're in… bravery gets you outside of that cave.
No.30
From a post-communist Romanian childhood and Cartoon Network to MetaVixens, the hand-drawn collection she started because nothing on her timeline felt feminine. She shared its move to Ethereum, and why she would draw no matter what.
I came here to draw and I'm happy and I would draw no matter what.
No.29
A Miami kid with an exotic car business and millions young, then addiction, the music industry and ten years as a firefighter. His lesson, from a beach where he had everything he wanted: peace of mind is not something you can buy.
Peace of mind is not something you can buy.
No.28
Woof's life story, told to a room gone quiet: small-town West Virginia, enlisting at 17, rocket artillery in the Army, and the accident that changed everything. Then how he found his way to Web3 spaces.
I was like, I'm like, nobody say anything. I'm out here on an island alone.
No.27
From running his own IT shop to Illuminary Labs, Last Gen and the Illverse games. He raised his price mid-mint so early buyers were never underwater, something Jed said he had never seen anyone do.
We're the pioneers on the freaking Oregon Trail. We're the ones that made it instead of dying of dysentery.
No.26
Culinary school, restaurant kitchens and a COVID layoff, then a gold Bored Ape on his timeline when he had forty followers. The story of Space Riders, built with a team that stayed, and why people remember how you made them feel.
Money is money at the end of the day, people won't take that to the grave, but people will remember how you made them feel.
No.25
Longest
Lyss tells a story she had kept to herself for years, with Jed in the chair. A hard, honest hour, and the room stayed with her the whole way.
No.24
Yuga's head of engineering, from AOL-era web pages to Shopify's blockchain team. Build in public, charge for your work, and let the NFT be the plumbing people discover later, because the blockchain is a turtle: it's forever.
I need to think about this from a long-term perspective because the blockchain's a turtle, it's forever.
No.23
A classically trained saxophonist turned mortgage quant explains 2008, and why it made him want hard money. The warmest part: his TradFi father was the first person in his life who got crypto.
He didn't give me money, he just gave me the opportunity to invest my own money in the way that I wanted to.
No.22
HubSpot by day, Naked Army by night. JB on building a support network of more than a hundred partners, taking over the Call of the Stars contract, and why a hundred people holding one NFT beats one whale holding a hundred.
I owned like four million dogecoins at one point, sold it for a hundred dollar profit before uh before it pumped.
No.21
CyberKongz's voice, from the Coast Guard to flipping houses to community manager. The centerpiece: 27 months of SEC investigation and over a million dollars in legal fees, closed with nothing found.
None of those people are better than any of us. Make no mistake, not a single one of them. They may have got luckier than a lot of us, but they're not better than any of us.
No.20
A self-taught builder at ApeCo walks through Clutch Markets and his newest product, ANVIL, a market that pairs an NFT collection with its own token, with live numbers from his own launch that week.
I don't have a computer science degree, I'm 100% self-taught.
No.19
FUGZ's founder on the hardest stretch of his life, eleven days from homelessness, and how FUGZ grew out of it as a culture of connection. It minted out with zero paid marketing, one call at a time.
If anyone's gonna buy into FUGZ, at the very minimum I want them to feel seen. It's that simple for me.
No.18
Kev quit high school in the Netherlands, slept on the streets in Spain at 19, built a marketing agency, then reunited with his two older brothers to build Final Bosu, an anime world in Web3.
In my mind they're famous writers. They're on par with Naruto, One Piece… It's just not exposed yet. It's only a time before the rest of the world gets to see it.
No.17
Chimpers' co-founder, who built it with his twin brother Timpers, on growing a Substack newsletter into a brand followed by millions, why patience is not complacency, and a new illustrated look coming to every Chimper.
Most people hear the word patience and have it confused with complacency, laziness, lack of ambition. It's not true. I actually think patience has been foundational in my success.
No.16
Most listened
Told while he drove to, parked at and walked into Yankee Stadium for his son's first game: a nightclub VP at 21, a 250 ETH rug, and how he came to own Quirkies. Stadium security cut it short, so a part two was booked.
Just because something isn't great when it starts, doesn't mean that it's a failure.
No.15
Maha's story: a failed back surgery that ended his snowboarding and his sense of who he was, a decade climbing through luxury retail, then getting hired into Threelanders and rising to run it.
That has been the biggest challenge of the space is building a product that people want to genuinely engage with to be a fan and not because there's like a financial incentive to them.
No.14
LT3's founder, a Tampa skater who traded his sneaker collection for crypto in 2021 and lost it on a Bored Ape knockoff. He traced how LT3 went viral with no paid ads, and the difference between building an audience and building a community.
There's a difference between building an audience and building a community.
No.13
Jed's first as host
Jed's first fireside as host. Bulliez lost $18K to a spoofed mint page in 2021, went down the Etherscan rabbit hole, taught himself Solidity, and built Pixel Pals as a one-man team.
The dips are for builders though. Dips are for builders. So look for the builders.
No.12
VeeFriends' community and concierge lead: a shy kid from Southern California turned clown and theater producer, who posted daily VeeFriends content for 18 straight months until the team hired him. Plus vibe coding, and what is next for VeeFriends.
Everything's a people's business. So knowing our holders, building for our holders...
No.11
Not saved
Cab on his story and the brand he is building with Claynosaurz. Lyss later counted his fireside among the ones that brought people into the founders' communities.
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No.10
Not saved
The man who inspired the firesides, interviewed in turn. A week earlier Mav had hosted Lyss for her first fireside; this time she asked the questions.
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No.9
Not saved
Unscripted and unfiltered, with one of Web3's most polarizing voices. Jed said that love him or hate him, Anon always has motion and holds attention, with plenty of potential still to come.
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No.8
Not saved
The Good Vibes Club founder on the Regens fireside, opening 2026. Jed came away calling it so refreshing, and picked up two GVCs of his own.
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No.7
Lyss turns the mic on Jed: co-founding the Regens, steering away from cookie-cutter NFT playbooks, and his idea for 2026, that founders should send holders to buy other good projects. Asked what he would do differently, he said no regrets.
If you haven't gone through any pain in life and you just had it easy, you know what? You probably got no character.
No.6
An iron worker's story, told in full: a rollover that left him quadriplegic, five and a half years living in a hospital, and the mindset that got him out. When an airline turned his wheelchair away, he drove 21 hours to Vegas himself.
I believe that we die twice in this life. Obviously, once when we go to our funeral, and then second when people stop talking about us.
No.5
Not saved
One of the first guests, and one of Jed's favorite builders on ApeChain. Slick later called him one of the smartest people in the space.
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No.4
Ghost Lab's founder, from a Portuguese village kid on his dad's IBM laptop to Pokémon flipper, Ethereum miner and NFT whale. He funded his first crypto by selling a Pokémon collection, then took nearly three years to mint out Ghost Lab.
I've never seen another project give more to the people supporting them than you have.
No.3
Not saved
A builder on Base whom Jed called one of the best devs on the network, innovating and shipping faster than most. Toro picked up another Regen after the chat.
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No.2
The first Friday fireside
The first Friday fireside. MAISON went from a Southampton kid obsessed with movies to a decade as a location manager on Netflix and HBO shows, then producer for Neil Patrick Harris, before finding Web3 in a dark stretch in 2021.
Two people can meet up and exchange a dollar, right? They both walk away with one dollar. But if two people meet up and they exchange an idea, they both walk away with two ideas.
No.1
Not saved
World of Women's CEO, the week the Friday 1-on-1 began. Lyss billed it as getting to know the person behind the PFP, and asked the room to come with questions.
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Seven of the early firesides are no longer on X. They keep their place here, so the record is whole.