Jay Graber's guest appearances

Jay Graber

Voices of VR

Garden State Coach Cast

The Unstoppable Podcast

Elon Musk

Gabriel Anderson

Ryan Carson

Tim Draper

Scott Moore

Sergey Nazarov

Landon Cassill

Yaniv Tal

Matt Carroll

Haseeb Qureshi

Qiao Wang

Adam Draper

Devin Finzer

Isaiah Jackson

Danny Zuckerman

OwlTail

I did an interview with Jay Graber back in 2019 at the Decentralized Web (DWeb) Camp a few years before she officially became the Bluesky CEO, which is currently the new hot social media platform that’s a Twitter clone built on top a decentralized architecture using the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. At the time, Graber was working on a decentralized events application called Happening, but she had a lot aspirations to build out a fully-fledged decentralized social media platform. The challenge was the bootstrapping problem of getting a critical mass of users, which was a bit too much to overcome with all of the friction involved in making the onboarding and overall user experience of DWeb systems easy and intuitive. At the time, her solution was to start with a centralized onboarding process, and eventually integrate more decentralized aspects over time, which happens to be a very similar strategy to what Bluesky is currently doing.I wanted to dig up this July 19, 2019 interview with Graber from my archives of unpublished interviews because she articulates a lot of the deeper philosophical inspirations and motivations she had back in 2019 that are being carried to their logical conclusions at her current position as CEO of Bluesky. The Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal from March 2018 was a turning point for Graber that motivated her to start to working towards decentralized social networks that have better privacy protections and stronger agency over data, but also to work on peer-to-peer models that can be more resilient to censorship and natural disasters where our supercomputer phones are often bricked without working cell service or Internet connectivity.

I did an interview with Jay Graber back in 2019 at the Decentralized Web (DWeb) Camp a few years before she officially became the Bluesky CEO, which is currently the new hot social media platform that’s a Twitter clone built on top a decentralized architecture using the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. At the time, Graber was working on a decentralized events application called Happening, but she had a lot aspirations to build out a fully-fledged decentralized social media platform. The challenge was the bootstrapping problem of getting a critical mass of users, which was a bit too much to overcome with all of the friction involved in making the onboarding and overall user experience of DWeb systems easy and intuitive. At the time, her solution was to start with a centralized onboarding process, and eventually integrate more decentralized aspects over time, which happens to be a very similar strategy to what Bluesky is currently doing. I wanted to dig up this July 19, 2019 interview with Graber from my archives of unpublished interviews because she articulates a lot of the deeper philosophical inspirations and motivations she had back in 2019 that are being carried to their logical conclusions at her current position as CEO of Bluesky. The Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal from March 2018 was a turning point for Graber that motivated her to start to working towards decentralized social networks that have better privacy protections and stronger agency over data, but also to work on peer-to-peer models that can be more resilient to censorship and natural disasters where our supercomputer phones are often bricked without working cell service or Internet connectivity.

#1211: Jay Graber in 2019 on Decentralized Social Networking Philosophy before becoming Bluesky CEO

We talk about what drew Jay to the blockchain space and what she thinks is keeping more people from joining. We also discuss her work with Zcash — a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that adds encryption to transactions.Jay talks about the importance of privacy in crypto networks and some of the potential dangers of blockchain when it comes to public transaction records. We discuss whether developers have a responsibility to bake privacy into protocols, and the importance of zero-knowledge proofs for building private decentralized networks.Jay also covers her work with Twitter’s Blue Sky Project. We talk about the problems with social media platforms today, if social media will decentralize, and what that might look like.--You can follow Matthew on Twitter and LinkedIn, Diana on Twitter and LinkedIn, and learn more about Unstoppable Domains and our work here.You can follow our guest, Jay Graber, on  Twitter and LinkedIn, and check out Happening here.--Don’t forget to rate, download, and subscribe to the podcast so you won't miss an episode and we can keep producing awesome content for you.

We talk about what drew Jay to the blockchain space and what she thinks is keeping more people from joining. We also discuss her work with <a href="https://z.cash/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zcash</a> — a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that adds encryption to transactions.Jay talks about the importance of privacy in crypto networks and some of the potential dangers of blockchain when it comes to public transaction records. We discuss whether developers have a responsibility to bake privacy into protocols, and the importance of zero-knowledge proofs for building private decentralized networks.Jay also covers her work with Twitter’s Blue Sky Project. We talk about the problems with social media platforms today, if social media will decentralize, and what that might look like.--You can follow Matthew on <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewegould?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-gould-7877361/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>, Diana on <a href="https://twitter.com/ddwchen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianadchen/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>, and learn more about Unstoppable Domains and our work <a href="https://unstoppabledomains.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.You can follow our guest, Jay Graber, on  <a href="https://twitter.com/arcalinea?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaygraber" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>, and check out Happening <a href="https://happening.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.--Don’t forget to rate, download, and subscribe to the podcast so you won't miss an episode and we can keep producing awesome content for you.

24 - Building Private Decentralized Networks with Jay Graber

Coach Jay Graber and I sit down and talk about everything from the lessons he learned as a college football player at Hofstra and Bryant University; approaching his first Freshmen football job at Allentown HS as if it were the most important thing in the world; turning around the next season to take over a program that was on life support as a 25 year old head coach and building it into a perennial winner in his 9 years at the helm (State SJG4 Finals in '14, CJG4 State Champs in '16); coaching Varsity basketball and football -- during a deep playoff run on the gridiron; his favorite Mike Tyson quote; coaching the whole student athlete; why the Joker is his favorite athlete; and some great advice for young coaches.  It was a great talk and I hope you enjoy it!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mick-hughes/support

Coach Jay Graber and I sit down and talk about everything from the lessons he learned as a college football player at Hofstra and Bryant University; approaching his first Freshmen football job at Allentown HS as if it were the most important thing in the world; turning around the next season to take over a program that was on life support as a 25 year old head coach and building it into a perennial winner in his 9 years at the helm (State SJG4 Finals in '14, CJG4 State Champs in '16); coaching Varsity basketball and football -- during a deep playoff run on the gridiron; his favorite Mike Tyson quote; coaching the whole student athlete; why the Joker is his favorite athlete; and some great advice for young coaches.  It was a great talk and I hope you enjoy it!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/mick-hughes/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/mick-hughes/support</a>

Ep. 4 Jay Graber, Head Football Coach @Matawan High School