✍️ Interview Notes After the interview, @angelilu3 assigned each of the four individuals a score based on their enthusiasm: Kassy scored 95, Andrew 70, Roxannie 60, and Lynn said she was “just barely passing.” The two still in school gave higher scores than the two already working full-time. Among these four, a sense of fresh discovery in exploring an industry contrasted sharply with the experience of relying on it for livelihood. All four had interacted with cryptocurrency, but in different ways. 🔹 Kassy buys only spot assets and avoids futures; 🔹 Roxannie buys spot and has also tried on-chain “meme” tokens; 🔹 Andrew has traded both spot and futures, but manages position sizes and sets predefined take-profit and stop-loss levels; 🔹 Lynn holds only small amounts of Bitcoin and Ethereum, buying and holding without active trading. Of course, earning money is part of the appeal—but in their stories, there’s more to it than trading: finding jobs, creating content, organizing events, and building networks. They don’t fit the stereotype of technical enthusiasts or hardcore crypto traders, yet it’s clear that Web3 has already entered their lives in the form of tangible work. Friends invite them to start clubs, projects hire them for BD roles, platforms recruit them as researchers—people can first engage through work, then gradually learn the underlying concepts. Participation in the industry no longer requires strong technical alignment as a starting point. These four cases can’t represent all newcomers, but they make some entry motivations concrete: less commuting, more autonomy, exposure to a broader world, and opportunities earned through self-taught skills. Kassy and Andrew are studying in Australia and organizing campus activities; Lynn works remotely from overseas; Roxannie, based in Shenzhen, manages accounts for global-facing businesses. For some of them, this means greater flexibility between work location and residence—and no longer needing to follow a traditional career path tied to their original field of study. These changes come with real trade-offs. Roxannie had to figure out BD on her own and now faces pressure from traffic metrics and content selection; Lynn escaped commuting but finds work and personal life blending together, while constantly keeping an eye out for her next opportunity. Freedom has been partially achieved, yet concerns about income and future prospects remain. After our conversation, I realized the question “What’s interesting about Web3?” can be answered on a more everyday scale: earning money, growing personally, meeting people, and arranging life on one’s own terms—these desires exist in any industry. But for these young people, Web3 has shown them another possible way to achieve them. They’re willing to give it a try—and are using their own experiences to judge how much of that possibility can actually be realized. Kassy doesn’t want to see what her life will look like thirty years from now; Lynn is already searching for her next, more suitable job. One wants to keep exploring; the other is preparing to move on—but both still want to preserve their options. *Photo: Kassy & Andrew at an industry conference*