This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak. He led retail engineering at Coinbase for many years — building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. More recently, he is leading the development of Base, Coinbase's L2.00:00:00 intro 00:01:43 sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io) 00:03:07 motivation behind Base 00:11:12 pitching Base to the Coinbase exec team 00:14:24 challenges of innovating on a schedule 00:17:54 failing repeatedly to find the right answer 00:22:09 decision to build an L2 with Michael 00:23:30 convincing Surojit Chatterjee, Coinbase’s CPO [00:24:59] launching Base internally. [00:31:58] blockchains as serverless compute 00:36:53 uniswap as a serverless API for currency conversion 00:39:30 the power of small but leveraged teams 00:42:31 how to straddle product building in the onchain and offchain world 00:45:25 sponsor: Privy (privy.io) 00:51:22 the significance of THIS moment in Crypto 00:53:56 getting a 100M devs and 1B users onchain 00:57:02 how the NFT UX will change with Base 01:10:13 how crypto will be incorporated in applications 01:14:00 the risk of onchain heterogeneity. [01:17:27] building privacy-oriented onchain platforms 01:26:00 upgrading the financial system 01:28:33 attending Quaker School 01:34:43 relentless positivity in life 01:38:47 building a better futureJesse Pollak: • jesse.xyz on ETH • Twitter • Github • LinkedInInto the Bytecode: More episodes and transcripts - https://intothebytecode.xyz/ Newsletter - https://bytecode.substack.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahabThank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible: Optimism - https://optimism.io Privy - https://privy.ioRelevant Links: Base - https://base.org/ Coinbase - https://www.coinbase.com/ Brian Armstrong - https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong Surojit Chatterjee Coinbase’s CPO - https://www.coinbase.com/blog/welcome-surojit-chatterjee-coinbases-chief-product-officer OP Stack - https://stack.optimism.io/ Uniswap - https://uniswap.org/ Goldfinch - https://goldfinch.finance/ Zora - https://zora.co/ Quakerism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakersProduced by Spectral.to