BONUS ICYMI: A Conversation with Pifafu from OP Labs (First Aired as an episode of TNS RETRO RADIO Twitter Spaces)

ZEROPOD: A Zero Copyright Video Podcast About Enjoying Ethereum

On this bonus episode for the ZEROPOD feed, we are re-broadcasting a conversation with Pifafu from OP Labs that took place on our weekly RETRO RADIO Twitter Spaces all about retroactive public goods funding from Optimism, Gitcoin, Nouns and others. Pif takes us through her career, including stints at Patreon and GitHub before joining OP Labs, and talks about why she thinks what Optimism is doing with RetroPGF is so important. We hope you enjoy!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:31 - Starting at a “Fake Startup”

04:05 - Patreon

05:31 - GitHub

08:00 - The importance of reputation tracking in crypto space

10:30 - Building infra for yourselves, open sourcing it for others

12:00 - The Github Commit Chart

14:00 - Commit Chart Controversy!

24:00 - The importance of having data available on your community

26:17 - Nouns Agora is the new LinkedIn?

29:54 - OP Labs role

31:13 - Many hats at first

32:20 - Designed Onchain application process for RetroPGF, cumulative design

34:57 - Binji’s “Financial martyrdom problem”

37:08 - Making public goods profitable.

38:50 - What is Retro PGF in a nutshell?

44:00 - The Contributions Repo

45:00 - What kind of contributions can help the Collective?

47:00 - The Literal OP Flywheel

51:00 - OP Winning the L2 Vibes War

54:00 - Outro!