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Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund

Dorm Room Fund

49 episodes

4 days ago

What if the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, investors, and product visionaries held office hours just for student founders? What would you ask? What stories would they tell? What lessons would product builders teach the next generation of game-changers? We had the same questions. So we asked them. This is Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund. To learn more about DRF and apply to be considered for an investment, visit our website: www.dormroomfund.com.

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What if the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, investors, and product visionaries held office hours just for student founders? What would you ask? What stories would they tell? What lessons would product builders teach the next generation of game-changers? We had the same questions. So we asked them. This is Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund. To learn more about DRF and apply to be considered for an investment, visit our website: www.dormroomfund.com.

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Entrepreneurship

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Connor McEwen, Engineering Lead at Uniswap Labs

Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund

26 minutes 6 seconds

3 years ago

Connor McEwen, Engineering Lead at Uniswap Labs

Andrew Xu and Daniel Aboul-Hassan speak with Connor McEwen (@connormcewen) from Uniswap Labs!

Uniswap allows people to swap, earn, and build on the leading decentralized crypto trading protocol.

(0:32) - Introduction

(1:22) - What led Connor to join Dorm Room Fund

(2:52) - Deciding whether or not take a gap year during college

(4:24) - Important lessons learned from returning to school

(6:11) - Experience launching makeBU

(8:48) - Being on the engineering side & what people on the Business and Engineering sides can learn from each other

(10:55) - How Connor approached joining a large company vs. startup

(14:20) - Is Connor a Bitcoin millionaire?

(14:30) - Connor's funny story about mining Bitcoin

(15:31) - How to land an engineering role at an attractive startup

(18:10) - 2013 startups vs. 2022 startups

(20:06) - Hottest Web3 take

(21:43) - How should engineers working at early-stage startups view fundraising?

(23:31) - Staying up to date in the crypto space

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Get in touch with Connor!

Twitter: @connormcewen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmcewen/