Gerald Heydenreich, Founder of EtherMail, on Web3 Email, Tokenization, and The Future of Email | Ep. 320
In an exclusive interview with Cryptonews, Gerald Heydenreich, the founder of Web3 email platform EtherMail, talked about his path from Web1 to Web3, the similarities between Web1 and Web3, and reinventing email, which is used by 4.3 billion people globally.
The veteran entrepreneur further explained what EtherMail is and why it’s an industry changer.
In this episode, Gerald Heydenreich discussed:
You can watch the full podcast episode above or read some of what Heydenreich and Matt chatted about below.
One of the many interesting facts about Heydenreich is that his start was essentially in Web1 with his first business.
It was a crazy time – a new frontier – and it was very similar to what we’re seeing today, he argued.
“It was the same hype, the same craziness, the same crazy parties, the crazy IPOs and everything.”
Heydenreich says he loved this time filled with fundamental changes and “real visionaries.”
There was a “paradigm shift,” offering many new opportunities to those who wanted to seize them.
Web2, he suggests, is different. “A lot of the spaces have been staked, basically. People know exactly where the big players are.”
But then, a new era came. “It’s a blank level playing field for everybody. And you can really start from scratch and re-innovate.”
Gerald Heydenreich found that he was a place in Web3: learning and getting a lot of input on the one hand and, on the other, giving “a little bit back” of what he’s learned over the past two decades in Web1 and Web2 eras.
He can use the lessons he learned in the traditional building and apply them to something new. “So that’s the reason why I made the jump,” Heydenreich said.
The “triggering moment,” he said, was realizing – through Álvaro Morte’s NFT collection – just how
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