# The web3 brain drain

**Published by:** [ClemB](https://paragraph.com/@clemb/)
**Published on:** 2022-02-14
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@clemb/the-web3-brain-drain

## Content

One by one. People have had enough of selling their time to purposeless corporations stuck in bureaucracy, politics, and status quo. Web2 platforms are hiring for web3 roles - YouTube, Twitch, Meta, Apple, Nike, Disney, PayPal, Amazon, Fidelity, Google, Microsoft, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Visa, MasterCard...Their top people either embrace those roles or go for native web3 plays.YouTube → Polygon StudiosDomino's Pizza → FriesDAOTikTok → BAYZEx-Facebook → DiemMeta → CircleAirbnb → Crypto VCWalmart → Blockchain.comAmazon → GeminiLyft & Uber → OpenSeaGoogle, LinkedIn → CoinbaseWeb 2 → Web3 ⚡️Seems pretty inevitable at this point. Fascinating to watch the battle for talent retention from major incumbents as the brain drain continues.

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