A few days ago, I made a bold decision. As you know, effective education and creating opportunities for people have always been important to me.
My next move will be dedicated to tackle one of the biggest challenges of our industry, training the next generation of women and student developers from Web2, to become onchain builders/founders.
Around 10,000 full-time developers for a $3T industry, 3x fewer developers than at Google. Do you see the problem? A lot of money is injected only into the same dev pool, while it’s not the best long-term strategy.
Current challenges
Current Web3 dev just farming hackathons and enjoying hacker houses
Not enough developers with a product vision, so don't end up founders
Newcomers and emerging devs can’t find any jobs as the hiring market is saturated and hyper-competitive
AI is coming and we have a shortage of this profile in the industry
Many Web2 junior developers looking for opportunities :)
It's always a good thing to onboard people, but that's not enough. 80% of the job involves follow-up. Here is the typical journey of a Web2 dev in Web3:
Choose to follow an online program with hundreds of people
Be graduated
Try exploring the ecosystem → follow-up has to start here
Looking for opportunities but didn’t find anything
Say bye and come back to Web2
From this week, Lucila and I will launch the first Onchain Builder School with a top funnel journey for minority developers coming from Web2. Our first challenge will be to onboard AND follow closely over 500 women and/or students to become real builders, at least until EthCC. Everything for free, online, and with a strong mentoring system.
Can’t wait to launch this initiative, showcase the program, and how we are going to execute it. Hope this framework will be useful for the future.
I'm so back. See you at the launch this week 🎒