Krishna Nandakumar

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I spent 5 years at Deliveroo. I helped scale the cloud kitchen business, the People function and worked in Product, where I found my calling.

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Published essays

Date	Name
March 12, 2023	The AI incumbent race
March 5, 2023	Where will AI go?
February 26, 2023	How to choose your model
February 17, 2023	How to find ideas
February 11, 2023	Your margin is my opportunity
February 1, 2023	David vs. Goliath
January 25, 2023	Actionable AI
January 12, 2023	Observations from building in AI
January 6, 2023	The search wars
December 30, 2022	Ai Ai Captain
December 14, 2022	AI, accuracy and reliability
December 8, 2022	The future of investment research
December 1, 2022	Trained a stable diffusion model
November 23, 2022	Bootstrapping a marketplace
November 14, 2022	Should you go vertical?
November 6, 2022	Unit economics in AI
October 31, 2022	Generative AI
October 23, 2022	The App Store for Time
October 15, 2022	Pricing an early stage SaaS product
October 8, 2022	Moats in B2B SaaS
October 1, 2022	Bundling and unbundling
September 24, 2022	Open source
September 18, 2022	Payments and crypto
September 10, 2022	Will DeFi
September 3, 2022	Get rich or DAI trying
August 23, 2022	The Fork
August 16, 2022	The Tornado Effect
August 9, 2022	Tokenising gold
August 2, 2022	Privacy in DeFi
July 26, 2022	Scaling DeFi
July 19, 2022	Central bank digital currencies
July 12, 2022	Everyone’s building an NFT marketplace
July 5, 2022	The time for DeFi is now
June 28, 2022	Building your own chain
June 21, 2022	The curse of leverage
June 13, 2022	Nouns deep dive
June 7, 2022	Mental model for NFTs
May 31, 2022	Identity with Web3
May 23, 2022	Cold start with tokens
May 16, 2022	Terra: An $18 billion run
May 10, 2022	NFTs x consumer
May 2, 2022	How the largest NFT launch crippled Ethereum
April 25, 2022	The $1.23 billion opportunity: Web3 exploits
April 18, 2022	Tokenomics: it’s all about supply and demand
April 11, 2022	A web3 app that wants to pay you to walk or run
April 1, 2022	What can Web3 solve for users?
March 29, 2022	$625m exploit on Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network
March 22, 2022	Building for the next billion users in web3
March 19, 2022	Everything you need to know about the $APE token drop
March 17, 2022	Key takeaways on $APE coin
March 15, 2022	Key takeaways for the Ethereum Merge
March 8, 2022	Rewarding community contribution in web3
March 1, 2022	Creator’s guide to NFT contracts on Ethereum
February 28, 2022	Creating a token as a creator
February 27, 2022	How to read a smart contract even if you don’t know how to code?
February 24, 2022	Rosenthal’s reservations on the blockchain
February 21, 2022	Who owns the content behind your NFT?
February 14, 2022	Why some creators are against NFTs and how we can help them
February 6, 2022	Here’s what I’ve learnt from writing every day for the last 33 days
February 5, 2022	If you create content, start monetising it with tokens
February 4, 2022	5 ways in which the $80 billion NFT market will evolve
February 3, 2022	How to gate your web3 community: options and considerations
February 2, 2022	$250m was stolen from Wormhole, a web3 protocol
February 1, 2022	India announced it's plans to regulate crypto: here's what you need to know
January 31, 2022	Crypto bans: what are they and why is it difficult to implement?
January 30, 2022	4 practical tips for growing a community effectively
January 29, 2022	A simple framework to evaluate DAOs
January 28, 2022	Uniswap’s governance process is useful inspiration for your DAO
January 27, 2022	ZK vs. Optimistic roll ups
January 26, 2022	The Federal Reserve wants your opinion on a Central Bank Digital Currency
January 25, 2022	Data & analytics in web3 is a massive opportunity
January 24, 2022	Protocols vs. platforms: the web3 debate that everyone weighing in on
January 23, 2022	Root cause for Solana's network problems
January 22, 2022	Subscription models in web3 and why I'm excited about them
January 21, 2022	EPNS solves a critical pain point for web3 applications
January 20, 2022	Decentralised governance may be the future, but it isn’t easy
January 19, 2022	If you're a creator, Mirror.xyz may be the platform you've been missing
January 18, 2022	Cross-chain interoperability is a problem worth solving in web3
January 17, 2022	Build on web3 by starting a community, not a DAO
January 16, 2022	How decentralised is your web3 platform? It's important to know.
January 15, 2022	Basics of smart contracts for non-technical web3 users
January 14, 2022	Understand how DAOs make money so you can assess them
January 13, 2022	Scaling with L1s and L2s
January 11, 2022	PRFAQ: Freelance DAO
January 10, 2022	Web3’s flaws = opportunities
January 9, 2022	What can web3 solve?
January 8, 2022	When DAOs it make sense?
January 7, 2022	Storing data in web3
January 6, 2022	A decentralised marketplace
January 5, 2022	Transaction pending on Ethereum?
January 4, 2022	Building a decentralised website