Jesse Walden @jessewldn
Jesse Walden is the founder of Variant Fund, a venture firm built around his influential thesis of the ownership economy — the idea that the next generation of platforms will be owned by their users. Before Variant he was a partner at a16z crypto, and earlier co-founded Mediachain Labs, a blockchain media-attribution startup acquired by Spotify. His essays and threads on user ownership, crypto business models and consumer crypto have shaped how founders and investors frame the space. Roughly 57k followers — dense with founders, VCs and product thinkers — treat his feed as required reading on where crypto meets company building.
Why follow
- The ownership-economy framework, from its originator, applied to live market developments.
- Investor-grade analysis of crypto business models and consumer applications.
- A feed that reliably signals which theses smart crypto capital is organizing around.
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