ETHDenver Interviews: Opolis and our ETHDenver Steward, Shannon

[Music] hey everybody we're in the shill zone with khadijah from los angeles and it's her first eat denver she's with opolis and she's going to tell us what she's all excited about this weekend what are you looking forward to i'm looking for all the um interesting clothes all the the cool vibes the nfts um the arguments about you know what coin is better i'm looking to see you know the web two coming to the web three i'm here to see the developers you know i'm just here to rock out and see everybody that i know in person awesome yeah i'm looking forward to those arguments about which coin is better as well so khadija you work with opolis do you want to tell us a little bit about opolis so i work for opolis um the founder of opolis is um john paler which is the the founder of denver so it's just it's wonderful to work for his company we actually give independent workers benefits so if you are a 1099 um worker if you are llc if you have a llc with selection c corp all of that we're here to make your life better um so if you come roll your payroll through us we'll be able to give you benefits and you don't have to worry anything about that thank you so much khadijah this is awesome we're all really excited this weekend thanks for the interview thanks for your time hey everybody we're in the show zone we're here with shannon she's originally from denver and uh have you been here helping out with east denver since 2018 no i came on 2019. same year as me yeah i heard that my hometown was going really big with crypto and i got super excited so i came into 2019 started by volunteering that's how they get you they pull you into the ecosystem and i've been doing sponsor stewardship ever since and these are these are our people you've been around a long time too it's it's obviously grown shannon so what are you excited about what are you afraid about this year like given that it is so large like what what are your sort of expectations and concerns so we're super excited because this means that you know we might be going mainstream we're actually getting like broader adoption we are 5x our normal size this year so it's exciting it's a little scary for us as organizers because we're not sure how it's going to go we've got six venues rather than one we've got all of eleven thousand people coming we have seven thousand people on the wait list that we would love to join us too so it's exciting that we've got so many people coming it's scary for us but the best thing is that the tools that are going to help free our world are getting more and more attention and they're getting more and more brains on them so that means that we are going to have better startups bigger projects going out and more freedom for everyone very well put shannon thank you so much for your time