A product manager’s guide to web3

Many teams may not even know they need a product manager. Focus on the value you can offer by working backward from their problems, their goals, and their community ethos, and find alignment in your own interests and experience.

3. Ape In: Reach out, evaluate, and join a web3 team

2. Search: Find teams you love

1. Learn: Read, use, build

What’s the best path into a web3 gig?

As a PM, you have to consider these matters far more directly than in most web2 organizations, where legal is more secondary at this point. You liaise with counsel to understand a fragmented and undefined legal environment, unlike today in web2, where most legal matters have been settled and product counsels are there to enable but not guide busine... See more

10. Regulatory concerns have mostly shifted from web2 to web3.

Moreover, in web3, users realistically cannot audit every smart contract, so the burden of ensuring that an app is secure and trustworthy on behalf of your users is higher in web3 given what is at stake in each interaction.

9. You must prioritize user security, because with every transaction there are funds at stake. Security is paramount in the space because all transactions stem from the same place: the web3 wallet.