Fixing Money with Bitcoin and the Unlikely Leap from Architecture to Stacks with Will Corcoran (Ep. 7)

Episode 7 • 27th July 2022 • Unraveling Crypto • Vane Vargas

Will Corcoran spent 20 years as an architect before becoming more than a little disillusioned and looking for a different path. Bitcoin wasn’t the likely successor, but a lecture by Muneeb, the co-founder of Stacks, piqued his curiosity enough to reorient toward something he didn’t fully understand yet but knew had powerful potential to solve challenges he saw around him, particularly with how money is created, spent, and transferred. Now, he’s the Grants Program Manager at the Stacks Foundation, and actively contributing to building the path forward.

I sat down with Will to talk about how he moved from architecture to Stacks, why fixing money with Bitcoin excites him so much, why he feels a bigger focus on design is so desperately needed in the web3 space, and how he relies on practices like yoga and swimming to keep a clear head in the fast moving space of web3.

Meet Our Guest

Will manages the grants program at the Stacks Foundation. He's spent the last 15 years serving as a team and project management lead in the architectural design industry. Will is a licensed architect and has successfully facilitated collaborative processes as both an architect and construction manager.

Connect with Will on Twitter: @corcoranwill

What We Unraveled

* Will’s role as the Grants Program Manager at the Stacks Foundation, his background in architecture, and why he feels a bigger focus on design is so desperately needed in the web3 space

* What inspired Will to make the unlikely jump from architecture to web3 after falling in love with Bitcoin

* What drew Will into learning more about the underlying technology of crypto in the first place

* How Will found his way to working with Stacks specifically

* The first steps Will recommends to people starting in the web3 space to join in and add value, especially if you don’t have a tech background

* Why the Stacks community is so welcoming and a great place to start

* Why the relationships he’s building is exciting Will the most about being part of the web3 space

* What Will believes the space needs technical and non-technical people to create the kind of user experience that will draw in the next billion users, and why design is so important

* Why Will believes there’s no ceiling when it comes to problems that can be solved by crypto and web3 technology

* How Will stays sane in a space that moves ten times faster than the world outside

Unravel Further

Stacks Open Internet Foundation

Stacks

Grants Channel Stacks Server

Muneeb (Stacks Co-Founder)

Bitcoin

Ethereum

Don Tapscott on web

Don Tapscott on Coursera

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