What do you think about the current state of the Web 3.0 field?
Yuta Hayakawa (hereinafter, Hayakawa): After the winter of 2023, I think that the number of projects that only aim for a temporary boom is decreasing, and projects with real value are spreading. Specifically, I feel that there is a growing awareness that it is difficult to expect continuous development unless value is provided to the outside world, capital is acquired, and the ecosystem is expanded, rather than ending with funds from new users circulating within the project, as in the Ponzi schemes that existed in large numbers since the ICO era in 2017.
In addition, it is understood that the market will not expand with an exclusive idea that "Web 3.0 is supreme and Web 2.0 is not good", and there are increasing efforts to involve traditional platformers, which I think should be the entry point, even if there are pros and cons. The gap between the two is bigger than people in Web 3.0 think, and the pure Web 3.0 area is still a limited market, so it will remain as one narrow industry, and a transition period is necessary, as it will not be possible to shift the whole from Web 2.0 to 3.0.
Personally, I think it is attractive that Web 3.0 is easy to build a model that is self-sustaining and easy to attract contributors, like DAO, and I imagine that by demonstrating the success of such organizations and projects, it will become common in Web 2.0 as well.
In the future, we will make WAVEE autonomous
What kind of appeal do you want to deliver through your company's projects and services, and what do you want to achieve?
Hayakawa: We are trying to achieve "the best match between people and companies" by autonomously connecting a wide range of human resources and corporate networks owned by individuals and recruitment agencies.
Specifically, by supporting your favorite friends and acquaintances and inviting them to WAVEE, you can provide them with more work and reward opportunities. Not only full-time employees, but also part-timers, freelancers, and even business owners are eligible, and they have actually acquired jobs and projects that suit them.
In addition, when an invitation is made, both the inviter and the invitee are given an NFT, and every time the invitee contributes to matching a job, WAVEE will permanently provide both NFT holders with a "matching reward" that is not normally distributed. In this way, WAVEE's ecosystem is gradually expanding.
For companies, the system allows invitations from their own employees to spread gradually, and as "birds of a feather flock together," it greatly expands the pool of talent that fits the company's culture, and this autonomous structure has significantly reduced recruitment costs compared to the past. In addition, we plan to eventually build an effective system that operates autonomously in matching people and companies with almost no intervention from WAVEE.
Future outlook ▶
Building a "birds of a feather flock together" model with NFTs, and looking to turn WAVEE into a DAO in the future
Profile
◉ Yuta Hayakawa
CEO of WAVEE Inc.
Since 2010, he has studied AI at Keio University and the University of Tokyo. He has launched several new services at Rakuten. As CTO at TECHFUND, he supported numerous startups and new business ventures of large corporations. In 2018, he also released Blockchain as a Service. He founded AgeTech's Famitora and raised a total of 1.7 billion yen as CTO/CSO. He launched WAVEE as CGO at Egg Forward, which was then carved out and established WAVEE Inc.
