Connor McEwen, Engineering Lead at Uniswap Labs

Published: June 15, 2022, 11:30 a.m.

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Andrew Xu and Daniel Aboul-Hassan speak with Connor McEwen (@connormcewen) from Uniswap Labs!

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Uniswap allows people to swap, earn, and build on the leading decentralized crypto trading protocol.

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(0:32) - Introduction

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(1:22) - What led Connor to join Dorm Room Fund

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(2:52) - Deciding whether or not take a gap year during college

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(4:24) - Important lessons learned from returning to school

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(6:11) - Experience launching makeBU

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(8:48) - Being on the engineering side & what people on the Business and Engineering sides can learn from each other

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(10:55) - How Connor approached joining a large company vs. startup

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(14:20) - Is Connor a Bitcoin millionaire? 

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(14:30) - Connor\'s funny story about mining Bitcoin

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(15:31) - How to land an engineering role at an attractive startup

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(18:10) - 2013 startups vs. 2022 startups

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(20:06) - Hottest Web3 take

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(21:43) - How should engineers working at early-stage startups view fundraising?

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(23:31) - Staying up to date in the crypto space 

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Get in touch with Connor!

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Twitter: @connormcewen

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmcewen/

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