Inflection Points
Inflection Points
Podcast Description
The smartest teams in crypto aren’t chasing users anymore. They’re decoding them. There’s a shift underway—from “growth at any cost” to Intelligence-Driven Growth. Inflection Points zooms in on the pivotal choices, moments, and mechanics that changed a protocol’s path—from token design and incentive shifts to narrative flips and strategy pivots. This isn’t about hindsight. It’s about what turned the curve—and who saw it coming.
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The podcast focuses on intelligence-driven growth in the cryptocurrency market, exploring pivotal choices and strategies that lead to sustainable growth. Episode topics include staking implications, user incentive structures, and case studies on protocols like Solana and Marinade, showcasing lessons learned from case studies like the rise of memecoins as stress tests for infrastructure.
The smartest teams in crypto aren’t chasing users anymore. They’re decoding them. There’s a shift underway—from “growth at any cost” to Intelligence-Driven Growth. Inflection Points zooms in on the pivotal choices, moments, and mechanics that changed a protocol’s path—from token design and incentive shifts to narrative flips and strategy pivots. This isn’t about hindsight. It’s about what turned the curve—and who saw it coming.
From bots gaming incentives to dashboards chasing vanity metrics, crypto’s growth model is overdue for a reset.
In this episode of Inflection Points, Flipside co-founders Jim Myers (CTO) and Eric Stone (Chief Data Scientist) join host Jack Purdy to unpack how AI, user scoring, and probabilistic design are redefining what “growth” even means in Web3.
Drawing on lessons from early Flipside experiments to today’s cutting-edge MCP growth engine, they explore:
- Why growth in crypto shifted from vibes ➝ metrics ➝ intelligence
- How user scoring works—and what makes a wallet “high-value”
- Why airdrops have failed—and how probabilistic incentives can fix them
- The rise of autonomous agents and what they unlock for ecosystem teams
- How Intelligence-Driven Growth changes what—and who—growth teams look like
- What’s next for Flipside, AI, and capital allocation across the entire crypto stack
If you’re navigating incentive design, building user segmentation strategies, or trying to get more signal from your data, this episode offers a look into the operating system behind crypto’s next growth curve.
👋 0:00 – Welcome, and what does growth even mean in crypto?
📉 10:21 – The broken growth model: vibes and vanity metrics
📊 11:03 – The flawed metrics that still guide protocols
🧠 11:26 – How to identify, score, and act on high-value users
💸 22:10 – Airdrops reimagined: from spray-and-pray to probabilistic precision
🚀 23:03 – What’s next for incentives: smarter distributions, better results
🤖 27:27 – AI as crypto’s new growth operating system
🧱 33:06 – How agents move past dashboards to unlock distribution
🧠 38:14 – Avoiding hallucination in AI-led strategy
🎙️ 51:46 – Post-convo reflections: a new era of intelligence-driven growth
Want to dig deeper into the principles of Intelligence-Driven Growth?
👉 Read the Intelligence-Driven Growth Playbook
📊 Learn about Flipside's ecosystem growth engine
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