 My name is Dana Frain. I am a researcher. I am Josh Jones. I work at Chainsafe Systems as a rest developer on the forest team. My name is Julia Armbrust and I'm a UX designer. My name is Niki. I am part of the Outrocore slash ecosystem growth team. I'm Darryl. I am from Metapels. My name is Faisal Javed and I am working as a people operation manager with Protocol Labs, specific with the member services. So I'm Patrick. I work on the DRUN team within Protocol Labs and I'm a software developer. I'm Angelo Shelly. I work for Protocol Labs. I'm in the Outrocore Ecosystems team. I work on the storage provider enablement side. I'm Stefanie Magdalinski. I am a senior fellow at the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, which is probably the longest job title I've ever had. The energy is so infectious here and just being able to go to events and meet people who have been through Launchpad themselves and talk with them about their journeys has really been great. Obviously I was really excited by the work that PL was doing and it's interesting too, like in the people ops role I was really involved and really integrated with the org but some of the more technical stuff I kind of just had to sit on the sidelines and watch happen and you know learn about but really wanted to get back involved. So once I made this transition and became a UX designer I reached back out to see if there were any UX opportunities and I think in the web free space UX opportunities abound. I got exposed into the fundamentals. I like that initially they kind of ask you like what is your knowledge on Web 3 and I was kind of like oh that's new. I would have thought that it is just diving right into PL or Filecoin, IPFS and all the different great products but it's actually trying to allow you to understand what are some of the fundamentals before you dive right in and of course as you dive deeper into it and to kind of share with you what's in the live P2P what's IPFS, what does it actually do, what are some of the use cases. So that's been quite I would say interesting so far for me because I'm not a developer. I'm actually in the operations role right so that definitely helped me a little bit understand what my CTO is actually doing and what you know the larger PL group of products have to offer for me. So yeah that's been you know what's been like leading up to Color Week so far. It's been, Launchpad has been great. I feel like I have learned so much in a short amount of time and I think as well I just feel more confident in my ability to contribute to Web 3 and I feel like transitioning from Web 2 to Web 3 seemed very intimidating a few weeks ago but now I feel like I have the tools to be able to to go out and do that. You know I used to work as a chemical engineer before in plants and I feel like level of engagement and excitement it's just great in this space in this industry so like it's a complete 180 from you know what I was doing before. But it's sometimes hard to actually set aside time to read through all the documentation, watch all the videos. There are so many videos and so many great talks. When you're working in a full-time role it can be really hard to set aside that space. So Launchpad has been really great for me just because there is time for dedicated learning and I feel like I understand so much more now like what is behind the scenes of IPFS and Filecoin and again the network has grown so big and I'm like learning new things every day and new tools. Is the cohort that we have it is so diverse and people come in from not just like PL but the companies that PLN has and that really gives perspective and we don't meet like builders or like PLN companies on a day-to-day basis like at such an immersive level. So that's been amazing and I think Colovic has just like magnified that because it's great to be a sink and it's great to have so many people from everywhere but just like meeting them in real life. I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get a sense of the PL culture, our tech stack, what's driving us and like what's our missions. I'm the opportunity for us to not just interact people within the Launchpad team but also the larger Filecoin ecosystem. You know that's been really great because that kind of just opened up so many doors for us you know unknowingly because you know we thought that it was just the Launchpad crew but it's not. It's actually much bigger than that and we actually get to speak to one Bennett just yesterday. We didn't know he was at the Filecoin meeting so that's an exposure that I don't think you're going to get if you know we didn't know about the Launchpad program. When you started PL you kind of have to deep dive straight into something very specific and then you kind of lose focus of all the rest that's out there. Getting to know everybody, all the different projects and all the different ecosystems around you're kind of like learning that you can use a lot of it and you don't need to like go and invent everything yourself so you can just leverage everything that's out there will help you on your journey. Yeah that's the big thing. Yeah you just don't know there's so many things that I've seen just this week that I'm oh yeah that something I don't have to go do I can just reuse. Launchpad literally opened a new world for me so it's more like seeing a lot of new things which I was I don't have exposure to and a lot of learnings about Web3 I literally got through the content we have designed for Launchpad residents I go through a lot of things and I got to learn about a lot of the protocols we are using specifically in Portable Labs so it's more like a new world for me and I am still learning a lot of things and specifically on Kolo week it's been an amazing journey for me meeting a lot of people and getting to know everyone here and people are doing a lot of stuff here and I'm happy that I came here to Paris for this Kolo week because it's amazing for me. Highly recommended to anybody who's new to the ecosystem or just like trying to figure out what's their place what's the place that will drive them in Web3. As soon as I did Launchpad I wish that I'd done Launchpad when I first joined because it really filled out a lot of the gaps Launchpad was really the first time I got to meet a broad range of people from across the ecosystem some of whom have been there a while some of them are new joiners and it's really incredibly valuable to have those kinds of real world interactions rather than just hanging out on Zoom all day.