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title: "Building a $20b Behemoth : Office Hours with Steven Goldfeder of Offchain Labs"
description: "Join Steven Goldfeder of Offchain Labs to learn how he built Arbitrum into a $21B web3 platform and revolutionized blockchain scaling through innovative dev relations."
categories: ["office hours"]
keywords: ["Offchain Labs","Arbitrum","blockchain scaling","layer 2 solutions","web3 development","decentralized finance","crypto trends","developer relations","venture capital","Ethereum"]
ai_summary: "Learn how Steven Goldfeder built Arbitrum into a $21B web3 platform and transformed blockchain scaling through innovative strategies."
date: 2024-02-14
lastmod: 2026-07-31
canonical_url: https://www.tomtunguz.com/office-hours-steven-goldfeder-announcement/
author: "Tomasz Tunguz"
---

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On February 23rd at 10am Pacific time, Office Hours will host Steven Goldfeder. Steven founded Offchain Labs, the company behind Arbitrum, a web3 project worth $21b as of this writing.   

Arbitrum is a L2, a layer 2, that sits atop Ethereum, improving its performance & cost to write transactions.

Steven authored many of the [seminal papers](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y1-H-qcAAAAJ&hl=en) behind modern blockchains. 

More than innovating technically, Steven has guided Offchain Labs' developer relations strategy in a unique way in the ecosystem. Arbitrum has ammassed more than $12b of assets on their platform (called total value locked or TVL) via that strategy.

During this Office Hours, Steven & I will talk about :
- Steven's strategy behind developer relations & how other web3 companies can apply it
- the role today & in the future of the L2 databases 
- the new stack for developing web3 applications
- upcoming trends for crypto across the major usage categories : stablecoins for payments, decentralized finance, & NFTs

If you’re interested to attend, [please register here](https://gatsby.events/rsvp/office-hours-with-steven-goldfeder/theory-ventures/register). As always, submit questions through the registration form & I’ll weave them into the conversation.

I look forward to welcoming Steven to Office Hours!