Peers Inc

Roumen Vesselinov and John Grego, “Duolingo Effectiveness Study,” report published by Duolingo, December 2012, www.duolingo.com/effectiveness-study.

One giant downside to platforms results directly from their ability to scale very fast and have similarly dizzying reductions in their costs per participant: They tend to become monopolies.

Peers Inc rewrites the rules for value creation: Shared resources unlock the greatest efficiencies, shared minds the greatest innovation.

There is more than enough physical stuff already; we just need to think about and organize it differently.

The earliest assets leveraged are peers’ excess capacity. This idea isn’t unique to Bitcoin as you now well know. The

One of the best examples of a government unlocking excess capacity is when the United States opened up the space-based Global Positioning System, which was originally built to aid in deterrence of nuclear attack during the Cold War.

POWER PARITY (PHASE 4) The solution to building a long-term sustainable organization is to seek power equilibrium, the last stage and an ever-shifting almost-steady state.

Imagine if people could make their own money.

What distinguishes and transforms these activities is that platforms connect, organize, aggregate, and empower the participating peers.