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For Clear, an identity verification company that serves airline passengers, the slowdown seemed like an existential threat. Clear’s 5 million members pay for an annual subscription that lets them travel through security lines faster at more than 60 airports and sports arenas around the U.S.

I think we focus way too much on getting non-web3 people to do web3 things, as opposed to making web3 things work for non-web3 people.

Would tokenizing make sense for MetaMask? It doesn't seem like a slam dunk. For one thing, MetaMask hasn't publicly articulated an explicit idea of what functionality a token would serve. Past discussions have apparently mentioned such a token allowing customers to upvote potential new features, called a "token-weighted backlog." According to... See more

I think that there has been a shift towards this very formulaic driven growth in enterprise software which is very unhealthy. There is a calculation of well here's my CAC, here's my LTV, here's my payback period, I'm ready to sell, let me hire 50 sales reps and let's push this into the market, and three years down the line all the assumptions that... See more

I love the idealism of the Web3 vision, but we’ve been there before. During my career, we have gone through several cycles of decentralization and recentralization. The personal computer decentralized computing by providing a commodity PC architecture that anyone could build and that no one controlled. But Microsoft figured out how to recentralize... See more

Even though it isn’t necessarily true, people equate having choices with having control.