“Different is better than better” – Sachit Gupta

My advice that I'd go to jail for (provided anyone would listen to me) is "let's focus our energies on fixing the old corrupt systems rather than tilting at the windmills of eliminating the bad people." Efforts to fix bad people always get lots of supporters, but never seem to get any actual positive results.

At this point, I am feeling subscription fatigue and have no desire to sign up for any more annual subscriptions. It is like buying twenty-five albums to listen to twenty-five songs. Instead, I want an experience like Spotify, where my subscription pays for all the music I enjoy. I want my Twitter subscription to pay for what I am reading. By the w... See more

What makes crypto unique is its potential to expand on that familiar framework. The principal innovation of crypto networks is their ability to grow network effects by enabling users to share in the value they create.

Or take HEY. HEY has tens of thousands of paying customers. For us that's a win. For Google/Gmail it would be a huge failure. They need a whole lot more to make something worth it. We need a whole lot less to make it a spectacular success. HEY has tens of thousands of users. Gmail has a billion. So are we "losing" to Gmail? Or are HEY and Gmail bot... See more

On upwork when they went public avg job size was $500

-Clear applications for contribution and affiliation data. Valuable applications of this data create the incentives for bringing more of it on-chain. This is one of the primary reasons we launched Backdrop, but there will be many different platforms all building on top of this same data.