ecause if you think about, if you unpack what does Web3 mean? And if it really boils down to the financialization of everything, there's three distinct buckets of it in my mind. There's a speculative sphere because you can now tokenize so many different things, the opportunity for markets and best execution and price discovery and all these things ... See more
Braintrust focused on product/market fit and network transactions before going into Ethereum mainnet. Many projects don't go further than a white paper whereas Braintrust built supply and demand early and then went through the process of bringing things on chain.
Coinbase lets people buy and sell cryptocurrencies, but in every other way, it’s like a centralized exchange on which you’d trade equities, bonds, currencies, or commodities.
The possibility of Remote work will create a liquid global talent marketplace, unshackling employment and geography and giving the best employees more optionality than they’ve ever had.
This brings us back to Earnin and Public. These optional payment models, what you might call business models of reciprocity, also operate like communities. They are implemented in software and so do not have the same sense of physical, local community, but community is still the underlying value system.