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create a Braintrust. Every creative person, no matter their field, can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace. “You can and should make your own solution group,” Andrew Stanton says, adding that on each of his own films, he has made a point of doing this on a smaller scale, separate fr

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Rosenman. Roosevelt called the group his privy council. James Kieran, writing in The New York Times, referred to it as “FDR’s brains trust.”64 That name, shortened to “brain trust,” stuck. Roosevelt did not use the brain trust, or privy council, to provide him with new ideas. He engaged its members to flesh out, articulate, and refine the position

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The simple idea behind Braintrust is that it is a talent network that charges Clients an industry-low 10% fee and actually pays Talent a negative take rate by rewarding them with tokens, and that the only way for those things to change is for the users who would be impacted to vote to change them.

Going back to how a lot of investors operate, it's very ego-driven. It's very driven by one personality or a bunch of lone wolves who happen to run in a pack, and I don't think that's how capital deployment should work. I genuinely believe we need a hive mind, and that's what we've done at Initialized.

The referral engine for Braintrust is a permissionless system - anyone that shows up and brings talent or clients to the network can be rewarded in BTRUST tokens. There is no cash comp in the referral engine, but various core teams get paid in cash.