Timour Kosters

Digital Object Applications

For the first time in human history, blockchains empower any digital object to enjoy the properties of verifiable scarcity, durability, divisibility, and globally networked markets.

As a result, these internet-optimized objects now have the same or greater potential to become globally networked as a (1) product/service;... See more

Dao efficiency parity forecast. The flipenning of DAOs creating more value than tradcos - Tradcos learn linearly - DAOs have strong network effects, both internally but also learning from each other. This creates an exponential learning rate.- We're still early in DAOs. Figuring stuff out - Bitcoin is a dao - We’ve learned about Governance tokens -... See more

DAOs will likely become large networks with shared incentives and coordination tools, made up of smaller units (which can still be quite bit) that act in a more directed and centralized way.

Perhaps the most compelling—and the most likely—force to power tech in the 2020s is artificial intelligence. AI has improved dramatically within the past few years.

I think of product-market fit as the transition moment you feel as a founder when you go from "pushing" your product on people to them "pulling" it out of your hands. But the path to get there is deeply personal. One founder’s journey to product-market fit may look totally different from another’s, and yet both paths could be completely valid —

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But over the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of clamoring for what comes next. Virtual reality? Augmented reality? Autonomous vehicles? Web3?

Perhaps no use of AI is more visible to more people than TikTok’s For You Page. They have pioneered using AI to create incredible recommendations.