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“Web 2.0” vs. “Web3”
January 17th, 2023
In 2006, Paul Graham wrote a great post wherein he concluded that Web 2.0 was a credible term because it meant “using the web the way it's meant to be used.” I think this is a good lens to interpret the term Web3, and why it is still a useful term, in-spite of its baggage and any associated misdirection.
The Ownership Economy 2022
May 24th, 2022
By Li Jin, Geoff Hamilton, Jesse Walden, Spencer Noon, Derek Walkush and Medha Kothari
NFTs make the internet ownable
February 15th, 2021
Before tech, I was an artist manager in music. When I started the firm, I believed one thing about the music industry very firmly: ownership endows power. Typically, labels had ownership over the music, and thus, power over artists.