Founders of Web 3
Very Good Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/founders-of-web-3/id1511782129
Muneeb Ali of Blockstack
Former Academic Researcher at Princeton.
He tells about the 2016 Decentralized Web Summit as an historic event with:
Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of www) Vint Cerf (inventor of TCP/IP)
He compares Ethereum to a Mainframe and Blockstack to network of desktops
Probably most people will not come to web 3 for the privacy and censorship resistence but if they can make money with a web 3 app.
If you have your content on medium or twitter today, the company is making the money, not you
Brock Pierce of Block One
In the 2000s he made a lot of money with farming and trading in-game currencies like WoW Gold from Asia.
He co-founded Blockchain Capital the first blockchain VC, and with them conducted the first STO (Security Token Offering). As co-founder of EOS he conducted not just the largest ICO but largest crowdfunding event in history raising $4bn. As an investor, he was one of the largest backers of Ethereum ICO but also cofounded Tether the first asset-backed stablecoin.
https://eos.io/eos-public-blockchain/
He tells the Venture Capital should be given Step by Step after Milestones are achived. Not all money at once like in the 2017 ICO Mania.
Also World Wide Venture Capital should be given to local Funds who know country and can be better at building communities and ecosystems.
Rene Reinsberg of Celo
He is from near Berlin and has Team working in Berlin
They are building Celo for a more efficient financial system, a mobile-first platform solution based upon secure and stable digital currencies, to get money to parts of the economy that need it most