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Adam Jackson

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632 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

There's no reason to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

The way our token works and I'll start by saying it is not a payment layer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

All the jobs done when your friend joins from Airbnb and does contracts with Pepsi, that's all done in cash.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

OK, we don't need another payment layer right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

Um, our token, the brain trust token is used as an incentive mechanism.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

So we use it to reward people for building our network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

What does that mean?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

That could mean actually coding and building the software for brain trust, but more, more likely it's inviting new talent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

helping vet that talent we have a peer-to-peer vetting system so it's not just us vetting everybody and inviting clients so we we've raised a modest seed round we're not you know most companies go raise hundreds of millions of dollars they build out giant sales and marketing and product teams how much we've raised six million so far okay and so we we actually instead of hiring all those people in-house we have our network do it for us refer clients refer talent all those things

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

And we give them our token in exchange for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

And so our token is used as an incentive mechanism.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

So here's the story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

So let me back out to the real premise that makes us unique and different here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

My co-founder and I, Gabe, we firmly believe that user-owned and controlled networks will grow faster and be more valuable than

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

than founder and investor owned networks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

OK, so very different ownership paradigm here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

And so how do you allow 10 million people in 50 countries to own and control the network, vote on the rules and all that stuff?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

Well, you just can't do it with shares of a Delaware Sea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

It's physically impossible, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

It's logistically impossible.