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Adam Jackson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
632 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

So whether that token's worth 10 cents or a dollar is not actually that relevant to the operation of the network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

You can buy them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Well, they can't buy them from us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

They'd have to go to Coinbase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

I mean, it's not irrelevant, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

But the functionality of the token doesn't depend on cash value, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

The folks that have earned, we've had 40,000 plus folks earn tokens over the last couple of years in exchange for helping build the network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Invite talent, vet the talent, invite clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

A lot of those, the vast majority of those folks have kept their tokens because they represent control, influence, voting power over the network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

And that's where the cash value piece doesn't matter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

It's always one token, one vote, no matter what the token's worth in US dollar terms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

You got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

The other 65% is basically sitting in treasury waiting to be given out to further contributors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Two entities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

First is the code itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

So the network software itself runs the referral engine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

So if Nathan Latka comes in, goes to Braintrust.com, creates an account as a connector, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

There's talent who do the work, there's clients who hire the talent, and then there's connectors who are essentially people making intros.