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Ben Rubin

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357 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Crypto not crypto, blockchain is a fantastic solution to the idea of how do you enumerate value on the internet and trust for it in a way that is, just by science, trustworthy. And I think that ultimately benefits the receiver of the value that you're creating online and you. in an open market that people can in transparent way acknowledge each other's value and trust.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Crypto not crypto, blockchain is a fantastic solution to the idea of how do you enumerate value on the internet and trust for it in a way that is, just by science, trustworthy. And I think that ultimately benefits the receiver of the value that you're creating online and you. in an open market that people can in transparent way acknowledge each other's value and trust.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Crypto not crypto, blockchain is a fantastic solution to the idea of how do you enumerate value on the internet and trust for it in a way that is, just by science, trustworthy. And I think that ultimately benefits the receiver of the value that you're creating online and you. in an open market that people can in transparent way acknowledge each other's value and trust.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

And that's the layer that we're missing on the internet to take it to a place where accrual value by individual is much more transparent and efficient. The products we're getting for people are better because there is accountability because when you make money, you want to make the product better. You want to retain your customers. You want to make sure that they're happy.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

And that's the layer that we're missing on the internet to take it to a place where accrual value by individual is much more transparent and efficient. The products we're getting for people are better because there is accountability because when you make money, you want to make the product better. You want to retain your customers. You want to make sure that they're happy.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

And that's the layer that we're missing on the internet to take it to a place where accrual value by individual is much more transparent and efficient. The products we're getting for people are better because there is accountability because when you make money, you want to make the product better. You want to retain your customers. You want to make sure that they're happy.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

You want to make sure that they're coming back. You want to make sure they get a V2 and a V3 and a V4. Why? Because when you do that, you make more money.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

You want to make sure that they're coming back. You want to make sure they get a V2 and a V3 and a V4. Why? Because when you do that, you make more money.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

You want to make sure that they're coming back. You want to make sure they get a V2 and a V3 and a V4. Why? Because when you do that, you make more money.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

To be honest, I studied architecture school and I still build digital spaces. And I mean, the crypto side of, you're right, I am backed by crypto investors and I hire crypto engineers and we are in the crypto industry, but By all accounts, the job of what we're building is to build intimacy in the internet without making it smaller.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

To be honest, I studied architecture school and I still build digital spaces. And I mean, the crypto side of, you're right, I am backed by crypto investors and I hire crypto engineers and we are in the crypto industry, but By all accounts, the job of what we're building is to build intimacy in the internet without making it smaller.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

To be honest, I studied architecture school and I still build digital spaces. And I mean, the crypto side of, you're right, I am backed by crypto investors and I hire crypto engineers and we are in the crypto industry, but By all accounts, the job of what we're building is to build intimacy in the internet without making it smaller.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

And blockchain is just a technology that we're using to create a set of communities that are permissionless, meaning anyone can join, but they organize around a new type of graph that is trust. And we'll get into this, but I just wanted to jump in and say like, you know, That's true that if it's walk like a duck and it talks like a duck, it's maybe a duck and it quacks like whatever the saying is.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

And blockchain is just a technology that we're using to create a set of communities that are permissionless, meaning anyone can join, but they organize around a new type of graph that is trust. And we'll get into this, but I just wanted to jump in and say like, you know, That's true that if it's walk like a duck and it talks like a duck, it's maybe a duck and it quacks like whatever the saying is.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

And blockchain is just a technology that we're using to create a set of communities that are permissionless, meaning anyone can join, but they organize around a new type of graph that is trust. And we'll get into this, but I just wanted to jump in and say like, you know, That's true that if it's walk like a duck and it talks like a duck, it's maybe a duck and it quacks like whatever the saying is.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

But we fundamentally see our job as here and what we do is how do we create a more intimate space? And blockchain just is a way to get people to trust that the other side of the people on the keyboard actually have the same things to lose and the same things to gain by the information that they're sharing together.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

But we fundamentally see our job as here and what we do is how do we create a more intimate space? And blockchain just is a way to get people to trust that the other side of the people on the keyboard actually have the same things to lose and the same things to gain by the information that they're sharing together.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

But we fundamentally see our job as here and what we do is how do we create a more intimate space? And blockchain just is a way to get people to trust that the other side of the people on the keyboard actually have the same things to lose and the same things to gain by the information that they're sharing together.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

And I think that's where the internet is going and where a lot of value is going to come, especially as it's expanding in the speed of light. And with AI, like in 10 years from now, it's going to be really important to know this person on the other side really did what they do? Do they really have the same amount of, you know, podcast listeners? Do they actually live in Miami?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

And I think that's where the internet is going and where a lot of value is going to come, especially as it's expanding in the speed of light. And with AI, like in 10 years from now, it's going to be really important to know this person on the other side really did what they do? Do they really have the same amount of, you know, podcast listeners? Do they actually live in Miami?

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