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Ben Rubin

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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

Did they actually go to the school? Did they actually, you know, all of these things are going to have some sort of way online to verify that they happen. And I think that that brings a new type of graph, uh, that, uh,

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

Did they actually go to the school? Did they actually, you know, all of these things are going to have some sort of way online to verify that they happen. And I think that that brings a new type of graph, uh, that, uh,

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

Did they actually go to the school? Did they actually, you know, all of these things are going to have some sort of way online to verify that they happen. And I think that that brings a new type of graph, uh, that, uh,

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

It's important for us as builder to be curious about and see, can we create a better internet when we are not organizing people based on self-attestation, but actually based on the things that they have done and experienced? And can we create better conversations like this and much more grounded conversation? So short stories. Yes, I do a lot of things in crypto, but I'm definitely not motivated.

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

It's important for us as builder to be curious about and see, can we create a better internet when we are not organizing people based on self-attestation, but actually based on the things that they have done and experienced? And can we create better conversations like this and much more grounded conversation? So short stories. Yes, I do a lot of things in crypto, but I'm definitely not motivated.

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

It's important for us as builder to be curious about and see, can we create a better internet when we are not organizing people based on self-attestation, but actually based on the things that they have done and experienced? And can we create better conversations like this and much more grounded conversation? So short stories. Yes, I do a lot of things in crypto, but I'm definitely not motivated.

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

The motivation is not crypto by itself. The motivation is how do you create a group of 10,000 people or 100,000 people where they're there because they have the same things to gain and the same things to lose. And that's the kind of conversation they have. And I think the internet become much more powerful like this.

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

The motivation is not crypto by itself. The motivation is how do you create a group of 10,000 people or 100,000 people where they're there because they have the same things to gain and the same things to lose. And that's the kind of conversation they have. And I think the internet become much more powerful like this.

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

The motivation is not crypto by itself. The motivation is how do you create a group of 10,000 people or 100,000 people where they're there because they have the same things to gain and the same things to lose. And that's the kind of conversation they have. And I think the internet become much more powerful like this.

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

And to your point, everything exists in a balance. So when you look at the things that are like, you know, not the hottest things right now, you have to ask yourself, okay, How do they compare? How do they, and if at all, are they in dialogue with the thing that is hot? And what is the kind of energy that is balancing it?

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

And to your point, everything exists in a balance. So when you look at the things that are like, you know, not the hottest things right now, you have to ask yourself, okay, How do they compare? How do they, and if at all, are they in dialogue with the thing that is hot? And what is the kind of energy that is balancing it?

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

And to your point, everything exists in a balance. So when you look at the things that are like, you know, not the hottest things right now, you have to ask yourself, okay, How do they compare? How do they, and if at all, are they in dialogue with the thing that is hot? And what is the kind of energy that is balancing it?

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

Because you can think about it almost like as one of the most interesting things as an observer, as a builder in the space. And you and I have been around the block, I don't know, for 13 years more doing what we do. I find it so interesting that AI is this, let's think about the motivation of AI, the set of ideas that it is. It's highly centralized. In order to run a service like OpenAI,

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

Because you can think about it almost like as one of the most interesting things as an observer, as a builder in the space. And you and I have been around the block, I don't know, for 13 years more doing what we do. I find it so interesting that AI is this, let's think about the motivation of AI, the set of ideas that it is. It's highly centralized. In order to run a service like OpenAI,

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

Because you can think about it almost like as one of the most interesting things as an observer, as a builder in the space. And you and I have been around the block, I don't know, for 13 years more doing what we do. I find it so interesting that AI is this, let's think about the motivation of AI, the set of ideas that it is. It's highly centralized. In order to run a service like OpenAI,

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

But like all of the, all of the, those companies need to be massive and hold a huge amount of information, right? Not only that, it is also creating the type of content that is looking back and replicating itself to create above average answers, right?

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

But like all of the, all of the, those companies need to be massive and hold a huge amount of information, right? Not only that, it is also creating the type of content that is looking back and replicating itself to create above average answers, right?

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

But like all of the, all of the, those companies need to be massive and hold a huge amount of information, right? Not only that, it is also creating the type of content that is looking back and replicating itself to create above average answers, right?

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

So AI is this kind of like, oh, the internet had got to the place of maturity, both on the computation level and the centralization level that it can actually become its own being and self reproduce. And on the other side, you have crypto, which is actually working on the opposite direction, which is how can you enumerate identities and make proofs and,