3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform
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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. 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.
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.
I want to summarize our entire conversation in four steps. So this is what I've learned. This is what I've learned from this conversation. How to create a product people want. Okay, so Ben Rubin, live from Soho. Ben is the guy that I call if I have a big idea. He always knows, it feels like he always knows where things are, the direction where things are going. So if I ever need a gut check, text Ben, hey, I'm thinking about this big idea. What do you think? He's sold a company to Epic Games, House Party. He started Meerkat, which was a... live streaming it was ig live before ig live was a thing and now he's working in the crypto space and building well we'll talk more about it but he's building kind of community infrastructure for the crypto web um so when when ben talks i listen and he's got a ton of crypto ideas that he came prepared with and i know people some people are listening to this and i would say 93 of our audience
isn't in the crypto world. So their guards are up.
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. 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.
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. 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? 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,
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 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.
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