1. Living through Unix/Linux systems to anti-spam system to DNS to large scale utility systems and to crypto since last four years i have been bootstrapping most of the projects and learning the lessons as much i could
2. I had conceptualized and designed DNS system few years back that I see more relevant today with so much of Phishing attacks and likewise threats
3. With the advent of web3, i intend to bridge domains between web2 and web3 and turn that into a core crypto startup, probably from the valley
1. Type 1 diabetic, redhead with glasses- bullied a lot. Diabetes nearly killed me, taught me how short life was at 11 years old. Failed founder (so far), had some success. Want to help people and maximise life.
I've been an idea architect/venture designer for some time now and churned out a few ideas I am pursuing at the moment. I had also been involved in stratups technology investing with great value coming up in the most positive direction.
2. What have you done that you are proud of?
Immense value from my investment activities and creating tech products at the prototype stage that will eventually transit to a saleable product.
3. What do you want to try to do before you die?
Take my product and company global and going public with it.
Long story short for this place is that quite some years ago I started to sense the world is going bonkers and there weren't much to be done about it. Permaculture and regenerative practices were and are somewhat known and the concept of 'circular economy' was emerging. There were very little discussion on how we can move from the current system to a regenerative one. As in not how it would actually look like, what needs to be done to get there from what we have now here and what is the scale and pace needed to happen.
Once I had a vision of some sort, I established a startup with a few other people. This was late in 2017 and we knew it was too early for "startup way of doing". But we did not feel like we have a need to get into investor funnel or anything like that. We knew that if it's "bunch of people" it's different from 'a fintech startup' in that to get somewhere and it's a more structured way of making progress.
Since then we've been in numerous hackathons and other events to test our ideas and get feedback. Wood supply-chains, problems on due diligencing on real-world projects for multilateral banks, built environment, agriculture and others. I think we have now a good enough grasp of the problems and potential set of solutions that can drive a real impact.
So, this is 'long story short' way of telling what I'm proud of: grit to think through a systemic change based on our current socio-economic systems. I do have experience from small to international projects in various roles and I've done foodstuff industry, payments, logistics and such even at national level. Maybe I've been helped with the fact I have not felt I need to "prove myself" or "us".
Originally I got this news letter through the wallet chat as Richard looked like a persistent guy in Telegram wallet group. I follow him also on Twitter, but The Algorithm rarely lift his posts on my feed and I rarely chase anyone in particular. We'll see how things turn out here and elsewhere.
As with @James Lamming, agriculture is one are where we are looking at also besides built environment. I am even writing an article about blockchain and agriculture to a local agriculture portal (https://parastapirkanmaalta.fi/) this week. It's not one's usual about food safety and what comes down to track & trace. It is more about 'general ledger' as in Schumpeter, communities and how to transform to sustainable foodchains of the future. (As an aside, I don't think blockchain is good for provenance, maybe colored my experience as a systems architect in Finnish Post back in the day.)
For the U.S. specifically drought is a seeping, huge problem and maybe urban farming are some points of interest. At large supply-chain financing is one framing here. But not the ways in which one can find it being done using that as a search word. Coase theory, positive sum transactions and others like that besides Schumpeter and general ledger may be food for search engine fodder here.
Before I die I of course want to see we are resilient again. My kids, other kids, other beings having a well enough life and options to choose from. So, by 'we' I don't mean just my reference group of people or just humans but an utopian future of harmony. I find it's a worthy thing to try and maybe, general ledger, taking Coase Theory, or arrow of time and thermodynamic theories and translating that to more blockchainey speak of "minimal number of transactions and information" maybe we can use this as common, known vocabulary and the parallel risk capital architecture that has emerged to change how credit risk scoring on capital markets works, to transform accounting without chaning all the laws and regulations and incorporate externalities to accounting and so to GDP.
Or coming closer, or straying, how can we incorporate externalities into money too. One way of seeing this is also that money is chained promises (IOUs) and this chain goes forward in the future. This also means the future risk is present in this chain. How we turn this into action that allow us to manage the transition risks to this better world of tomorrow? It maybe comes this way to gaze at the sky and wonder if we will be walking on other celestial soils.
1. Dropped out of my MBA to launch Furrow (www.joinfurrow.com), an online marketplace empowering farmers to sell direct to consumers
2. Constantly making decisions that put myself out there and feel challenging but ultimately lead to my personal growth - eg taking the decision to move to the US for my MBA, taking the decision to launch Furrow. Plus the countless other smaller decisions that require turning into discomfort
3. Building a more sustainable food system where anyone can buy direct from any farm. Have just started exploring how tokens could support this and how to onboard farmers who are typically late tech adopters
I've been in and out Crypto since 2011. Now full time in for a major blockchain engineering firm. Wrote a first book on crypto champions. Next one DAOs in the making.
1. Helping seed and spread free communities - https://markfrazier.academia.edu
2. Developing new ways to bootstrap projects — e.g. https://is.gd/startupsocieties and https://is.gd/NewHanseaticLeague – and advising innovative projects, including https://Zonamerica.com
3. Developing open source apps and Defi solutions to help neighbors lift land values in struggling areas
1. Living through Unix/Linux systems to anti-spam system to DNS to large scale utility systems and to crypto since last four years i have been bootstrapping most of the projects and learning the lessons as much i could
2. I had conceptualized and designed DNS system few years back that I see more relevant today with so much of Phishing attacks and likewise threats
3. With the advent of web3, i intend to bridge domains between web2 and web3 and turn that into a core crypto startup, probably from the valley
1. Type 1 diabetic, redhead with glasses- bullied a lot. Diabetes nearly killed me, taught me how short life was at 11 years old. Failed founder (so far), had some success. Want to help people and maximise life.
2. -Found my fiancée.
-Started a biz right before COVID hit, didn't work but managed to move to VC and helping out founders and smart/cool people.
3. Running a business where I feel I am helping people to learn, grow and maximise their potential.
Live abroad- pref in the mountains
Help my mum out more
Figure out where the F I belong.
1. What is your story?
I've been an idea architect/venture designer for some time now and churned out a few ideas I am pursuing at the moment. I had also been involved in stratups technology investing with great value coming up in the most positive direction.
2. What have you done that you are proud of?
Immense value from my investment activities and creating tech products at the prototype stage that will eventually transit to a saleable product.
3. What do you want to try to do before you die?
Take my product and company global and going public with it.
Long story short for this place is that quite some years ago I started to sense the world is going bonkers and there weren't much to be done about it. Permaculture and regenerative practices were and are somewhat known and the concept of 'circular economy' was emerging. There were very little discussion on how we can move from the current system to a regenerative one. As in not how it would actually look like, what needs to be done to get there from what we have now here and what is the scale and pace needed to happen.
Once I had a vision of some sort, I established a startup with a few other people. This was late in 2017 and we knew it was too early for "startup way of doing". But we did not feel like we have a need to get into investor funnel or anything like that. We knew that if it's "bunch of people" it's different from 'a fintech startup' in that to get somewhere and it's a more structured way of making progress.
Since then we've been in numerous hackathons and other events to test our ideas and get feedback. Wood supply-chains, problems on due diligencing on real-world projects for multilateral banks, built environment, agriculture and others. I think we have now a good enough grasp of the problems and potential set of solutions that can drive a real impact.
So, this is 'long story short' way of telling what I'm proud of: grit to think through a systemic change based on our current socio-economic systems. I do have experience from small to international projects in various roles and I've done foodstuff industry, payments, logistics and such even at national level. Maybe I've been helped with the fact I have not felt I need to "prove myself" or "us".
Originally I got this news letter through the wallet chat as Richard looked like a persistent guy in Telegram wallet group. I follow him also on Twitter, but The Algorithm rarely lift his posts on my feed and I rarely chase anyone in particular. We'll see how things turn out here and elsewhere.
As with @James Lamming, agriculture is one are where we are looking at also besides built environment. I am even writing an article about blockchain and agriculture to a local agriculture portal (https://parastapirkanmaalta.fi/) this week. It's not one's usual about food safety and what comes down to track & trace. It is more about 'general ledger' as in Schumpeter, communities and how to transform to sustainable foodchains of the future. (As an aside, I don't think blockchain is good for provenance, maybe colored my experience as a systems architect in Finnish Post back in the day.)
For the U.S. specifically drought is a seeping, huge problem and maybe urban farming are some points of interest. At large supply-chain financing is one framing here. But not the ways in which one can find it being done using that as a search word. Coase theory, positive sum transactions and others like that besides Schumpeter and general ledger may be food for search engine fodder here.
Before I die I of course want to see we are resilient again. My kids, other kids, other beings having a well enough life and options to choose from. So, by 'we' I don't mean just my reference group of people or just humans but an utopian future of harmony. I find it's a worthy thing to try and maybe, general ledger, taking Coase Theory, or arrow of time and thermodynamic theories and translating that to more blockchainey speak of "minimal number of transactions and information" maybe we can use this as common, known vocabulary and the parallel risk capital architecture that has emerged to change how credit risk scoring on capital markets works, to transform accounting without chaning all the laws and regulations and incorporate externalities to accounting and so to GDP.
Or coming closer, or straying, how can we incorporate externalities into money too. One way of seeing this is also that money is chained promises (IOUs) and this chain goes forward in the future. This also means the future risk is present in this chain. How we turn this into action that allow us to manage the transition risks to this better world of tomorrow? It maybe comes this way to gaze at the sky and wonder if we will be walking on other celestial soils.
1. father of 3, laywer, nft artist. in brisbane, born in london
2. other than family, creating and selling art, starting railsgirls brisbane some years ago with friends
3. have my art exhibited
1. Dropped out of my MBA to launch Furrow (www.joinfurrow.com), an online marketplace empowering farmers to sell direct to consumers
2. Constantly making decisions that put myself out there and feel challenging but ultimately lead to my personal growth - eg taking the decision to move to the US for my MBA, taking the decision to launch Furrow. Plus the countless other smaller decisions that require turning into discomfort
3. Building a more sustainable food system where anyone can buy direct from any farm. Have just started exploring how tokens could support this and how to onboard farmers who are typically late tech adopters
I've been in and out Crypto since 2011. Now full time in for a major blockchain engineering firm. Wrote a first book on crypto champions. Next one DAOs in the making.