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#Ep. 57: How an early YouTube employee is competing against Uber and Airbnb!

Category: Technology
Duration: 00:37:42
Publish Date: 2019-11-18 01:00:00
Description:

Ahmed is in San Francisco for his first ever visit! As well as attending the San Francisco Blockchain Week, Ahmed set some time to explore a bit of SF and also spent time interviewing one of the pioneers of blockchain technology in SF; Matthew Liu from Origin Protocol.

In this episode, the pair discuss:

  • Matt’s experience and key lessons as a product manager at Youtube in its early days
  • Matt’s ups and downs in entrepreneurship
  • What it takes to be a real entrepreneur
  • Why Origin is building a platform for decentralised marketplaces
  • How incentivisation functions in Origin
  • Real practical use cases
  • Differences in the business models between open sourcing your tech (tokens) vs keeping it private (equity)
  • Culture and personality around delivering impact

They also discuss the race to digital supremacy between the U.S. and China!

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Special Guest: Matthew Liu.

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