Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Variant Fund
Ownership economy. Users should own a stake in the networks they contribute to.
Show how your protocol distributes ownership to users and creators.
User ownership, creator empowerment, protocols rewarding participation
Extractive platforms disguised as web3, ownership theater
Three-phase approach to building crypto: product-market fit, community cultivation, sufficient decentralization.
Users who contribute value to networks should own a stake in those networks
“In the ownership economy, users are owners and owners are users.”
— Variant blog
“Progressive decentralization is the path to legitimacy.”
— a16z blog
“In the ownership economy, every user is a stakeholder. That changes everything about how products are built and distributed.”
— Blog
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