Olaf Carlson-Wee
also referred to as: olaf carlson wee
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2017 by Olaf Carlson Wee · said 14 times in 4 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2017 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- 20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
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Dec 11, 2017
Carlson-Wee: Companies launching tokens must stop extracting direct network revenue
“The second thing is that if you are launching a token and you're a private company, you should be ready to stop extracting any revenue from your network. So however you were extracting revenue from the network, whether this was advertising or paid subscription…”
Dec 11, 2017 neutral
Dec 11, 2017
Carlson-Wee: Companies without network effects should not issue tokens
“So I think that a good rule of thumb, though, is that these companies must have network effects, period. If your business is not based on building network effects, then it doesn't make sense for you to create a token. I think this rule is the one I see broken …”
Dec 11, 2017 neutral
Carlson-Wee: Polychain operates under a benevolent dictator investment model
“So internally, we do have a benevolent dictator, which is me. I do obviously seek help from our research team extensively, as well as other partners at the firm. I, in general, though, I have kind of full veto rights over any investment.”
Dec 11, 2017 bullish
Carlson-Wee: ICOs will irreversibly accelerate crypto software development
“So I do think that this is an inflection point for the entire ecosystem, and that this concept of a crowd sale or so-called ICO is really a case of the genie being out of the bottle, and it will irreversibly change the pace of software development in this ecos…”
Dec 11, 2017 neutral
Dec 11, 2017
Carlson-Wee: Non-experts should ignore crypto white papers
“I don't think people should evaluate white papers unless they consider themselves subject matter experts. This is very different from understanding a business, and if you don't understand, like, consensus mechanisms, the underlying cryptography used here, and …”
Dec 11, 2017 bullish