Ian Lee is the co-founder of Web3 platform Syndicate and former Managing Partner of IDEO CoLab Ventures. He discusses why decentralized technologies represent the long-term evolution of venture investing.
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Ian Lee: Novel DAO Markets Will Surpass Legacy Entity Transformations
“Over the long run, when we're thinking about 10 to 20 year plus time spans, it's likely that the new to world markets are actually going to outsize the existing ones, and that's absolutely what we think Syndicate is going to do.”
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Ian Lee: Network-Participating Investors Will Win in Crypto Over 5-10 Years
“At a high level, if you project this out again, over five to 10 year plus timescale, the investors who are more participatory in these networks that can actively get involved natively with these technologies are going to be the ones that win.”
Insight
Ian Lee: Web3 Can Centralize Wealth Just as Effectively as Decentralizing It
“So in the same way, like, you know, taking social media as an example, I think web three has that same potential, and you're, and you we've been seeing that, right, for the last decade since it's been around, which is that web three, like any technology, has t…”
Prediction Held up
Ian Lee: NFT-Powered Spotify and YouTube Alternatives Will Emerge by 2024
“So good example of this is that I think that like NFT powered commerce in Web three, NFT powered digital media and various kind of social media platforms. That I knew or believed were gonna happen in 10 years or so, I think are now possible in the next two to …”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2032
Ian Lee: Web3 Will Create Trillion-Dollar Outcomes Within Ten Years
“We're, you know, we're gonna see potential, you know, hundred billion, trillion dollar outcomes in the next 10 years.”
Opinion
Ian Lee: Traditional VC Centralizes Wealth and Control in Web3 Networks
“The traditional venture capital model was actually centralizing wealth and control and ownership of these networks.”