Maqubela: Peer-to-peer collaborative models will dominate centralized business structures
Kanyi Maqubela · 20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade! · Dec 7, 2015 · at 8:52
Kanyi Maqubela, partner at Collaborative Fund, explains the underlying macro thesis behind Collaborative Fund's investment strategy.
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“The hub and spoke model of creating value and the centralizing of resources and the centralizing of distribution and the centralizing of production is an anachronistic model that was dying in the Network-driven model with nodes, and collaboration, and peer-to-peer, and liquidity directly between microparties, be those smaller firms or individuals, is the mode that's going to come and dominate”
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