Ian Lee: Kyle Samani and Chris Dixon Popularized 'Web3' Around 2017
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Ian Lee, co-founder of Syndicate, traces the early historical origins and key proponents of the Web3 paradigm shift.
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“The people who originally talked about Web Three were people like Kyle Simani of Multicoin and also Chris Dixon at A-sixteen Z, probably around like, 2017, 20 18, and that was, I mean, that was way ahead of its time, but for people that were kind of following them and also in it working on, on the technologies at the ground level, we did started to, we did start to see this”
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