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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…”
Ian Lee: Solo Capitalists Struggle to Support Portfolios Compared to Traditional VCs
“The angel investing model and the solo capitalist model doesn't do a great job of supporting portfolio companies, right? So in order to compete with traditional venture firms that have a lot more resources, And areas of support and areas of like business devel…”
Ian Lee: Incumbents Fail by Dismissing Tech That Disguises Business Model Shifts
“And my main takeaway from that book and all of my work over the last two decades is that it's because incumbents Fail to realize that a technological innovation often comes with a business model innovation behind it, and they get, they dismiss the technologica…”
Ian Lee: DAOs With Explicit Mandates Are Vastly More Successful
“Purposeful DAOs, where they have explicit mandates and very specific ones. Tend to do much better. So if you have, like, a DAO that's just kind of very generic and doesn't really have a clear purpose, those ones have a much harder time sustaining themselves, w…”
Ian Lee: Early Web3 Startups Failed Due to Missing Infrastructure, Not Storytelling
“Cello is, is one that I have high hopes for, but there have been, you know, hundreds of startups that unfortunately were going after really important missions, and were actually telling very good narratives about how they were going to, for example, bank the u…”