Olaf Carlson-Wee

10 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Olaf Carlson-Wee · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Carlson-Wee: Future web value will accrue to protocol users, not VCs
“So all of the wealth that's been generated by venture capitalists and entrepreneurs of centralized companies, I think will get pushback to everyday investors who have access to all of these things, and that all the value that accrues will go to the early adopt…”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:17 a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Carlson-Wee: Some crypto projects will fail because they are impossible
“We're actually creating things that previously did not exist, and some of the things will fail because they are literally impossible. So these are hard technology challenges where you're actually sometimes making a bet on something that it could turn out is no…”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:19 a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Carlson-Wee: Buying Filecoin tokens is the only direct exposure to the protocol
“So if you want to invest in the Filecoin protocol, the only way to invest in that is to buy Filecoins. There's no company you can really back, per se, to get exposure directly to that protocol.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:59 a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Carlson-Wee: P2P protocols will eventually compete with Web 2.0 giants like Uber and Twitter
“Many of the major Web two point O companies that have seen a substantial growth in the last 15 years, this is Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, eBay, Uber, every single one of these companies could someday see competition from a peer peer-to-peer protocol.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:46 a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carlson-Wee: Almost no live crypto protocol has formal governance
“And right now, in pretty much every live system, there isn't a clear governance model. There's no formalization around how decisions are made or executed.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:20 a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Opinion
Carlson-Wee: ICOs are the most efficient capital coordination mechanism in history
“With ICOs, I think that it's probably the fastest and most efficient capital coordination we've ever seen in capitalism, like, since money was invented.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:31 a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Carlson-Wee: Blockchain protocols are decentralized tools for human organization
“Ultimately a blockchain protocol is just a way to organize humans very, very precisely without a central hierarchy telling people what to do.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:07 a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
May 8, 2019 negative
Insight
Carlson-Wee: Daily active users is the wrong metric for financial crypto products
“People are talking about daily active users, but of like financial products. It's just odd thing. So like, are you a daily active user of your mortgage, right? It's like the wrong framework. It's just the wrong question, right?”
Olaf Carlson-Wee May 8, 2019 ▶ 20:18 Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
May 8, 2019 positive
Insight
Carlson-Wee: Decentralization is an architecture for permissionless building, not an ideology
“Decentralization is not an ideological thing. It's an architecture to support that permissionless building.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee May 8, 2019 ▶ 25:27 Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
May 8, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Carlson-Wee predicts DAOs will use internet money for financial contracts
“If we do have these sort of decentralized, autonomous corporations or something, they're going to be using the internet money in order to communicate among each other and create financial contracts and things like that.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee May 8, 2019 ▶ 27:49 Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
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