Carlson-Wee: P2P protocols will eventually compete with Web 2.0 giants like Uber and Twitter
Olaf Carlson-Wee · a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies · Jan 2, 2019 · at 5:46
Olaf Carlson-Wee, CEO of Polychain Capital, explains how tokenized peer-to-peer protocols can disintermediate central Web 2.0 platforms during the 2017 a16z Summit.
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“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.”
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