Carlson-Wee: Future web value will accrue to protocol users, not VCs
Olaf Carlson-Wee · a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols · Jan 2, 2019 · at 31:17
Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain Capital, discusses how decentralized protocols will shift economic returns away from centralized platform owners and venture capitalists.
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“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 adopters and users of those platforms and protocols, instead of to the people that kind of own these web platforms.”
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