Stark: Crypto in 2018 is at the internet's 1995 Netscape stage
Elizabeth Stark · An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture · Jul 15, 2018 · at 28:30
Elizabeth Stark, co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, contextualizes cryptocurrency adoption relative to early internet history during an a16z panel on crypto infrastructure.
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“So I think we're in the mid nineties when it comes to say internet time, right? So 1995 was a year that Netscape IPO'd and the year that was seen as say the web going mainstream.”
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