Gilliam: The world will shift from 250 nations to 250 million digital nations
Jim Gilliam · a16z Podcast | The Internet Is Your Movement · Jan 2, 2019 · at 18:04
Jim Gilliam, CEO of political software platform NationBuilder, discusses how digital technology enables borderless self-governing communities with Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz.
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“Part of the reason our company's called NationBuilder is the idea that there won't just be 250 nations in the world anymore. There'll be two hundred and fifty million of them.”
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