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The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:56 Ben Gilbert Our guest today is Brendan Eich, CEO of the Brave Browser, an application right at the heart of the rapidly emerging Web three world.
- ▶ 1:05 Ben Gilbert It is arguably the single largest blockchain based app with over
- ▶ 5:45 David Rosenthal And of course, we are talking on Brave right now.
- ▶ 5:51 Ben Gilbert Well, we're gonna go back and tell some of the story of what led to Brave, but I wanted to get it in your words first.
- ▶ 5:58 Ben Gilbert What is the Brave browser?
- ▶ 6:00 Brendan Eich So Brave is a faster browser because it blocks all the trackers, many of which Google or its publishers or ad buyers depend on, and it's based on Chrome, the Chromium open source code.
- ▶ 6:27 Brendan Eich You should get off Chrome and you should use Brave.
- ▶ 7:58 Brendan Eich The problem that Brave solves is the tracking ads, the privacy invasion, because it has all sorts of bad effects I can get into.
- ▶ 8:31 Brendan Eich We block all that with Brave, but once you're in Brave, there's a whole new world of economics that's user centric.
- ▶ 8:37 Brendan Eich And this is the really big idea of Brave.
- ▶ 34:33 Ben Gilbert So I want to fast-forward all the way to the moment where you're starting to think about Brave, and
- ▶ 48:22 Brendan Eich I'm going to try this new Brave browser private ad system because there are some users there that are off the reservation.
- ▶ 48:30 Brendan Eich They used uBlock Origin on Chrome, and now they're using Brave, and I can't get to them through my usual, you know, media channels and advertising methods.
- ▶ 48:38 Brendan Eich I'm going to put a little money on Brave, and that's how we built up the private ad business as part of Brave Rewards uses the basic attention token.
- ▶ 1:00:38 Ben Gilbert You're rolling out a bunch more features in Brave, sort of at a compounding rate now that it's turning into much more than everything you've described so far, with its own search engine, with its own native wallet capability.
- ▶ 1:01:40 Brendan Eich We have the brave lion icon for shields.
- ▶ 1:06:13 Brendan Eich And having those lead users favor, you know, Firefox in its day or Brave Now is super important.
- ▶ 1:15:15 Brendan Eich I talked to somebody, an anonymous user of Brave in Africa who was a Hex fan, and they were wondering why we're, you know, why the Hex founder was feuding with us, because he's kind of a nut.
- ▶ 1:17:57 Brendan Eich And so in Brave, if you use webmail like Gmail, we block those trackers at the endpoint where the secure session, the TLS session terminates.
- ▶ 1:22:51 Brendan Eich I'm going to use Brave and block those, but it's hard to beat a server sometimes, and I agree with Moxie, right?
- ▶ 1:24:37 Brendan Eich There'll be servers you'll want to go to, but if you have these cryptographic protocols, if you have strong, muscular clients like Brave, if you have that market power as a small user through essentially unionizing with other users of that…
- ▶ 1:28:24 Ben Gilbert All right, well, I want to move on to our grading section here, and even though this isn't a sort of traditional acquired episode, or we've necessarily told the whole history and done our teardown analysis the way we typically do, Brendan,…
- ▶ 1:32:18 Brendan Eich And I think Brave, at four hundred million, we can actually make this real.
- ▶ 1:33:25 Brendan Eich Getting people to do direct on-chain sends is still challenging for the UX reasons we mentioned, the usability, the security, the sort of familiarity on the both the sender and the creator who receives it, but with Brave at four hundred…
- ▶ 1:38:16 Brendan Eich The worst case to me would be, you know, duck and brave start blooding each other in some mixed martial arts match to claim the privacy mantle prematurely.
- ▶ 1:41:24 Ben Gilbert Where can listeners find you on the internet and Brave on the internet?
- ▶ 1:42:04 Brendan Eich And on Twitter, the Brave handle is called at Brave.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:43:08 Ben Gilbert Like, it's, I think, that Brave and MetaMask are probably, like, the three largest, um, like, applications by user count in all of crypto right now.