Decentralization
topic on 5 shows · 12 statements across 10 episodes
American Optimist 
Capital Allocators 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
20VC
12 statements about Decentralization, every show
McEntush: The electric grid will undergo significant decentralization
“I think one of the big theses we have is that there's going to be a decentralization of the grid.”
Khanna: Supports Crypto as Part of a Principle of Individual Decentralization
“As a principle, I'm for decentralization. I mean, it's one of the reasons I've been largely supportive of cryptocurrency, even though they're, you know, I'm not an evangelist, but anything that puts more gives more agency, more power, more information in the h…”
Visser: Emerging markets will leapfrog via decentralization in two years
“Over the course of the next two years, I fully expect people to realize that decentralization will allow certain emerging markets to leapfrog. Because they will put it to work faster.”
Chamath: Key sectors must adopt decentralization to prevent censorship
“Entrepreneurs now can really think about decentralization Has as the key feature, like in many of these markets or these systems where we have these centralized authority, we have to move to a much more decentralized, democratized way of doing things, whether …”
Narula: Simple metrics for measuring decentralization can be easily gamed
“Simple mechanisms for trying to define it and trying to use it as a measure could pretty easily be gamed.”
Narula: Decentralization is a proxy for fairness, accountability, and openness
“I think decentralization is actually a proxy for other features that we might want to have. Things like fairness, accountability, standards, openness, lack of gatekeeping. Decentralization is what enables us to have all of these different things.”
Carlson-Wee: Decentralization is an architecture for permissionless building, not an ideology
“Decentralization is not an ideological thing. It's an architecture to support that permissionless building.”
Yahya: Crypto decentralization means removing human control, not geographic distribution
“When people talk about decentralization in the world of crypto, they mean decentralization of human control. Not decentralization of, ah, computing in a geographic sense. It's not decentralization in any other way that you may think. Like, the key thing about …”
Yahya: Decentralization is a means to security, not the primary goal
“Decentralization is a means to an end. It's a means to each of these four things. It provides you with security. If done correctly, it can provide you with scalability of the underlying World computer. And it can help I think, I mean, usability and governance …”
Dixon: The internet has reached peak centralization and will decentralize
“I think that that we're, I believe we're at sort of peak centralization, and we're going to see more and more interesting things happening, and there's sort of this kind of, you know, it's like a lot of things in life, like politics and, you know, fashion tren…”
Yahya: Decentralization makes usability and governance harder to build
“Decentralization is a means to an end. It's a means to each of these four things. It provides you with security. If done correctly, it can provide you with scalability of the underlying World computer. And it can help, ah, I think, I mean, usability and govern…”
Sideman: Two-sided markets derive high value from decentralization, unlike all businesses
“You know, I tend to think of two-sided markets as being prone to having great value in decentralization, and I'm lucky to be working within that space and can benefit from these amazing opportunities to allow others to participate in this ecosystem, but I'm no…”