Jain: Ethereum enables code-based economic coordination and internet-native firms
Tushar Jain · Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20) · Nov 18, 2021 · at 12:14
Tushar Jain, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, explains what catalyzed his and Kyle Samani's conviction to enter crypto full-time after reading the Ethereum white paper in 2016.
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“What we saw was the ability to use code to create a new type of human economic coordination, like a new type of firm. And we thought, oh, this is what internet native businesses Will look like this is going to be the next big type of organization.”
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