Religion is an ideal unowned intellectual property for tech businesses
Shaan Puri · MFM #165: How Jack Butcher is Selling his Art for $76m & How to Research Wealthy People · Mar 31, 2021 · at 19:49
Shaan Puri compares classic games like chess to religion as powerful, unowned intellectual property domains that startups can monetize.
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“And this is one of the reasons why we talked about religion as a really interesting fun you know, fundamental or like base layer for any business because nobody owns religion, but it's a highly recognized brand with super high affinity. So I love businesses that are, you know, like Pray the app that's, you know, basically calm for Christianity, or there's versions of this for the Muslim religion. And so I love religion as one of the primary substrates, because you have a billion people who know about it, but nobody owns the IP, so you can use the IP.”
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