Goldberg: Best consumer products will emerge from permissionless protocols
Gabby Goldberg · Predicting the Future of Web3 · Jun 17, 2022 · at 56:55
Gabby Goldberg, investor at TCG, discusses how open protocols and portable user data create zero switching costs in Web3.
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“These really low switching costs in web three and all of these open protocols end up resulting in a lot of pressure on companies to build products that just like point blank serve consumers better. I think like from a venture perspective too, like I think the best consumer products will come out of permissionless protocols for that reason.”
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