Bruce Pon

Co-Founder, Ocean Protocol Foundation · 1 appearance on the record.

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Bruce Pon is the founder of BigchainDB, an enterprise blockchain database, and co-founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange for AI. He also co-founded digital rights platform ascribe and helped establish the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance.

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Insight
Pon: Per-Transaction Crypto Pricing Models Are Unhealthy Rent Extraction
“We looked at per transaction, but that starts extracting kind of rent in a non-healthy way. So yes, we grow with the network and it's easier for small companies to join up. But if you're talking like millions and millions, yeah, millions and billions of transa…”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 7:27 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
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Pon: Back-Office Reconciliation Consumes One-Third of Corporate Workforces
“So if you look at any single organization, whether it's a bank, a supply chain company, energy or automotive, one third of the work is on back office reconciliation, figuring out what happened. After the fact. One third of all people.”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 8:51 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
Opinion
Pon: Shared Blockchain Ledgers Make Back-Office Reconciliation Obsolete
“BigchainDB unlocks this potential where across multiple organizations you can have a single source of truth. In other words, You don't need reconciliation anymore because the truth and the provenance of the data is perfect.”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 9:04 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
Insight
Pon: Early Blockchains Overlooked Data Storage in Favor of Payments and Logic
“If you look at something like Bitcoin, it's payments, cryptocurrency in a global network. If you look at Ethereum, it's like business logic in a global network, and it's kicked off all these ICOs and stuff like that. You know, you have business logic in a bloc…”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 2:53 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
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Pon: Bitcoin Blockchain Could Not Scale For Data Storage in 2014
“When you deal with data, one of the problems that we encountered by doing a use case on top of the Bitcoin blockchain about three years ago was that it didn't scale. We weren't able to store the types of data that we wanted to. We weren't able to query it and …”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 3:41 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
Disclosure
BigchainDB Raised Up To $7 Million By September 2017
“We've raised around six million US dollars, six, seven million.”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 6:25 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
Disclosure
Pon: BigchainDB charges enterprise customers five to six figures
“About five to six figures.”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 8:26 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
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BigchainDB Targets $100K in Monthly Recurring Revenue by End of 2017
“We're targeting for a 100,000 monthly recurring revenue by the end of the year, that type of stuff, right?”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 12:54 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
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BigchainDB Generated Up To $60,000 Monthly Recurring Revenue in 2017
“We're in the 50 to 60 range.”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 13:02 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
Opinion
Pon: Vitalik Buterin Leads Ethereum With 'Preternatural Maturity'
“I really admire how Vitalik leads the community with such preternatural maturity. I mean, that, that, that blows me away.”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 17:28 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy

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782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy Sep 14, 2017 8m
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