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Your Startup story......?
I am currently a founder of a VC-backed startup and only recently joined Product Hunt. I joined to accomplish 3 things
1) Get closer to the new products coming to market
2) Open up the avenue of potentially launching a product on PH
3) Connect with like minded product enthusiasts through hearing thier stories
I noticed quickly that one of the parts is missing in some of these forums..... the STORY!
I would love to hear some of your backgrounds of how you all landed in the startup/entrepreneur space and hear your stories on what made you all so passionate about devoting yourself to a product.
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I will go first:
I was working at Microsoft before jumping into this new venture. To be honest, I was actually loving mytime in big tech, great benefits, smart people and a passionate environemnt. However, I didn't feel challenged.
During the same time, I started investing in crypto as I had some spare capital laying around and fell 10 feet deep into the rabbithole. What I noticed quickly was the lack of actual product and more just hard marketing that was happening in the Web3 space. With a background in tech transformation and sales, I decided to join a group of my friends in starting a Web3 startup. We are now focused on building the best and most simple onboarding experience for people who wnat to get into the Web3 space.
Why am I focusing on this area? I believe that everyone should have access to this ground breaking technology. It changed my life and opened up the doors to so many experiences and opportunities and I think it could do the same for many others.
Long one... but would love to hear others tell their stories :)
Hello. Thanks for asking.
- I am a social entrepreneur and innovator
- My interests and professional pursuits have focused on improving conditions for trust in order to accelerate the volume, velocity, and value of transactions in order to help people and organizations prosper.
- In 1991, I developed the world's first do-what-mean time and information manager, a natural language expert system for personal information management that allowed users to enter notes in a digital scratch pad and have automatically interpreted for their intended purpose and categorized for subsequent action, which was recognized by BYTE Magazine at the time.
- I sold it successfully online on CompuServe before the WWW. That's when I realized the unprecedented power of the Internet for improving conditions for trust.
- Those experiences and insights set me on a lifelong career focused on optimizing conditions for trust that ranged from cryptography to supply chain management to corporate governance.
- My published research revealed that firm performance was correlated with conditions of trust created by corporate governance practices, which ultimately led to proposing a Humanistic Corporate Governance framework that empowers organizational stakeholders with a voice around the boardroom table in order to ensure that organizations (legal persons) serve the interests of natural persons.
- This, combined with my work at PRESTO (Ontario's public transit fare payment system), intended to incentivize Ontario citizens to adopt a healthier lifestyle and the advent of blockchain technologies, I realized that we could use this technology help people be trusted by strangers and thereby gain easier access to global opportunities.
- That was the stimulus for developing ReliablyME, a blockchain-enabled social credit system that recognizes people for their authentic self and social worth.
@alex_todd We definitely need to collaborate at some point Alex, the product you are working on sounds really interesting. Look forward to seeing and hearing about your success :)
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