Brad Burnham

Memory needs a rebel alliance Last week we wrote about the risks of centralizing our digital memory. Today's follow-up blog explores the ecosystem of startups building a different future where you control your own data and memory @usv @buildexante @zweinberg + matt hawes

Albert takes on climate, crypto, education, and the secret to a happy marriage in this podcast. thetwentyminutevc.com/albert-wenger/

@TrustVanta @craft_ventures @sequoia @ycombinator Watching a former colleague build a great business is one of life's great pleasures. Knowing they know financing is only a beginning and product led growth is best - also great. Congratulations Christina and the whole Vanta team

It's a big day at Vanta! We're proud to announce we’ve raised $110M in Series B funding led by @craft_ventures with participation from @sequoia and @ycombinator to continue our mission of securing the internet. Read about our plans for it here: hubs.ly/Q01d6JSM0

@cdixon Yes... now what kind of economy do we want

1/ Topic: Turning networks into economies 🧵

DeFi aspires to make financial services available to everyone. Zerion aspires to make it easy for us mere mortals docs.google.com/document/d/1oC…

Very excited to see the beginning of the end of GAFA's control of our data and our identities blog.ceramic.network/tag/news/

📣 Announcing: HackFS 💻 a 30 day virtual hackathon aimed at building the foundation of the decentralized web. Devs will build dapps, games, dev tools, DeFi tools, and other hacks that use decentralized storage. Hosted by @ETHGlobal and @ProtocolLabs. hackfs.com

I used to think that Web3 infrastructure would be decentralized compute, storage, and communication. Physical infrastructure will be needed but if we don't get identity and incentives right - it wont matter. Danny from 3Box lays out the identity challenge here...

We've put up DuckDuckGo billboards across the US, UK, SE, NL, BE, DK (with DE, FR & ES to come soon). If you spot a 🦆 in your community, we'd love to see it! Here's a map of all of our live locations (subject to change): duckduckgo.com/billboards

Duck Duck Go is an unusual company, run by an unusual entrepreneur. It may be just what we need in these unusual times thetwentyminutevc.com/gabrielweinber…

@mmasnick puts the case for protocols over platforms in a free speech frame knightcolumbia.org/content/protoc…

This is a really cool gig for a CTO from the open source world who wants to work with a leading crypto company cto.openzeppelin.org

Michael Sena of 3Box asks all the right questions of Facebook on Libra and Calibra medium.com/3box/3-questio…

Is there a seismic shift on the horizon in TV advertising - @Simulmedia thinks there is usv.com/blog/supportin…

Personalization is something you do for someone, targeting is something you do to someone - why doesn't the industry that spins for a living come up with a better word

I just backed Cider for Sea Turtles on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/proud…

Cloudflare has not only been quietly powering much of the Internet, it has been quietly building one of the strongest and deepest teams out there businessinsider.com/cloudflare-rai…

@thedanigrant on on the real reason distributed (decentralized) computing will win - integrity. usv.com/blog/the-distr… Echo's @cdixon medium.com/s/story/why-de… ... they are both right!

Will small protocols loosely joined be the more elegant, adaptive, and more easily governed architecture of a decentralized future?

Crypto may be the only free market solution to the market failure that is the FANG data monopolies economist.com/special-report…