The advent of the blockchain, for instance, has led to a paradigm shift - known as Web3. This paradigm shift is seeing a move away from the closed protocol that has dominated software development over the past 20 years — where the Twitter's, Facebook's, and Google's of the world own their user data and collect the lion's share of the economic value — and moving to a world of open sourced development where creators and communities share the economics and users own their data.
Already terms like DeFi (Decentralized Finance), DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), and NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are entering the common vernacular, even if many of us still don't quite understand them. At their best, innovations like this are allowing people to work collaboratively in ways that allow communities to form, share ownership, establish good governance, and operate transparently. But already there are those who worry that the potential of web3 is being co-opted by big business.
Enter today's guest, Michael Lewkowitz, Co-Founder and General Partner at Possibilian Ventures; a pre-seed / seed investor in companies building a better future across the transition and cooperation economies. What makes Possibilian particularly interesting is that it is focused on supporting founders who are leveraging these converging technological breakthroughs to unlock true systems change to address the two biggest existential threats we face: climate change and inequality.
During the episode, Michael and I discuss Possibilian's unique thesis, five areas of transition we're currently experiencing, the definition of terms like Web3, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs, why Web3 could massively disrupt the status quo, and examples of investments Possibilian is making in companies leveraging these technologies for systemic change. And be sure to stay tuned to the very end where Michael shares his outlook for what possibilities these new technologies could enable over the next decade.
Resources from this episode:
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47 - Transforming our unsustainable and inhumane food systems
46 - Why assets managers should be managing the risk of Gender-Based Violence
44 - The Rhodes scholar who is democratizing access to impact investments in Africa
43 - Putting humanity back into Economics
42 - Leveraging technology and a human-centred focus to better manage crises response
41 - Transforming idle church properties into thriving communities of sustainable impact
40 - The charity that gave birth to a $300M global impact asset manager
39 - Exploring new possibilities by blending philanthropy and impact investing
38 - Accelerating investment into diverse emerging fund managers
37 - Accelerating the flow of impact capital
36 - Opportunities for impact in the mining industry
35 - Understanding the impact revolution with the father of impact investing
34 - Addressing the housing affordability crisis with impact investing
33 - Challenging the Nobel-prize winning theory that stands in the way of impact investing
32 - Art activism as a force for impact with Benjamin Von Wong
31 - Impact investing through the eyes of an institutional money manager
30 - A deep dive into gender lens investing with a true OG of the movement
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