INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Decentralization is the buzzword du jour
And Bill Ottman wants to add our social media to the mix.Ottman, an intense young man with a passion to fix the world, is the founder of
Minds.com, a New York-based startup that has been receiving waves of new users as zealots and the the not-so-zealous have been leaving other
He and his CTO, Mark Harding, have worked in various non-profits including Code To Inspire, a group that teaches Afghani women to code
on Facebook and other big tech services
The team now has over 1 million registered users and over 105,000 monthly active users
to have a piece of content float higher in the feed.The company raised $350K in 2013 and then a little over a million dollars in a Reg CF
Equity Crowdfunding raise.Unlike Facebook, Minds is built on almost radical transparency
The code is entirely open source and it includes encrypted messenger services and optional anonymity for users
The goal, ultimately, is to have the data be decentralized and any user should be able to remove his or her data
Instead, those users just flocked to other, more permissive sites
and rewarding people for their contributions
Additionally, we want to provide our users with revenue opportunity and the ability to truly expand their reach and earn rewards for their
