INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Now that your cousin doesn''t ask you questions about bitcoin anymore, is it the end of all things blockchain Maybe it just means that it
time to think about innovating at the protocol level and come up with new use cases
That why I&m excited to announce that Outlier Ventures CEO and founder Jamie Burke will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin.
Burke bet on
the blockchain industry quite early as he set up Outlier Ventures back in 2013
The firm investment strategy is much more interesting than your average investment thesis.
According to Burke, blockchain is key when it
comes to decentralization
At some point, the web and the internet became too centralized
Most people now spend their time on social networks and other walled gardens.
This isn''t the first centralization wave
Web portals and AOL navigator have more or less disappeared
But the same thing seems to be happening with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms — they can''t moderate everything even though
they algorithmically promote the wrong things.
And it all comes down to trust
Tech CEOs have attracted so much power that they can control your mood or your opinion by tweaking a couple of settings
By building deep tech projects on top of some sort of blockchain, those projects become decentralized
A small group of tech CEOs can''t decide for everyone.
And this applies to IoT, AI and robotics startups
These startups will need a strong set of moral rules
And the best way to build this language is by building a decentralized infrastructure layer.
If you think those are fascinating questions
that we should talk about today (and not in ten years), then you should come to Disrupt Berlin to listen to Jamie Burke .
Buy your ticket
to Disrupt Berlin to listen to this discussion and many others
The conference will take place on November 29-30.
In addition to fireside chats and panels, like this one, new startups will participate in
the Startup Battlefield Europe to win the highly coveted Battlefield cup.
Jamie Burke
CEO and Founder, Outlier Ventures
Jamie is CEO of
Outlier Ventures, Europe's first blockchain venture capital firm, set up in 2013
Since then he has pioneered the convergence thesis that views blockchain as foundational to Deep Tech like AI, AR / VR, IoT and 3D printing
scaling securely and eventually converging
As a global thought leader, he assists startups and corporations on the space with an emphasis on AI, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities Mobility.
