Web3 in suits
Several years after Web3 broke out, there’s a noticeable dearth of patagonia vests still hanging around the crypto scene. Where are the Web3 unicorns? Does blockchain have a space in the enterprise? Do consumers care?
Underneath this question is a philosophical discussion on disintermediation, decentralization, and what it means for a technology to be successful on the internet.
Start exercising those brain wrinkles with a different parallel - is open source a success? Building a commercial enterprise on providing open source software is famously hard. Despite that the internet runs on software that thousands of nerds maintain, for little or no commercial purpose. Maybe this whole time the internet was all about the love ❤️