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#016 - Alpha Barry on Temple, Autonomous Cities, & The Death of The Nation State
Alpha Barry is the founder of Temple, which builds cities to make the world more prosperous and beautiful, as well as Monolith, which founds and funds companies building Africa’s industrial economy. We talk about his vision for Temple and Monolith, why we need new cities — and the opportunities and challenges of building them — and why Africa is the right place to build these ventures.
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(00:50) Alpha’s background
(04:59) What is Temple?
(08:45) Why Africa (and Nigeria in particular)?
(15:00) What's the right mix of private and public involvement to make this succeed?
(18:50) Picking what to own; first principles vs. leaning into expertise
(24:30) Temple's ideology & ethos
(29:24) Recent city-state case studies
(36:09) Pre-mortem: what could failure look like?
(40:38) What do you have to get right at the beginning?
(47:59) Balancing domestic & foreign talent
(54:16) His first crack at Temple
(58:10) Types of ventures he sees being built as a result of Temple
(01:04:07) 20th century governance & infrastructure vs. 21st century technologies
(01:10:57) Alpha's final question for listeners
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Temple: https://www.templecities.com/
Monolith: https://www.monolithlabs.org/
Alpha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaxbarry
Alpha’s personal site: https://alphabarry.xyz/
Spencer’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SP1NS1R
Spencer’s blog: https://spencerkier.substack.com/
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Alpha Barry is the founder of Temple, which builds cities to make the world more prosperous and beautiful, as well as Monolith, which founds and funds companies building Africa’s industrial economy. We talk about his vision for Temple and Monolith, why we need new cities — and the opportunities and challenges of building them — and why Africa is the right place to build these ventures.
—
(00:50) Alpha’s background
(04:59) What is Temple?
(08:45) Why Africa (and Nigeria in particular)?
(15:00) What's the right mix of private and public involvement to make this succeed?
(18:50) Picking what to own; first principles vs. leaning into expertise
(24:30) Temple's ideology & ethos
(29:24) Recent city-state case studies
(36:09) Pre-mortem: what could failure look like?
(40:38) What do you have to get right at the beginning?
(47:59) Balancing domestic & foreign talent
(54:16) His first crack at Temple
(58:10) Types of ventures he sees being built as a result of Temple
(01:04:07) 20th century governance & infrastructure vs. 21st century technologies
(01:10:57) Alpha's final question for listeners
—
Temple: https://www.templecities.com/
Monolith: https://www.monolithlabs.org/
Alpha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaxbarry
Alpha’s personal site: https://alphabarry.xyz/
Spencer’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SP1NS1R
Spencer’s blog: https://spencerkier.substack.com/
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