Web3 with Sam Kamani

21: Using Web3 to improve funding for students with guest speakers Ben Kanus & Theo Zipoy


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Just in the US alone there are 43 million students who have taken out student loans totalling over US$1.6 Tillion.

Sch0lar.io is building a solution to solve this enormous problem.

My guests today are Ben Knaus the Chief Growth Officer and Theodore Zipoy the Chief Information Officer of Sch0lar.

Ben's background is M&A.  He's an early adopter and investor in projects like BTC, ETH, DOT, and ADA. He is a contributor for Forbes magazine as well as hackernoon where he's been nominated for Bitcoin writer of the year. He's a part of the founding team at Sch0lar. Where he's focused on Blockchain and web3 solving real world problems.

Ted leads business and product development at Sch0lar.io- Prior to his time at Sch0lar, Ted built an extensive background in the medical device industry including leading an internal innovation management team dedicated to scaling innovation and entrepreneurship within a leading medical device company. His team actively evangelized and scaled innovation through Design Thinking, design sprint execution, innovation strategy and planning, and innovation culture enablement.

In this wide ranging discussion, we talk about

  • How to enable new modes of funding for students
  • Why build in Web3 and not Web2.
  • How do you choose a blockchain to build your project
  • How to overcome limitations of a DAO
  • According to Ben and Ted What other Web3 projects have potential
  • Please feel free to contact Ben and Theodore here

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodore-zipoy/

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-knaus-b81180134/

    https://www.sch0lar.io/

    https://twitter.com/Sch0larIO

    https://discord.gg/VWyPakt85G

    https://www.linkedin.com/company/sch0lar

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