S3 Ep. 14 Adam Jackson – Developing and Investing in Web3 Networks: Double Clicking on Braintrust

Podcast notes

Adam Jackson founded Braintrust — the world’s first user-controlled talent platform — which aligns incentives, removes expensive middlemen and gives value and control back to talent and organizations. Prior to founding Braintrust, Adam co-founded Doctor on Demand, the popular video telemedicine provider, with daytime talk show personality Dr. Phil.

Other notable ventures include DriverSide, a marketplace that connects car owners with mechanics, which was acquired by Advance Auto Parts in September of 2011 and MarketSquare, the first online local shopping destination on the Internet which was acquired by Intuit in September of 2006. Adam is a passionate Angel investor in 100+ companies including LTSE, SuperHuman, Filecoin, Binance, BlockFi, Automatic, Apero Health, Zenefits, and more.

A full transcript of the episode can be found on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/adam-jackson/

Key highlights

We discussed:

> How the Braintrust model and its nodes work

> Rewarding commercial nodes

> The role of the non-profit foundation and association in the system

> Maintaining the coherence of Braintrust

> Investing in user-owned networks

> Current experimentations in the token economy space

> The societal impact of having a decentralized talent network

To find out more about Adam’s work:

> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajackson/

> Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjacksonsf

> Website: https://www.usebraintrust.com/

> Braintrust’s Discord Community: https://discord.gg/rgUS9aHFCB

Other references and mentions:

> Showing the way with Web3 Marketplaces: Braintrust — with Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/braintrust/

> Braintrust: Fighting Capitalism with Capitalism, Not Boring with Packy McCormick https://www.notboring.co/p/braintrust-fighting-capitalism-with?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

> Deep dive on the Fee Converter https://medium.com/snowfork/introducing-the-braintrust-fee-converter-21be7c8af951

> Braintrust Academy: https://academy.usebraintrust.com/

> Kunai commercial node: https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog/new-node-addition-kunai

> Braintrust Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/address/0x799ebfabe77a6e34311eeee9825190b9ece32824

> Vitalik on quadratic voting: https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/12/07/quadratic.html

> Gitcoin: https://gitcoin.co/ 

> 100m $ investment round: https://www.usebraintrust.com/blog/-100m-btrst-purchase

> Dimo: https://dimo.zone

Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/

Thanks for the ad-hoc music to Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://boundaryless.io/podcast-music

Recorded on 23 March 2022.