Every day we create data, but almost none of us know who really owns it.

In this episode of Couchonomics with Arjun, André Vellozo, Founder and CEO of DrumWave, joins the show to explore one of the biggest questions facing the digital economy: what if people could own their data the same way they own money?

André explains why privacy is only the beginning of the conversation, why AI is accelerating the need for data ownership, and why he believes the world needs entirely new infrastructure that allows people, businesses, and governments to exchange data securely while creating value for everyone involved.

🎙️ In this episode:
• Why owning your data is different from protecting your privacy
• The idea behind data wallets and how they could work
• Why AI is changing the value of personal data
• How people could eventually earn from the data they create every day
• Why governments, banks and technology companies are all competing around digital identity
• Brazil's national experiment with data wallets
• Whether data could become a new asset class
• What it will take to build a global data economy

⏱️ CHAPTERS
01:51 What DrumWave is building
09:01 Why data behaves more like money than information
17:12 How data wallets could work
24:00 Turning everyday data into an asset
31:49 Who should issue data wallets?
38:24 Can people really earn from their data?
43:19 Building the infrastructure for a data economy
50:22 Why governments are paying attention to data ownership

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