, which aims to examine, challenge and demystify the ideas behind the emerging industry by speaking to the people who live and breathe it.I’ve spent most of my career in financial services - I joined Anderson Consulting in the 90s really focusing on retail and financial services, everything from cards to banking and some of the first internet banking and e-commerce services. I then left in 2005 and went to UBS, focusing on capital markets.
I did not. It’s funny, I got so wrapped up in the value of the underlying technology, I kind of forgot to invest in that part of it. Industry by industry, there are unique dimensions.
If we look at non-fungible tokens versus fungible tokens, there’s this unhelpful focus on what is too frequently a get-rich-quick scheme, all these NFTs with artificial scarcity. If a company only creates ten NFTs of a product because they want a big marketing splash and a wild valuation for them, to me, that’s not nearly as interesting as getting your brand to show up everywhere.