224: Power to the People II | Tatiana Botskina, Mintycode and Fixing Open Source

Tatiana Botskina is the founder and CEO of Mintycode, a decentralized IP marketplace for software creators, bringing together software creators, software buyers, and software contributors. By building communities around software creators’ source code and enabling shared ownership, Mintycode helps software creators monetize their work and incentivize and reward contributors. Mintycode is also one of the 12 startups forming the Techstars Web3 accelerator class of 2023. 

Before founding Mintycode in January 2022, Tatiana began her career as a lawyer before returning to academia and adding disciplines in international finance, machine learning, and blockchain development, Through her time in academia and also through working with startups, Tatiana developed strong beliefs in digital transformation powered by artificial intelligence and global decentralization.

In this episode, Tatiana and Pete Townsend dive into her background that inspired her passion for fairness and justice, her approach to developing Mintycode’s competitive edge, and the natively collaborative context of Mintycode as a platform and a community.  Tatiana and Pete also talk through some of the challenges she’s faced so far as a founder/CEO, and also her love for hackathons.

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Episode title inspired by ‘Power to the People’ by Public Enemy

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