74: Building Largest Web3 Network w/ Adam Jackson - Co-Founder of Braintrust

Adam Jackson is the co-founder of Braintrust - the largest decentralized talent marketplace. Braintrust’s mission is to build the world’s most impactful talent network — one that is user-owned, aligns incentives, and redistributes value to Talent and Organizations. Previously, Adam founded 4 VC-backed companies, sold 2 of them, and is an angel investor in 100+ companies.  

We talk about Web2 vs Web3 marketplaces, building a successful governance model, mechanics of DAO, freelance economy, message for Web3 critics, and much more.

SPONSORS 

BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital 

Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio/

CONNECT 

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga 

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots  

GUEST LINKS 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjacksonsf 

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

Website: http://www.usebraintrust.com/ 

Portfolio: https://angel.co/p/adamjackson  

OUTLINE 

(0:00) Built 4 companies, sold 2 of them 

(1:31) Solving the Chicken & Egg problem of Marketplaces 

(4:07) "Dirty little secret" of Web2 Marketplaces 

(7:43) Venture Capital as a forcing function that leads to fee extraction 

(9:33) First encounter with Blockchain 

(10:49) BTRST as a Governance Token 

(12:52) Is Braintrust a DAO? 

(14:16) What happens when DAO members don't execute a proposal 

(16:49) What's working, what's not working 

(19:55) Role of a DAO Founder  

(21:18) Value of a Token 

(22:51) What happens when VCs hold a lot of tokens 

(23:54) Growing from 0 to 700,000 members during the pandemic  

(25:32) Convincing Nike, Goldman Sachs & other Web2 co's to get onboard 

(28:12) Hiring remotely & globally 

(30:07) How the freelance economy is helping corporate America 

(33:07) Vetting new Talent 

(35:05) Coordinating 100+ developers to build DAO 

(41:19) How many tokens does Adam own? 

(42:00) Crypto Twitter 

(46:24) Are you buying the dip? 

(46:49) Message for Web3 Critics

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2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)  

Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.