In this episode Pooja Shah, founder and CEO at Tephra Labs, talks about how decentralized human networks can address large-scale problems.
Governments and corporations have failed to move the needle against many of humanity’s most important challenges and opportunities. Pooja believes that decentralized human networks have the right meta-coordinating structures to do so. These networks can captivate participants from everywhere and grow exponentially, and furthermore, don’t rely on a centralized direction-setting as governments and corporations do.
We dive deep into the primitive form of human coordination all the way to the present on the internet and what the expectations are for the future.
Additionally we converse about why hyper-scale decentralized networks will grow by engaging people as independent workers, rather than employees, about Tephra Labs and it’s first product Radius - a decentralized network that connects independent workers and teams to the best projects in web3 - and how Pooja is thinking about coordinating capital, talent and ideas together in Radius’ protocol.
If you're interested in joining Tephra Labs or Radius, check out their open roles at https://tephra.com/careers.
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Topics:
Welcome Pooja Shah to The Rhys Show!: (00:00:00)
Goal for listeners: (00:02:18)
Where did Pooja’s curiosity for human coordination come from: (00:02:38)
Core primitives of how we humans coordinate to do the things we do: (00:05:41)
Pre web3: How people coordinate in the internet & what does internet enable us to do: (00:10:53)
Web3: What is Pooja doing with Radius and Tephra Labs?: (00:16:43)
Different levels of coordination scaling from 1 to a million: (00:24:39)
Pooja’s thoughts on an independent work economy: (00:29:58)
About Radius & Radius vs. other work platforms: (00:32:54)
Other platforms at team level instead of personal level: (00:38:29)
Future: Building a protocol for Radius in terms of ideas, capital and talent: (00:41:57)
Underrated & overrated questions about job boards, reputation and the “meme” of human coordination: (00:48:46)
Wrap-up: (00:52:12)
Mentioned resources:
“Flash Teams” Talk by Melissa Valentine & Michael Bernstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUqrQxs8SCE
Connect with Pooja Shah:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pooja_eth
Radius: https://www.radius.space/about
Tephra Labs: https://www.tephra.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pooja01