jacobclaerhout

I want my "hot dog, not a hot dog" classifier, to be encrypted.

Having an on-chain professional profile that is part of your (web3) identity does make sense to me. People are already willing to share their Linkedin profile with the world, why not replicate that in a system that is user-owner vs. Microsoft owned.

Agree with some of the points here. In my mind some of the company-sided dynamics he sketches can serve as a way to do better talent discovery (instead of full hiring). Obviously for a real job, versus a gig, you want to have assess someone as a person and not just as a nested list.

Linkedin is a walled garden. They make it really hard to use "their data" - the professional profiles of their users - outside their ecosystem, which makes sense as their business model optimises to sell Linkedin Recruiter Licences.

The fact that professional identities live in a closed ecosystem prevents real innovation to happen on top of the network.

We only know janhenr, who's an avid PH reader, personally

It is indeed a lot like synthetic stocks, but for private companies. This brings quite some complexities along in terms as how to value the companies even if just relative to each other. To help solve that we're partnering with startup data providers and are building scoring algorithms.

If you have enough money and access to deals, it is undoutably better to invest in real equity. However, through our game we aim to empower people that don't meet that description to learn, have fun and become micro-backers of companies they believe in.

We are building a game where people instead of keeping an excel file with the startups they believe in and would have backed should they have the capital/access, can keep a digital portfolio. Just like in Fantasy Football, you'll be able to get real returns (albeit a lot smaller than real equity investing).