Kevin Owocki on creating the most successful public goods platform for the Ethereum nation

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak to Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder of Gitcoin a project that helps crowdfund public goods and software developments on the Ethereum blockchain. With 300,000 developers and over 25,000 funders involved in the project the scaling has been plain to see. How was Gitcoin created and how did Kevin even enter this space in the first place?

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:29 Section 1, what is Gitcoin?
0:01:34 Kevin's pre crypto life and entering the space
0:04:44 Crypto, an avenue to open source development
0:07:21 The development of Gitcoin
0:09:29 Sponsor
0:09:58 Section 2, Gitcoin and ICO's
0:13:35 How Gitcoin works, and the big picture
0:17:08 Is Gitcoin grant focussed?
0:21:37 What's in it for donors?
0:23:44 Sponsor
0:24:33 Section 3 Incentivising
0:33:31 Delegates in Gitcoin, what do they do?
0:37:44 Sponsor
0:38:22 Are delegates a centralised model?
0:42:08 Non value governance tokens
0:45:31 Public goods taxation? Is it possible?
0:47:52 Sponsor
0:48:44 Section 4 Greenpilled: how crypto can regenerate the world
0:55:21 Mainstream media on web3 "financializing the web"

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