Silicon Valley people: escape from big factories and embrace Web3
2022-01-10
Web3 is becoming a new career choice for more and more Silicon Valley scientists. On January 7, Julien Gaillard, chief data scientist of twitter spaces, announced that she would join the defi lending platform AAVE. He tweeted: "Web3 was chosen because its core values are decentralization, innovation, fairness and experimentation." "Web3 and data science are a natural couple. The data on the chain is essentially high-quality, traceable and open source," he said Open source and transparency made him very excited about what to do next. Twitter screenshot Former colleagues on Twitter and netizens "passing by" congratulated Julien on finding a good job under Julien's Twitter. A netizen asked curiously: "you change your job because you see a great opportunity in Web3, and it is difficult to make a greater breakthrough in the traditional web2 field, or there are other reasons." The answer to this question may be self-evident. Regardless of China and the United States, the development of Internet giants in the web2 era represented by Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent has tended to be stable. It is becoming more and more difficult to get ultra-high return equity, salary and rank based on strength as it was 10 years ago. However, in Web3, this happens every day. Web3, Internet people's "new way out" The biggest difference between Web3 and web2 is that one is decentralized and the other is centralized. At present, the Internet industry we are in is a highly centralized industry, that is, the web2 era. After nearly 20 years of development, the innovation of the whole industry has solidified, and the Internet industry in the web2 era has become one of the most convoluted industries today. However, the Internet industry in the Web3 era has just begun. A trend is spreading from Silicon Valley to the whole United States, and this trend is gradually spreading to the world: top talents are changing from centralized companies to decentralized companies. Chatterjee is one of them. He "abandoned" the position of vice president of Google a year ago and became the chief product officer of coinbase, a cryptocurrency company. In April 2021, coinbase was listed with a market value of more than $50 billion, and chatge's shares exceeded $600 million. Google is not the only Internet company that needs to worry about brain drain. A number of large centralized Internet companies such as Amazon, twitter, Facebook and apple have found that their talents are not only circulating within the scope of peers as before, but pouring into the Web3 world represented by the blockchain industry. For example, David Marcus, the head of cryptocurrency business of Facebook, left the traditional Internet industry and joined the blockchain entrepreneurship project. LYFT, the chief financial officer of the taxi company, joined the blockchain star company opensea, which raised $300 million this month and is ready to go public. Capital has always been the wind vane of the times. Many professionals who have invested in the Internet have joined the team investing in Web3 track. For example, Matt Huang, a partner of Sequoia Capital, abandoned the traditional Internet investment track and established a risk fund such as paradigm, which invested heavily in Web3. On December 20, 2021, Hurun Research Institute released a report. At present, financial technology is the industry with the largest number of Unicorns in the world. The number of Unicorns reaches 139, accounting for 19.5% of the total value, more than unicorns in software services and e-commerce. Many companies themselves are members of Web3, such as coinbase and opensea, and some are traditional Internet giants In the Web2 era, such as Alipay, PayPal and Square of the United States, they are also actively transforming and understanding and joining the de centralized world, hoping that they will not be abandoned by the Web3 era. How to become a Web3 talent? Web3 is not a new term. It was proposed a few years ago. The actual reason for its explosion in 2021 is that NFT, Dao and other concepts have been widely practiced and applied. In foreign countries, NFT has penetrated into all aspects of people's life, nearly 10 million accounts are trading NFT, and star companies from all walks of life such as Nike, Coca Cola, New York Times and Ferrari have deeply participated in NFT content creation and brand marketing; In China, Alibaba Tencent Jingdong B station Almost all Internet giants have participated in NFT's entrepreneurship projects. Dao (decentralized organization) makes people realize that the organizational form of modern company is only the product of recent decades. It is also changing. Most of us may work and live in the new organizational form in the future. We can put forward an idea through Dao, and then unite all people with the same idea around the world to work together to do one thing and obtain corresponding rights and interests. For example, it is difficult for us to buy Leonardo da Vinci's paintings alone, but if there is a "Leonardo da Vinci's paintings in the National Palace Museum Dao", people with this idea will gather together, use the power of the group to bid for a painting and decide where a painting should be displayed. Of course, whether NFT or Dao, in the process of development, they will encounter all kinds of fraud problems and become a factor of social instability. At present, Web3 applications with financial attributes are also prohibited in China, hoping to protect the property safety of the masses to the greatest extent, which may make Web3 develop more healthily and safely. From cryptocurrency to defi, NFT, Dao The decentralized world depicted by Web3 is changing with each passing day and gradually approaching us. In breaking the circle again and again, Web3 has proved its vigorous vitality. Even in the case of strong supervision and de finance, it can still burst out a lot of energy and combine with various traditional industries. Internet people in Silicon Valley are already "migrating" to Web3. With the development of NFT and more technologies and projects, domestic Internet people may also have better track choices in the future. (Xinhua News Agency)
Edit：Li Ling Responsible editor：Chen Jie
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