Before fully transitioning into the crypto space, Jason Zhao was the youngest Product Manager at Google DeepMind. Now, at 25 years old, he is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Story Protocol, which recently secured $80M in a Series B funding round led by a16z.
Addressing the issue of AI utilizing data without consent and benefiting from it without sharing rewards with original creators, Story is transforming intellectual property into IP Legos—modular and programmable assets that can be licensed, managed, and monetized via blockchain.
Today, we delve into Jason’s journey as the youngest PM at Google Deepmind, his venture into crypto, solving real-world problems through Layer 1 blockchain, the challenges of IP enforcement and protection, his biggest challenge as an entrepreneur, and his ultimate goals.
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Timestamps
00:00 Teaser
00:48 Intro
01:04 What is Story?
02:36 How Jason first started Story
02:49 Jason's work as the youngest PM at Google DeepMind
03:20 Recognizing the problem created by AI that blockchain could solve
04:56 How Jason met SY
05:23 How Jason got into crypto
06:15 Libertarianism, socialism, and capitalism of blockchain
07:24 Studying CS and philosophy as an undergrad
09:01 Favorite school of thought
11:46 Representing a company through socials
13:10 Real-world problems that Story is solving
17:35 Who are the power-users of Story
17:44 Story's ecosystem partners from both Web2 and Web3
18:43 Why open source AI is much more important than closed source AI
21:34 Explain Story like I'm five
23:36 How Story wants to become an app store
25:54 What is remixing on Story?
28:08 Addressing potential challenges of IP enforcement
29:40 Multiple layers of IP protection
31:42 Strategy to onboard as much IP as possible
33:46: Why Jason is in Korea
34:25 Why Korea is an important market for Story
36:48 Story's envisioned community
37:58 Tech stack of Story
39:40 Why Layer 1
43:32 Investors' and advisors' reaction when Story transitioned to Layer 1
44:26 Story as a data availability layer or a settlement layer
45:45 Not being an object of an algorithm but a controller and a subject
50:24 Constitution and spontaneous order of a blockchain
53:05 Dispute mechanism and principles of Story
56:53 End goal of Jason
1:00:53 Satisfaction is deeper than hedonistic pleasure
1:03:09 Biggest challenge
01:06:00 Closing Thoughts
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