At SmartCon 2022, Chairman of Steel Perlot and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Chainlink Co-founder Sergey Nazarov sat down for a fireside chat.
Featuring:
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO.
Sergey Nazarov, Chainlink Co-founder.
0:00 - Introduction
0:10 - Web3 Has Gotten Big
0:22 - Welcoming Eric Schmidt
1:00 - What Attracted Eric to Web3
2:30 - How Tokens Change the Economics of Businesses
5:21 - The Challenges of Cross-Chain for Building a Scalable Business
7:41 - New Industrial System Powered by Blockchains, Smart Contracts, and Oracles
9:33 - Eric Believes in the Vision of Web3 but Is Skeptical About Some of Its Claims
10:23 - How Web2 and Web3 Will Converge
11:00 - Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Cryptographic Truth Are Major Contributions To Computing
12:29 - What New Services Are Enabled by Web3?
14:31 - The Possible Intersection of Web3 and AI
17:05 - How Eric Sees Web2 and Web3 Systems Interacting
19:44 - Questions Surrounding Web3 and Regulation
22:17 - Similarities Between the Evolution of Web2 and Web3 Infrastructure
27:58 - Parallels With Early Internet Business Tactics
29:51 - New Business Models Enabled by Web3
31:18 - How Eric Thinks About Web3 Infrastructure
33:56 - Eric Is Interested in Use Cases That Aren’t Possible in Web2
35:14 - “A Little Piece of Google in Everyone’s Computation”
37:24 - What Attracted Eric to Chainlink and Oracles
38:02 - Eric’s Advice for People Thinking About Joining the Web3 Industry
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