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Jonathan Victor, Co-Founder of Ansa Research, former Ecosystem Lead at Protocol Labs
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Mahesh and Connor are joined by Jonathan Victor. Jonathan formerly worked on Filecoin at Protocol Labs, and left to found Ansa Research, a research firm focused on distributed infrastructure covering digital networks that aim to rebuild how internet infrastructure operates.
Jonathan talks about how his Palantir background influenced his time at Protocol Labs, why content addressing is a critical component to the future of the web, what the long-term Filecoin roadmap looks like, the protocol’s recent investments into retrieval, where Filecoin and other storage protocols fit into the broader ecosystem of enterprise storage, and clears up Filecoin’s revenue model.
0:00 Cold Brew Open
0:40 How Jon’s background at Palantir led him to Filecoin
4:28 Jon’s Decentralized Infrastructure Theses
9:42 How the Various Storage Solutions May Work Together in the Future
13:33 Filecoin’s Long-term Roadmap
20:03 Filecoin and Retrieval
24:55 Storage as a Commodity or a Differentiated Offering
29:30 Why Location Matters in Storage
34:04 IPFS and Filecoin’s Value Prop
39:33 How Filecoin Cultivated it’s robust developer ecosystem
43:42 Filecoin’s Revenue Model and Transparency
50:47 Where to find Jon’s Work
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