Jake Wood, Founder & CEO of Groundswell
Behind Company Lines
Chapters
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Introduction: Scott Dykstra, CTO of Space and Time & Purandar Das, CEO of Sotero
1:31
Scott Dykstra: Before Space and Time
2:20
What Space and Time is trying to accomplished?
3:44
Locking Down Data into a Centralized Database
5:13
Censorship Resistance
7:25
Data Centers in Space: Is it Possible?
8:21
About Sotero and the Strategic Direction of the Company
9:50
Sotero & Space and Time Partnership
14:32
WhySpace and Time needs Sotero
16:53
Run a Query and Encryption
21:30
Any Search Query is Patterns
22:22
Space and Time set out to connect SQL query results directly to smart contracts in a decentralized trustless way.
23:55
The Value Proposition
26:34
User-Operated Data Warehouse Clusters
29:48
How far are you in real world value delivering? Who are the competitors?
32:01
The Value Proposition of Sotero
34:50
The Line Between Traditional Infrastructure Development and Defi
37:47
Hacks: Primary problem to solve?
39:27
Censorship resistance and Private Auditing of Sensitive Third Party Banking Information
44:03
Infrastructure and Data
45:29
Thoughts on the Ongoing Tension Between Using Cryptocurrency and Fiat USD
50:58
Freedom of Currency
54:43
U.S. Global Influence Expand to be a Significant Threat?
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Behind Company Lines
Jake Wood, Founder & CEO of Groundswell
Mar 17, 2023 Episode 204
Hosts Julian Torres and Mike Townsend, sponsored by Otter Labs

Jake Wood is the founder and CEO of Groundswell, a software company that enables companies to make philanthropy an employee benefit. Groundswell launched in 2021 after raising $15 million in venture capital led by Google Ventures. 

Prior to launching Groundswell, Wood served as the founder and CEO of Team Rubicon, a disaster response organization that is widely considered one of America’s leading nonprofit organizations.

Jake is a Marine Corps veteran with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a twice-published author, a frequent contributor in the media, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.


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