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Happy Thursday!
Check my pulse. I’m excited. This is my first collaborative essay, and my collaborator is someone I’ve been a huge fan of for a while: Sari Azout.
Sari is an early stage investor, strategist, and author of one of my favorite newsletters, Check your Pulse (go subscribe now and come back).
Last week, she wrote an excellent piece on community-curated knowledge networks and is building a product in the space that I cannot wait to try.
Not Boring is all about telling the stories of the very big companies that have an outsized impact on the world and the markets today, and the very small companies on the bleeding edge that will shape the future. Sometimes, those companies are so bleeding edge that to explain them well in context, I need to bring in an expert. For social and programmable money and community-driven networks, that’s Sari.
The subject of today’s essay, Fairmint, has the potential to be massively impactful on a scale greater than we’re used to imagining. Its total addressable market is “equity” and it has the potential to expand that multi-trillion-dollar TAM by including more stakeholders in upside, aligning incentives, and unlocking new business models.
Let’s get to it.
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