Episode 160: Zero to CEO: The state of the digital economy with Sean Moss-Pultz

In this episode of Zero to CEO I talk to Co-Founder and CEO of Bitmark Sean Moss-Pultz about the state of the digital economy. Sean founded and served as CEO of Openmoko, the world’s first open-source phone and precursor to the iPhone and Android smartphones. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitmark, a blockchain startup that aims to bring traditional property rights into the digital age by providing tools that enable anyone to affirm ownership and control digital assets they create and post online. They’ve raised $10.3M in funding from investors, including Alibaba and Kevin Lin (Co-Founder of Twitch), and their clients included Pfizer, UC Berkeley, Health2Sync, and KKBOX. One of their products is Autonomy, the world’s first and only digital art wallet that allows traders to showcase their NFT collection and view it on any screen, TV, or projector, anywhere. We discuss property in the digital environment and how we can secure personal data in an age when it has become fully commoditized. Sean answers whether or not the new digital economy will stay or go bust. He gives his thoughts on the current state of the NFT market, and the future of NFTs. Finally we discuss the most challenging aspects of running startups and how to overcome them.