Partial Common Ownership/Plural Property: In Conversation with Will Holley, Graven Prest, Kevin Seagraves

In today's episode, Will Holley (Founder of 721 Labs), Graven Prest (Co-Founder of the Geo Web project), and Kevin Seagraves (CEO of NiftyApes) are three mission-focused entrepreneurs who join host Matt Prewitt in a roundtable discussion on the topic of Plural Property — RadicalxChange's umbrella term for Partial Common Ownership, Harberger Taxation, Self-Assessed Licenses Sold via Auction or SALSA, and Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax or COST.

NOTE: This is a regular season episode of the RadicalxChange(s) podcast. Our mini season of "A New Era of Democracy" will continue following this episode.

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Will Holley (he/him) is the founder of 721 Labs, a research and development company focused on Ethereum token standards and mechanism design. He is also the founder of CityDAO’s Network City initiative, the first IRL experiment using Partial Common Ownership, Harberger Taxes and Quadratic Funding to coordinate efficient private market funding of public goods. Will first engaged with Radical ideas and Web3 in 2020, after selling his last startup, a collectibles marketplace. A software engineer by training, Will previously worked in the fine art world, building machine learning models to predict auction results for Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

Graven Prest (he/him) is an entrepreneur and mechanism designer in the Web3 space. He's the co-founder of the Geo Web project (@TheGeoWeb)—an open protocol that creates consensus for browsing digital media anchored to physical locations (i.e. geospatial augmented reality). The network protocol uses partial common ownership to administer its digital land market and fund public goods.

Kevin Seagraves (he/him) has been building in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017. He was the lead engineer of Gitcoin Grants v0, co-author of EIP-1337, and a co-founder of the ETHSecurity community. Later, he went on to lead product at Charge before returning to the Gitcoin family and contributing to the Moonshot Collective and Scaffold-eth. He is now the CEO at NiftyApes, building tools for NFT traders, and is the creator of Harberger Style Lending Auctions.

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Production Credits

Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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