Breakfast with Rhodes
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Draper Esprit plc
20 Garrick Street London WC2E 9BT United KingdomDescription
Blockchain, Decentralised Internet and the Token Economy
For this first installment we will be hearing from Muneeb Ali, Co-Founder of Blockstack, a new internet for decentralised apps, working towards taking the Internet back to its decentralised roots.
Blockstack's story was featured in Forbes magazine, and Muneeb gave a TedX Talk on his work.
More information: Dr. Muneeb Ali co-founded Blockstack, a new internet for decentralized apps where users control their data. Muneeb received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University specializing in distributed systems. He went through Y Combinator and has raised over $58M for Blockstack in venture capital and token sale from investors like Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Naval Ravikant etc. Muneeb was awarded a J. William Fulbright Fellowship and gives guest lectures on cloud computing at Princeton. He has built a broad range of production systems and published research papers with over 1,000 citations.
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The Rhodes Scholars in Britain is an alumni network for Scholars based in the United Kingdom. The group seeks to foster social, professional and intellectual interactions among Rhodes Scholars currently in Britain as well as establish greater connections between such alumni and Rhodes House and its current Scholars.