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Juan Benet of Protocol Labs on Driving Breakthroughs in Computing
PVC Team on
5.13.2023
Watching time
12
min
Juan Benet founded Protocol Labs in 2014 when he was building IPFS and Filecoin, two foundational technologies of the decentralized internet and Web3. In this talk from LabWeek22 last November in Lisbon, Juan explains the importance of R&D, the lack of funding it receives, and how he hopes to solve this problem with Protocol Labs, an ecosystem of teams based on open source, working together bridge what he calls the innovation chasm — the separation between research and deployment of product.
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