Kane Lu

Your Startup story......?

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I am currently a founder of a VC-backed startup and only recently joined Product Hunt. I joined to accomplish 3 things 1) Get closer to the new products coming to market 2) Open up the avenue of potentially launching a product on PH 3) Connect with like minded product enthusiasts through hearing thier stories I noticed quickly that one of the parts is missing in some of these forums..... the STORY! I would love to hear some of your backgrounds of how you all landed in the startup/entrepreneur space and hear your stories on what made you all so passionate about devoting yourself to a product.

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Leonor Montero
Cool! Nice to meet you dude! Which startup is it?
Zekiye Nur Kesici
Here's our story and about us page, it is fresh out of the oven! Any feedback is welcome, people! https://www.beforesunset.ai/abou...
Kane Lu
I will go first: I was working at Microsoft before jumping into this new venture. To be honest, I was actually loving mytime in big tech, great benefits, smart people and a passionate environemnt. However, I didn't feel challenged. During the same time, I started investing in crypto as I had some spare capital laying around and fell 10 feet deep into the rabbithole. What I noticed quickly was the lack of actual product and more just hard marketing that was happening in the Web3 space. With a background in tech transformation and sales, I decided to join a group of my friends in starting a Web3 startup. We are now focused on building the best and most simple onboarding experience for people who wnat to get into the Web3 space. Why am I focusing on this area? I believe that everyone should have access to this ground breaking technology. It changed my life and opened up the doors to so many experiences and opportunities and I think it could do the same for many others. Long one... but would love to hear others tell their stories :)
Alex Todd
Hello. Thanks for asking. - I am a social entrepreneur and innovator - My interests and professional pursuits have focused on improving conditions for trust in order to accelerate the volume, velocity, and value of transactions in order to help people and organizations prosper. - In 1991, I developed the world's first do-what-mean time and information manager, a natural language expert system for personal information management that allowed users to enter notes in a digital scratch pad and have automatically interpreted for their intended purpose and categorized for subsequent action, which was recognized by BYTE Magazine at the time. - I sold it successfully online on CompuServe before the WWW. That's when I realized the unprecedented power of the Internet for improving conditions for trust. - Those experiences and insights set me on a lifelong career focused on optimizing conditions for trust that ranged from cryptography to supply chain management to corporate governance. - My published research revealed that firm performance was correlated with conditions of trust created by corporate governance practices, which ultimately led to proposing a Humanistic Corporate Governance framework that empowers organizational stakeholders with a voice around the boardroom table in order to ensure that organizations (legal persons) serve the interests of natural persons. - This, combined with my work at PRESTO (Ontario's public transit fare payment system), intended to incentivize Ontario citizens to adopt a healthier lifestyle and the advent of blockchain technologies, I realized that we could use this technology help people be trusted by strangers and thereby gain easier access to global opportunities. - That was the stimulus for developing ReliablyME, a blockchain-enabled social credit system that recognizes people for their authentic self and social worth.
Kane Lu
@alex_todd We definitely need to collaborate at some point Alex, the product you are working on sounds really interesting. Look forward to seeing and hearing about your success :)