The Unstoppable Power of Web3, Scaling Amazon with Jeff Bezos and the Future of Online Identity with Sandy Carter

Some notable quotables from Sandy Carter:

1. ON WHY WEB3 IS THE NEXT BIG THING (STILL):

Despite the SBF kerfuffle, Sandy is convinced that Web3 has killer use-cases which is already taking hold in ways many don’t expect— and that is proof that the undercurrent of change is already shifting.

“So there’s been a lot of hype about web three and blockchain, but I really wanna focus on the utility that it brings to the table.”

“In the Web2 world, we log in to the different applications: Google, Facebook with a username and password, which is your digital identity.

But it really doesn’t belong to us because all that data is actually owned by the platform. They monetize it and they get it. In fact earlier today I was on with a reporter, and he said to me that he had started this community for sharing his news and getting sources on Facebook. Yesterday, his entire group was just taken down.

He doesn’t know why he didn’t save any of the data. He’s trying to get the data. Facebook said, you don’t own that. We own that data. And so now he’s left in this position where he put years of work into something was taken down without him having any knowledge or understanding about why. And now he doesn’t have any of that material.”

And digital identity is just one of the many use-cases Sandy shared!

2. ON THE TIPPING POINT FOR MASS ADOPTION OF WEB3:

As someone who had lived through a few cycles (Sandy was working on the Watson machine that was on Jeopardy!)

“The tipping point for mass adoption will come when there is a great use case that everybody uses and they don’t even know it’s web three. I think we’re starting to see some of those today.

I just wrote an article for Forbes about what Nike and what Starbucks is doing. Their entire loyalty programs today are all web three based. Nobody really knows that.”

This completely made sense to me: loyalty programs benefit from the use of verified credentials, so much so IHOP and 7-11 are taking part!

3. ON LESSONS LEARNED IN WORKING AT AMAZON WITH JEFF BEZOS AND ANDY JASSY:

a. Customer obsession
“Amazon is customer obsessed. You always work backwards from the customer. Your senior executives aren’t spending 20% of their time with customers. They’re spending 80% of their time with customers.”

b. Ownership

“With ownership comes mistakes; and you’re a better leader when you make those mistakes”

c. Learn and be curious

“You have to keep digging. You can’t just stop. You have to learn and be curious.”

I particularly loved the last point that was illustrated with the creation of the DeepRacer competition by Amazon, which engaged the next generation in a creative way.

Tune in to more as we discuss:

– Sandy’s breakdown of the future of online identity

– Unstoppable Domains big announcements which will change the landscape of Web3 significantly

– The future of Web3 and the real use cases which needs to be prioritized by lawmakers!

ABOUT SANDY CARTER:

Sandy Carter is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development at Unstoppable Domains, a platform for user-owned digital identity. As COO, she is responsible for driving growth and developing business strategies in pursuit of the company’s mission to provide user-owned identity for the world. She also drives partnerships and integrations for Web3 and the Metaverse. Prior to Unstoppable, Sandy was a VP at AWS where she created and grew businesses in emerging tech, leveraging AI, blockchain, and AR/VR. Before that, she was a General Manager at IBM and a Silicon Valley start-up founder.

Sandy is a leading voice in technology, social media, Web3 and the metaverse who has been recognized as a Top 10 Most Powerful Woman in Tech by CNN and as a top AI influencer per Onalytica. Sandy Carter is a Board Member at Altair, an AI company, Chairman of the Board for the non-profit Girls in Tech, a past member of the Diversity Committee at the World Economic Forum, the founder of Unstoppable Women of Web3 and a founding member of Blockchain Friends Forever (BFF). She has won numerous awards including 2023 Crunchbase Influential Women in Sales List, 2023 CRN Channel Chief, Top 100 Global Thought Leader by Awards Magazine, Top 150 Business Transformational Leaders, a Top 100 Chief Tech Leader, Top 115 Most Inspirational Women of Web3/Metaverse, 100 Women Davos, Two Lovies Awards for Best Metaverse HQ, Top 14 Edge Leader, Federal 100 Award Winner, Top 100 Women of the Future, and PwC Game Changer. She is a member of Fortune Most Powerful Women. She is fluent in eight programming languages and is the author of five books, which won the Platinum MarCom Award and the Silver Marketing Sherpa award.

About Unstoppable:

Launched in 2018, Unstoppable Domains is a Web3 domain name provider and digital identity platform working to onboard the world onto Web3. Unstoppable Domains offers Web3 domains minted on the blockchain that give people full ownership and control of their digital identity, with no renewal fees. With Unstoppable Domains, people can replace lengthy alphanumeric crypto wallet addresses with a human-readable name and log into and transact with more than 720 apps, wallets, exchanges and marketplaces. The company was named by Forbes as one of America's Best Startup Employers in 2022.

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