What used to be the hard parts of many problems are quickly coming within easy reach. There is a growing backlog of demand to apply rapidly evolving technologies to a diverse array of problems with real impact on people's lives. At the same time, the speed and scale of online organization, a now mature phenomenon, represents an untapped potential to create effective action wherever there is mass incentive-alignment. This demand to directly employ life-changing technologies will not wait for the speed of traditional capitalization and product cycles.
Developing business models can sometimes add prohibitive friction between innovation and adoption. Bending technology to fit behind a toll-gate takes time and impedes value. When almost 100% of the value creation will be downstream, spending time figuring out the upstream business models only slows down people who are ready to create real value now.
Our mission is connect demand for downstream value creation directly to upstream enabling technologies.
Wherever ready demand exists, we want to connect it with capable hands. Downstream customers & value creators don't care if or how a technology will be profitable for hypothetical upstream service providers. Downstream value creators need direct access to these enabling technologies in order to adapt them for the real applications, the long-tail of hard science & engineering problems that deliver life-changing solutions. Their customers are counting on them to deliver the next wave of advances in biomedical, material, and energy solutions.
Our first product, PrizeForge, begins by unlocking this latent downstream value for communities of users of open source software. PrizeForge is a new model for financing the production of upstream tools needed by those who create downstream value.
For decades we have been waiting for "more volunteers" while collectively missing years of opportunities. Millions of users share the same problems. These are millions of people with jobs, specialized skills, but not the specialized skills they would need to work on the software they use every day. It's time to get the right resources into the right hands. Check out our vision to learn more
Hell yeah! I still don't quite understand what exactly PrizeForge is, but I am aware that you are attempting to tackle a fundamental problem that I am interested in.
As another era of rapid innovation unfolds, we should make the most of it. We can't rely on massive legacy platforms. They will invest billions in technologies that only look like the products they already sell. Their implementations will be unique to their massive data centers and huge stockpiles of user data. PrizeForge will give millions of users a way to build technologies that looks like how we want to use it to build things we actually want.
We want to hit the mark. You can help us stay aligned by letting us know how we're doing. To know us a little bit better, read up on our values or check out our YouTube channel where we have a playlist explaining our vision for some new relationships that are emerging.
We are looking for early employees and co-founders. Our mission, values, and the skills we need are on our our careers page. If you have critical skills and experience and feel a strong personal alignment with the mission and our products, you can send us a resume and we will get in touch.
We have not raised capital yet. We are ready to grow. Our business model resembles value-add services for marketplaces. Unlocking our ultimate growth potential covers similar ground to what fintech startups have to navigate. If you might be a good match for a board seat, reach out to us
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