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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

One invoice. I would pay each product provider in their own token: one for storage, compute, caching/CDN, email subscription management, etc. Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure. I paid for them each in US dollars every month.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. You don’t hear about the blockchain initiatives anymore. It’s easy to buy more and it’s easy to have recurring subscriptions. Is AWS in the lead?