21: Using Web3 to improve funding for students with guest speakers Ben Kanus & Theo Zipoy

Just in the US alone there are 43 million students who have taken out student loans totalling over US$1.6 Tillion. Sch0lar.io is building a solution to solve this enormous problem. My guests today are Ben Knaus the Chief Growth Officer and Theodore Zipoy the Chief Information Officer of Sch0lar. Ben's background is M&A.  He's an early adopter and investor in projects like BTC, ETH, DOT, and ADA. He is a contributor for Forbes magazine as well as hackernoon where he's been nominated for Bitcoin writer of the year. He's a part of the founding team at Sch0lar. Where he's focused on Blockchain and web3 solving real world problems. Ted leads business and product development at Sch0lar.io- Prior to his time at Sch0lar, Ted built an extensive background in the medical device industry including leading an internal innovation management team dedicated to scaling innovation and entrepreneurship within a leading medical device company. His team actively evangelized and scaled innovation through Design Thinking, design sprint execution, innovation strategy and planning, and innovation culture enablement. In this wide ranging discussion, we talk about How to enable new modes of funding for students Why build in Web3 and not Web2. How do you choose a blockchain to build your project How to overcome limitations of a DAO According to Ben and Ted What other Web3 projects have potential Please feel free to contact Ben and Theodore here https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodore-zipoy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-knaus-b81180134/ https://www.sch0lar.io/ https://twitter.com/Sch0larIO https://discord.gg/VWyPakt85G https://www.linkedin.com/company/sch0lar Join our Web3 Discord community - "https://discord.gg/2eJ7DVGcx6" It is free for only the first 100 members, after that entry will be only for people who hold a speaker badge NFT from this podcast. Connect with me here - https://twitter.com/samkamani 🎁 Also I will be giving away a free NFT once a week. All you need to do is share this podcast or screenshot of this podcast on Twitter and tag me @samkamani on twitter.