How I built $3B Next-Gen Identity Startup for AGI Era | World, Alex Blania | EO

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How I built $3B NextGen Identity Startup for AGI Era | World, Alex Blania Today's video features the story of Alex Blania, the CEO of Tools of Humanity, who is leading the Worldcoin project. Recently, the project underwent a rebranding in San Francisco and is now known as World. World is a company building infrastructure for the AGI era, addressing the issues that arise with the proliferation of bots in the AI age. By leveraging blockchain technology and hardware, they aim to prove human identity. An interesting point is that this vision originated from Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, and Alex was personally chosen by Sam Altman to be the CEO. In this video, Alex shares the story of how he was selected as a firsttime CEO by Sam Altman and what he has learned from some of the top CEO coaches. #worldcoin #samaltman #ceo 00:00 Intro 01:11 Chapter 1. Sam Altman asked me to become the CEO 04:42 Chapter 2. What I learned from the best CEO coaches 07:31 Chapter 3. Solving problems that have never existed 13:10 Chapter 4. Thoughts on Founder Mode EO stands for Entrepreneurship & Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected] Twitter | @EO__Global LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO Instagram | @eostudio.official EO Podcast 🎧 Spotify: https://bit.ly/442cRa1 Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3oH3NHC Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/40E1d2v Subtitles for this video were created using [XL8.ai](http://xl8.ai/) machine translation. EO stands for Entrepreneurship & Opportunities. Follow the podcast & turn on notifications for new episodes. EO Socials: Twitter twitter.com/eostudi0 LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/eostudio Official Website eostudio.io EO School welcome.eostudio.io Disclaimer: This fanmade podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by EO. All content rights and trademarks belong to EO. If you represent EO and have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. -------- ------- Keywords: startup success, business podcast, startup lessons, startup exits, venture funding Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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