My colleague Stephanie Tower interviewed Zach Peister, co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Intrepid Ventures, the creators of the Metabase Network, earlier this year in Asia for CoinGeek.com. The interview covered top methods for designing products and services in the Blockchain space and as a follow up to their discussion, with an injection of iGaming industry perspective, I wanted to chat with Peister on how he believes Blockchain tech is set to disrupt our world.
Becky Liggero: Thank you for joining me today, Zach- it’s a pleasure to welcome your insights on CalvinAyre.com. Lets start with how you became involved with Blockchain tech. What drew you to Blockchain and why do you believe this technology is set to disrupt our world as we know it?
Zach Peister: I was actually working on a project to help foreign domestic workers (maids and helpers) in Singapore and Hong Kong to extricate themselves from what is essentially modern day slavery. I was searching for technology to help do this and that’s when I bumped into Collin Thompson in Hong Kong. Collin had been speaking with Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin and others in the founding team of Ethereum and he made the same introductions to me and then that’s when my life was forever changed.
After that I just went down the rabbit hole, exploring the technology and its potential impacts on humanity, the global economy and industry. I tried to learn all that I could about blockchain and began to meet as many people as possible in the field. Even beyond the hype, I truly believe in the disruptive power of the technology because it will serve and empower those that are disempowered either by socio economic class or by other circumstances. It will also enable businesses to develop new operating models that are required to thrive in the digitized, hyper-connected global economy. It will remove inefficient intermediaries that have hindered business processes and exponential economic growth, enabling more direct and instant connections to exist between people and businesses in both developed and developing countries.