In this conversation, we chat with Sandy Carter - Chief Operating Officer at Unstoppable Domains, a Web3 domain name provider. Additionally, she founded Unstoppable Women of Web3 (WoW3), a membership organization focused on training the next generation of women leaders in Web3.
Prior to Unstoppable Domains, Sandy was vice president for public sector partners at Amazon Web Services, where she drove partnerships in cloud, machine learning, IoT and blockchain, growing the ecosystem over 45%. She also founded a startup in Silicon Valley and served as general manager of ecosystems and startups at IBM. Sandy is the chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley and the author of “Extreme Innovation.” She holds a B.A.Sc. in computer science from Duke University and an MBA in managing technology and marketing from Harvard Business School.
Topics: crypto, blockchain, web3, metaverse, identity, AI, deepfakes, generative AI
1’31”: Exploring professional background: Key experiences and journey to Web3 and crypto
6’51”: Navigating large tech companies: Challenges and insights from senior roles in IBM and Amazon
12’17”: Discovering Web3 and journey to Unstoppable Domains: Understanding the product and service offering
19’28”: Unpacking non-custodial data and digital identity: How Unstoppable Domains facilitates access across multiple platforms
23’02”: Acquiring an Unstoppable Domain: Understanding the role of MetaMask, NFTs, and smart contracts in establishing a blockchain identity
31’12”: Confronting digital reality: The increasing importance of digital truth verification in an AI-driven world
36’17”: Balancing power: Navigating the intersection of AI giants and Web3's open source data authenticity mission
39’24”: Assessing metaverse economics: Unraveling the business sector and activity underlying digital exchanges and objects
44’53”: The channels used to connect with Sandy & learn more about Unstoppable Domains
Sneak Peek:
Sandy Carter: Unstoppable have really made it our mission, our purpose to deliver that digital identity to every person on the planet. We want people to own their own data and to own their own digital identity.
So, for example, in the Web2 world today, when you go and sign into, let's say, a Google or a TikTok or a Instagram, you're logging in with your username and password and that is your digital identity but then all the data, as you're logged in, belongs to the platform pretty much. There are some exceptions but pretty much the data belongs to that platform. And that's why you see companies like Facebook and Google monetizing that data to the tune of a $100 billion because they own the data. I don't know if you've seen some of the recent news, but they can actually charge you for using some of your own data or, if that company doesn't make it and they go under, you lost your data because it's not really your data, it's their data.
So, now, if you fast forward to Web3, in the Web3 world, you own your data, you get to decide who gets access to it, when, how, how much and how long. So, your data is very easy for you to access, you can share it when you want to and, not only that, but now you have a simpler and easier way to log into applications. So, you log in, like my ID which you see on the screen is sandy.nft. Sandy.nft, I can use that to log into about 600 different applications around the world from Cook Finance, which is a decentralized finance or DeFi application to a metaverse or game like Snook which is really popular in Asia right now to maybe an application for doing my taxes.
Last night, I was just playing around with a new kind of management tool for your NFTs, and I was able to use sandy.nft to log into that. And again, I decide what data I want to share with that application or with that company, it's all up to me and what I want to do. So, our mission and our purpose is really big. Given we want to get a digital identity into the hands of every person, today, we have 3.5 million…
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