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T. TaulliHow to Create a Web3 Startuphttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8683-8_1

1. Why Web3?

It’s a Rethinking of the Internet
Tom Taulli1  
(1)
Monrovia, CA, USA
 

Since childhood, Gavin Wood has been interested in the convergence of economics and game theory.1 He even co-published a board game of strategy. He was also an avid computer programmer, having started at age eight.

When Gavin became an adult, he worked at startups as well as Microsoft. His main focus was on leveraging computer visualizations and machine learning for music and audio systems.

In 2013, he met Vitalik Buterin, a programmer who wrote a paper about Ethereum, which was based on the emerging ...

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