Chris Herd
Thrive Global
United Kingdom
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Remote Work is the Next Operating System for Living
Life has changed more in the last 10 weeks than in the last 10 years. Globally, people are experiencing a new way of living. The catalyst is a global pandemic and though some things will return to ‘normal’ once it has passed other things wont. People don’t want to go back to certain things. Where […] → Read More
Who’s the Best Seed Investor on the Planet?
We are raising our first round of external investment into our business which means we are talking to an awesome number of people and getting feedback on our product, roadmap, prototype, and pitch… → Read More
We are all Digital Slaves
We are all Digital slaves. You. Me. Your Parents. Children if you have them. → Read More
The World’s Most Ominous Problem
We are all Digital slaves. You. Me. Your Parents. Children if you have them. → Read More
How Professions will be Killed by Blockchain and Machine Learning
Those which have enjoyed a monopoly for so long due to their protection by Royal Societies and Official registries. Those who require accreditation and continued professional development. I’m not… → Read More
One Moment Stopped Technology Ruining my Life
Peering over the top of my smartphone I caught my daughter doing something incredible but heart-breaking. Perhaps not incredible in the sense you would imagine, she never did anything otherworldly or… → Read More
Why Someone Stealing your Startup Idea is a Good Thing
Any founder worth their salt — who has grown their company to any significant scale and experienced any semblance of success — will tell you that one of the leading indicators that their startup has… → Read More
The Easy Thing About Hard Things
I’ve achieved very little during my increasing number of years on this planet so this isn’t some startup ode reflecting back and prescribing the survivorship bias that allowed me to become a… → Read More
The Billion Dollar SAAS Opportunity
They are a unique mechanism to ensure better decisions are made by forcing the people contributing to the choice to have skin in the game. It ensures you develop not just an opinion on the projects… → Read More
Why Cryptocurrency is the Next Operating System for Capitalism
It didn’t exist when exchange evolved to become a feature of humanities first economic system, nor will it persist when there is no advantage to using it. That time is approaching far quicker than… → Read More
Why Blockchain is a Hammer Looking for a Nail and Where it Might Find it
Your project almost definitely won’t benefit, even 1%, from choosing to use Blockchain. You’re not using it for anything innovative that a centralized Oracle database couldn’t do twenty years ago… → Read More
Body Modification Augmented Reality is your Future –
How you look is controlled by your genetics, but what if it wasn’t? → Read More
Where the Next £Billion Consumer Brand Will Emerge From
How much money do you spend each year on the same things? → Read More
A Ramp to the Future of Money and Why we Must use it to Reach Web 3.0
A majority of the people in the world aren’t going to wake up tomorrow and begin using cryptographically secure wallets to hold their personal wealth, nor are they going to switch to using tokens as… → Read More
Why you Will Kill Yourself and Abandon your Body to Live Forever
The rise of the cloud will continue but in a far more intimate way. Upload of our minds, and with it our consciousness, is only decades away. Would you choose to effectively live forever? Would you… → Read More
The Post-Capitalism Manifesto –
Scarcity, more than anything else, determines the conditions in which we live. Things that are in abundance determine not only our quality of life but our safety, happiness and ability to access the… → Read More
How Mergers and Acquisitions Could Occur on the Blockchain
Mergers and acquisitions are difficult. There is the initial negotiation, followed by all the legal wrangling that can take months. Ultimately, the whole process leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of… → Read More