#106 - Understanding Decentralization in your 20s

with Frank Mong from Helium

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🧠 For Episode #106, we were joined by Frank Mong from Helium and Nova Labs.

Frank Mong is COO of Nova Labs (formerly Helium Inc.), where he is responsible for sales, marketing and business development for the company. Before Helium, Mong spent 20 years in cyber security including CMO at Hortonworks, SVP of Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, and VP/GM of security at HP.

The Helium network is one of the best known plays on Web 3.0 and IoT technology. It sells hotspots to users, which, once activated, provide wireless internet to other users in geographic proximity. The hotspot is best described as similar to a wireless router that anybody can connect to. The best part is that the project is decentralized, meaning the users themselves control the future of the network. Also, the users have full ownership over their own hotspots, meaning the collective of hotspot operators own the network.

🎙 In this episode we spoke about:

• What is decentralization and why you should care

• Owning mistakes in your 20s

• Getting involved in fast-moving industries

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🚀 On this week’s segment of Top 3 Things for Twenty-Somethings, we spoke about:

• Chris Brown’s NFT flops

• Rising podcast listenership draws advertising dollars

• Google exec says IG and TikTok are eating into google search and maps

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