LIBRA: Rising tides of change lift all the boats
For the past few days, my social media feed has been overwhelmed with comments, opinions, and notes about the announcement of Libra, Facebook’s new global blockchain protocol and cryptocurrency.
A few reached out to me both in private and on social media and in public to ask for my take. I have been, as several indicated, “noticeably and oddly silent.”
I can now reveal that this is because of my involvement with the Creative Destruction Lab. CDL is a global science and technology seed-stage program founded in Toronto and distributed across Seven cities in three countries and was announced today as one of the Libra Association’s founding partners.
The Creative Destruction Lab is a not-for-profit seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. Its nine-month program pairs founders with experienced entrepreneurs and investors to set focused, measurable objectives with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. Founded in 2012 by Professor Ajay Agrawal at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, the program has now expanded with locations in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, and Oxford. Since its…
