#13: Nick Simmons - All About Urbit

Nick Simmons is a founding partner at Octu Ventures, a member-driven venture DAO investing in teams building on Urbit. Urbit is a new computing paradigm that provides complete ownership of your digital world.

0:00 - Intro

1:19 - What actually is Urbit?

5:43 - Urbit ID and Schelling points

9:05 - Why Urbit?

10:23 - Roko Mijic on Urbit vs. TikTok and Crypto

17:32 - Urbit vs. Worldcoin

22:26 - Niche or growth model?

28:50 - Why haven’t Urbit star prices recovered since 2021?

33:13 - Intrinsic value of Urbit address space

36:37 - Urbit as digital land

42:51 - Urbit and DeFi

45:42 - Personal AI on Urbit

51:35 - Urbit-native hardware

55:58 - Urbit design and aesthetics

1:02:15 - Outro

Urbit: https://urbit.org/

Octu: https://octu.ventures/

Urbit Blog: https://urbit.org/blog

“Creating Sigils”: https://urbit.org/blog/creating-sigils

“On Christopher Alexander”: https://urbit.org/blog/on-christopher-alexander

Nick’s Twitter: https://x.com/Halikaarn1an

More Episodes

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdJRQ6924HY&list=PLVN8-zhbMh9YnOGVRT9m0xzqTNGD_sujj

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IJRtB8FP4Cnq8lWuuCdvW?si=b4001cf2e8a5453f

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theo-jaffee-podcast/id1699912677

My Twitter: https://x.com/theojaffee
My Substack: https://www.theojaffee.com/