Thread by @balajis

Crypto people who need a steady salary might actually consider joining Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon.

Why?

Big tech only went south recently. A few principled voices internally can still shift the conversation. And you might get cancelled, but there’s a job on the outside.

https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1397560052052025351

All of these companies are going to need tons of crypto talent as the cryptoeconomy becomes the main event of the 2020s.

Crypto stands against censorship and surveillance, and for privacy, pseudonymity, transparency, open source.

Help them make money while becoming more fair.

Short of the return of Larry Page, I don’t think it’s doable to bring (say) Google back to what it was before 2013.

But these institutions aren’t as far gone as the state. And an infusion of principled crypto people may blunt the worst-case scenarios for abuse of surveillance.

Of course, most of the energy still needs to be on the outside. We need to scale the cryptoeconomy to $10T and beyond. It’s that scale which gives us leverage to push reforms.

Analogy: the success of Linux over a decade eventually gave Satya the mandate to reform Microsoft.

But if we have some key folks at every major tech company, saying “Bitcoin, Ethereum, zero knowledge, decentralization!” till they’re blue in the face — just as their predecessors at Microsoft in the 2000s did for open source and Linux — that gradually builds the case for reform.