Nick Fouriezos

Will the Metaverse Be Open or Closed?

The answer carries major ramifications for what metaverse creators and explorers will be able to build and do in tomorrow’s virtual worlds. Key Takeaways: Open worlds provide the capacity to freely create, sell, and exchange in-system assets for…

The Negative Rake: How Marketplaces Can Solve An Age-Old Dilemma

Co-founder and CEO of Braintrust, a user-owned talent network connecting enterprises with highly skilled tech talent in 48 hours. For anyone who's spent their career building and investing in two-sided marketplaces that were doomed to fail, odds are…

Who’s Hot in Washington?

When I first became a correspondent in Washington, D.C., it took me weeks just to find the Capitol Hill bathrooms. The learning curve hasn’t been so steep for a set of fresh-faced Washington politicos. Among them are a former nurse-turned-pastor…

Braintrust Launches BTRST Token to Decentralize Ownership, Control, and Governance on the Braintrust Network.

We’re ushering extractive economics out the door by replacing them with a true ownership economy, one in which workers control the network they make their living on — with the help of crypto. The way the world works, simply put, doesn’t. But after…

Why Braintrust Was Founded.

We’ve been building and investing in two-sided, web-enabled marketplaces our entire careers. We love the business model: create a trusted place to transact, ensure quality and reputation, build liquidity on both sides so buyers and sellers can meet,…

Buckle Up: Where Interest Rates Are Taking the Economy

Hear the rattling of coins? See your piggy bank shaking on the fireplace mantle? If you’re worried about the future of your savings and investments, know that you’re not alone. The Federal Reserve sent tremors through global markets last month by…

The Ground Shifts Under College Sports

College athletes have completed the ultimate Hail Mary. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that the NCAA was violating antitrust laws by limiting the benefits schools could provide to their athletes. Then on Monday the NCAA…

QAnon? Far From Gone

It’s the conspiracy theory that roiled the 2020 U.S. presidential election, inspiring claims of stolen ballots, anti-mask rallies and the infamous Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Yesterday, QAnon exploded back on the scene: Minutes after…

TikTok's Strange (and Wonderful) Subcultures

When I think of TikTok, the scream factory in Monsters, Inc. comes to mind. The app is a conveyor belt of doors, opening and closing, on some strange reality. You can quickly find yourself reeling from information overload — from real estate gurus…

Discover the Science of Fatherhood

Dads play only a bit part in raising children, right? WRONG! As you’ll find in today’s Daily Dose, a growing cache of research shows that fathers are getting ever more involved in their children’s lives. Not only is the idea of the attentive, present…

How America's Original Sin Lives On

America’s original sin — slavery — may have been outlawed more than 150 years ago, but it’s far from an arcane issue that was put to rest centuries ago. It still plagues the soul of that nation, and beyond, with its many modern-day iterations —…

20 Careers for the Roaring '20s

Time to dust off your jazz albums and flapper dresses: The roaring ’20s are back. A century after an unprecedented time of economic prosperity — albeit mostly felt by privileged Westerners — many are predicting similar fortunes for the 2020s as the…

Naomi Osaka: The Athletes Aren’t OK

Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka rocked the sports world by announcing she was pulling out of the French Open this week, and perhaps all tennis competition for the time being, while suffering from “huge waves of anxiety” and “long bouts of…

Harnessing the Power of Gold

Caption The lust over its glimmer, durability and scarcity has long enchanted a humanity that’s begged, borrowed and stolen to get its hands on this malleable metal. From ancient myths extolling its sacred nature and promises of immortality and power…

How to Find Tomorrow's Silicon Valleys

I had only recently moved back to my home state of Georgia this year when I met them: the Silicon Valley transplants. The three of them were an unlikely trio of former tech workers who had moved from Berkeley, California, to Atlanta after their…

How George Floyd's Murder Sparked Change

This is a moment for solemn reflection across America. One year after the murder of George Floyd, we can see progress in the fight for racial justice, as well as the long road ahead to achieving true equality. To mark this tragic anniversary, today’s…

Why the Future is HBCU

Historically Black Colleges and Universities have played a pivotal role in American higher education for the last 150 years, awarding degrees to students who have gone on to become some of America’s finest innovators, leaders and revolutionaries. The…

Will the NFL Score in 2021?

Can the NFL score big? The league is at a pivotal moment: its brand politicized, its audience shrunk by COVID and many of its stars retired. Football needs fresh stars to galvanize a new generation of sports fans — not just for the NFL, but for the…

Take Your Ears to the Movies

Welcome to this week’s edition of OZY’s Wherever You Get Your Podcasts. Raise your hand if you’ve watched one of the best picture nominees this year. Two of them? It’s been a tough year for movies and moviegoers. But audio has thrived. So why not…

16 Surprising Ways Climate Change Affects You

It’s a fault of humanity that we often don’t care about things until they personally affect us. Climate change, despite all the hand-wringing, is no different. But what if we told you that shifting temperatures are affecting you, impacting everything…