I was fortunate to be able to sit down in December with the amazing Austin Hill, Canadian VC and multi-time entrepreneur, to talk to him about the oldest form of economics: The Gift Economy and how Akoha.org (coming soon) fits into this. The video (embedded below) is well worth your time. Austin is a totally good soul and I’m really looking forward to the release of Akoha.
(I don’t know if you can see the video below in a newsreader, sorry if you can’t!)
(thanks to Alyssa Contreras for the editing)
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Great edit & post Tara.
It was lots of fun to sit down with you.
For people who want a reference to the book I mention who’s premise is “Helping people gets you laid” it can be found here on Amazon.
Generous Man – “How Helping People is the Sexiest Thing you Can do”
http://tinyurl.com/2rw87j
Great book on the role of altruism in evolutionary theory.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am
GREAT interview, many thanks for taking the time to put this together. looking forward to Akoha.org!
April 10th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Guys with goatees and berets. Yeah. Waaaayyyyy too trendy.
BTW, and I am not some anti-evolution guy, if via evolution we are naturally selected to be altruistic, why do we need government? Isn’t Madison’s “if men were angels” arguement basically defutes this theory? As an ex-engineer, sometimes I think of science like the Scots think of Scotland, “if it isn’t physics and chemistry, ITS CRAP!”
April 10th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
You have to revise your opinion. Repeating this nuttery misses your point. Give us proofs. Not just with words, but with deeds.