/biz/ - Business & Finance

> Team
- Fully doxed and extremely solid (https://www.originprotocol.com/en/team))
- Made of real people (just reverse image search each picture from the teams page, everyone exists)
- Matthew Liu: Co-founder, Previously third YouTube Product Manager (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfP-PkstpP8))
- Yu Pan: Founding Engineer, co-founder of PayPal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal)), first employee at YouTube (https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-early-employees-list-steve-chen-chad-hurley-2020-5))
- 12 of 17 members are seasoned developers, including people that worked at YouTube, PayPal, Google, Dropbox (again, https://www.originprotocol.com/en/team))

> Funding
- $38 million in funding, three job listings (https://angel.co/company/originprotocol))
- Investors include YouTube co-founder Steve Chen and R*ddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (https://www.originprotocol.com/investors))

> Product (https://www.originprotocol.com/en/dshop))
- A marketplace to connect every type of buyer and seller
- Central pool of all listings using IPFS
- Already LIVE and working
- $11 million bid for an NFT music album a few days ago: https://twitter.com/OriginProtocol/status/1365916413421060096
- Backbone of Brave's store (yes, the browser, BAT): https://store.brave.com/#/
- Zero fees for sellers

> Dshop
- Self-serve interface to create new shops (https://medium.com/originprotocol/july-2020-origin-token-ogn-holder-update-fb6ac57ea9e1))
- Available directly on Google Cloud (https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/originprotocol-public/origin-protocol-dshop, https://medium.com/google-cloud/origin-launches-decentralized-commerce-on-google-cloud-marketplace-b74fb46be7d9))

> Example shops (not an endorsement, just examples found online. Never bought anything from these shops)
- https://bitcoinart.ogn.app
- https://kyber.ogn.app
- https://loldefi.ogn.app
- https://store.solana.com
- https://ternio.ogn.app
- https://thepeerart.ogn.app
- https://uphold.ogn.app
- https://zerion.ogn.app

OGN HODL $20 EOY

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