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/theojaffeeMy Substack: https://www.theojaffee.com/