Joon Ian Wong is a founder of ACJR (acjr.network), a non-profit for journalists and researchers in crypto. He is also a researcher-in-residence at Rally. Joon has covered crypto since 2013 at CoinDesk and Quartz. He started the Consensus conference in 2015 and scaled it in subsequent years to become the industry's most important forum. He is an active consultant, advisor and angel investor to projects in the space.
Creators are discovering that they no longer need to be shackled by centralized rent takers, but can instead chart their own path.