Bill Ottman | Source | CEO and Founder at Minds
Bill founded Minds in 2011 with the goal of bringing a free, open source, and sustainable social network to the world. He co-founded multiple viral media organizations; holds a fellowship at Boston Global Forum; and serves on the Advisory Board of Code To Inspire, a non-profit building coding schools for women in Afghanistan. He graduated from the University of Vermont with a BA in English.
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In response to the plethora of issues plaguing Facebook, including the current outage and whistleblower revelations on 60 Minutes, Minds CEO Bill Ottman issued the following statement:
“On this day – the ultimate day of karma for Facebook – the platform has experienced a devastating trifecta of events including a mysterious outage of border gateway protocol (BGP) systems, a massive data hack, and a new whistleblower exposing intentionally manufactured social outrage. No network is immune to outages, but a majority of these major issues were preventable. Social network platforms need to be held to a higher standard and provide real transparency, decentralization, and less gathering of users’ personal data. These are the pillars that founded minds.com.”
4 October 2021
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29 September 2021article
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Minds Is the Anti-Facebook That Pays You For Your TimeIn the wake of privacy scandals, Facebook users are newly realizing their data makes the company rich. What if platforms paid them for their contributions? -
29 September 2021articleMinds aims to decentralize the social networkEverything – from our currencies to our databases – are supposed to exist, immutably, in this strange new world. And Bill Ottman wants to add our social media to the mix.
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29 September 2021article
Minds raises $10M for decentralized and encrypted social network and messaging appMinds, a crypto social network, has raised $10 million from the tech freedom group Futo for its decentralized communications.
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Minds (www.minds.com)
CEO and Founder
started Jan 2011