Marlene Ronstedt
Co-founder
Main focus: Tech Culture & Innovation
Twitter handle: @ronstedt
Websites/Blogs/Social Media Accounts:
www.ronstedt.space
www.playbyear.xyz
Social Media:
Languages: English, German
City: San Francisco
Country: United States
Topics: startups, silicon valley, art & tech, entrepreneurship, tech culture, innovation, future trends, ai & society, hype cycles
Services: Talk, Moderation, Workshop management, Consulting, Interview
Willing to travel for an event.
Willing to talk for nonprofit.
I speak about what's actually happening in Silicon Valley, beyond the headlines and hype cycles.
Marlene Ronstedt has spent the last decade in startups and tech, and is now based in San Francisco. She writes and speaks about technology as culture: how new tools reshape the way we work, communicate, and see ourselves, and how Silicon Valley's ideas travel into the wider world.
Her talks examine the gap between what tech companies promise and what actually changes in people's lives. She's interested in the social dynamics of innovation, the communities that form around new technologies, and the moments when hype collapses into something real or fades into nothing. She's spoken at major tech and media conferences across Europe, Asia and the US, and her writing has appeared in Forbes, WIRED, and CoinDesk.
Originally from Germany and now based in San Francisco, she brings an outsider's perspective to Silicon Valley. She's skeptical of the hype, fluent in the language, and focused on what it all means for the rest of us.
Examples of previous talks / appearances:
I got invited by DAO Planet to speak at Dcentral Miami about the Past, Present and Future of DAOs.
Why do we need DAOs in the first place?
You can just incorporate a company, have shareholder agreements and voting rights. No Need for a DAO.
The true innovation of DAOs goes beyond everything being on chain, it goes back to one of the early memes of the 1990s Internet:
“Online nobody knows that you’re a dog.” 🐕
DAOs are meritorcracies and enable a pseudonomous economy. It doesn’t matter who you are and where you come from, instead your skills are front & center.
This talk is in: English
At my favorite conference: ETHcc in Paris!
Surf to earn, drive to earn, bank to earn are just a couple of use cases the Data Union paradigm unlocks. By selling user data with their explicit consent and splitting revenues between users and builders dozens of new “x to earn” use cases become available driving user growth in Web3, giving users a share in the data economy and onboarding them to crypto.
This talk is in: English
The internet is broken. While Web 2.0 is rampant with surveillance capitalism, the next phase of the internet will have decentralisation at its core. How would Web3, with blockchain as its backbone, be different? Could it lead to a more cooperative web? What is the future of the internet? Here’s my talk for Goethe Institut Jakarta, the Center for Digital Society and Engage Media.
This talk is in: English