Theme 2: Data DAOs

At the start of this trilogy, we told the story of Tushar Jain’s first company. As a recent graduate with a smattering of healthcare experience, Jain decided he wanted to build a business around the proliferation of electronic medical records. He’d asked himself, “what is the best use of this data?” 

Jain seems to be returning to this question in 2022. In our conversation, he highlighted “data DAOs” as an area of particular promise and a budding obsession. This time, the core question he has asked himself is: “What activity can you do as an individual that is not worth a lot, but becomes very valuable when many, many people do it too?”