Privacy, Pseudonymity, and a Freedom-Based Life

About this episode

In this episode, Simon Clowes interviews Digitalgal about privacy, pseudonymity, and the implications of visibility in the digital age.

“Privacy is sovereignty. It’s about choosing what’s mine to share.” — Digitalgal In a hyper-public internet, visibility has become currency. We’re taught that more platforms, more posts, and more personal detail equate to more opportunity. “Building in public” became the expectation and mantra for creators and founders, particularly in Web3. Visibility was everything. Share more, show more, and success would follow. But what happens when the persona you project starts costing you your privacy, your safety, your quality of output, and your time? In this episode of Object Subject Form, Simon sits down with Digitalgal (@dgtlgal), co-founder of Inner Core Ventures, a Puerto Rico–based venture studio building acquisition-ready digital startups. Digitalgal is an entrepreneur who retired at 31 and chose freedom as her design constraint. An early Web3 adopter since 2016, she has built companies, incubated products, championed remote-first teams, and eventually chose pseudonymity as a way to align her work with her values of privacy and sovereignty. She has been committed throughout her career to maximizing the productive potential of remote working, global teams, and freedom-based…

People in this episode

Host: Simon Clowes

Guest: Digitalgal

Topics covered

• privacy
• pseudonymity
• Web3
• entrepreneurship
• remote work
• digital business models

Keywords

• privacy
• pseudonymity
• Web3
• entrepreneurship
• remote work
• digital startups
• freedom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Inner Core Ventures

Places: Puerto Rico

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