Anna Kazlauskas | CEO and Co-Founder of Vana : Solving AI's Data Dilemma

About this episode

Anna Kazlauskas discusses her journey in decentralized AI and the challenges of building Vana, a platform for data ownership.

Anna Kazlauskas discusses her path from traditional finance to the world of decentralized AI. She describes what it’s like building Vana, a platform that lets people own their data and contribute it to AI models, and explains why tokenomics plays an important role in their setup. Anna also discusses the challenges of starting a Web3 company, including how important it is to hire people who share the same mission. She dives into the AI data shortage and how Vana tackles this with decentralized data ownership and data DAOs. Other key topics include the difference between data DAOs, trusts, and unions, why private data is valuable, and lessons from projects like the Reddit Data DAO. This episode has a lot to offer for anyone interested in the future of AI, data ownership, and building in Web3. Listen to Anna's founder journey with hosts Kenzi Watanabe, Sachi Mihara and Diksha Lyer.

People in this episode

Hosts: Kenzi Watanabe, Sachi Mihara, Diksha Lyer

Guest: Anna Kazlauskas

Topics covered

• AI
• data ownership
• Web3
• decentralized AI
• tokenomics
• data DAOs
• challenges in starting a company

Keywords

• AI data dilemma
• decentralized data
• data DAOs
• tokenomics
• Web3 challenges
• data ownership
• private data value

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vana, Reddit Data DAO