Episode 8: Chase Van Etten
Vaporware13 Syys 2024

Episode 8: Chase Van Etten

In a bit of a departure from our normal format, Daniel Keller⁠⁠ interviews Chase Van Etten⁠⁠, founder and CEO of Vaporware about his background and vision for the company.

We discuss:

  • Absorbing the California Ideology by osmosis growing up in Petaluma

  • How custom car culture informs Chase’s approach to technology

  • Gaming as CEO Mode trainer Vs. depressive real world agency drainer

  • Marketplaces as cooperation tech and the need to maximize informational flow rates

  • How Vaporware aims to address the complexities of social computing

  • Right and wrong approaches to standardization in software

  • The multidimensional problem space of growing a radical software project as a startup

  • Taking on megacorp incumbents by doing things outside the scope of their business model

  • The great app-less future, (that Apple doesn’t want you to have)

  • The Operating Function as a new paradigm in computing and foundation for a sovereign Exocortex

  • Functional programming providing the basis for reliable and trustworthy distributed systems and software

  • Vaporware’s competition and target audience

  • The political implications of our technology and legal and ethical challenges

  • Community sovereignty and individual sovereignty

  • Some differing views on the pace of AI development

  • How insanely high Chase thinks your monthly software bill is going to be in 10 years

  • Different ways you can participate in our project if you’re interested!

Artwork: Peter Cain, “Z”, 1989


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