==Jordan Hall is co-founder of **[[Civium Project]]**.== --- ## About: - While studying at Texas A&M and Harvard University, I was fascinated by the idea that industries, economies, and societies as a whole can be entirely disrupted by technology delivered in the right way, at the right time. With this philosophy in mind, I was one of the first employees at MP3.com, where we reinvented the music industry by allowing people, not record companies, to control what music is popular. - After experiencing how consumer related movements operate digitally, I doubled down on my entrepreneurial drive and co-founded DivX in 2000, when I was 29 years old. DivX fundamentally changed how the world watched videos online and empowered over one billion people to experience the entertainment they cared about, anywhere, and on any screen. By the time I was 35, I raised over $150M and took the company public with a $600M IPO, one of the top technology IPO’s of the year. - After my exit from DivX, I have continued to influence and lead organizations using the corporate form as a dynamo to deliver social change. One of those organizations is the Neurohacker Collective, where we are applying complex systems science to neuro-technology to provide people with the tools to become maximally capable and fully responsible. Another organization is Backfeed.cc, where we are innovating the 3rd generation of blockchain technology - building a stigmergetic framework to allow collective intelligence to scale. - Jordan is now in his seventeenth year of building disruptive technology companies. - Classic “Ready Player One” style 80’s nerd. Comics, science fiction, computers, way too much TV and role playing games. Oh, so many role playing games. Naturally, these interests led to a deep dive into contemporary philosophy (particularly the works of Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda), artificial intelligence and complex systems science in college in the early 90’s and then, as the Internet was exploding into the world, a few years at Harvard Law School of all places where he spent time with Larry Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain and Cornel West examining the coevolution of human civilization and technology. - Starting in 1998 he then tried to put all this stuff to use combining disruptive technology, movement building and a taste for going up against obsolete oligopolies. First as an early employee crafting strategy and product for MP3.com, then at InterVU (acquired by Akamai) and then finally in 2000 launching and leading the online digital video revolution as founder and CEO of DivX. - After somewhat successfully navigating two financial crises and an IPO (and going down in flames at Stage6), he left the helm at DivX to return his attention to the big picture. He tried his hand at capitalism – combining Angel investment at the sharp edge of the Schumpeter wave — with participation in a number of think tanks and institutes; most notably, the Aspen Institute and the Santa Fe Institute where he served on the Board of Trustees for five sweet years. - This exposure led him to the conclusion that humanity is in the midst of a world historical transition which will likely kill all of us (see Mad Max) but just might end in a truly amazing future (see Star Trek). Getting there is going to require many things of us – most notably a significant upgrade of our individual and collective capacity for thought and action. --- ### Links: - xx --- ### Social: - Twitter: www.twitter.com/jgreenhall - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jordangreenhall - YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCMzT-mdCqoyEv_-YZVtE7MQ - Medium: www.medium.com/@jordangreenhall --- ### Focus: #artificialintelligence #collectiveintelligence #complexityscience #complexsystems #GameB #metacrisis #neurotechnology #philosophy #technology