The Shift #32
Building a Country on the Internet; Digital Nomads Nation; Why Information Grows; How to Get Your Clubhouse Invite.
The big idea💡
Could we build a country on the internet?
Sondre Rasch, CEO, SafetyWing spoke about this at Digital Nomad Summit 2020 and has just launched Plumia, an unrecognised country on the internet. Their core product is global health insurance - a ‘social safety net’ for remote workers but their long-term mission is building a digital country as a membership product.
A fast-moving and software capable, technology-startup that is build from the bottom up like a company selling products.
Exciting idea.
I’m not sure if a private company is best placed to do this but then someone has to build it, and that’s probably going to be a tech startup with a global workforce. They have the education and motivation to do it. They can create a portal, start the movement and bring others on board. But they can’t do it alone.
Now is the time. Covid-19 is accelerating things and remote working has gone mainstream. As Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO said, we’ve gone through two years of digital trans…
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