For whom the benefits toll: Enterprise blockchain is the evolution of economic architectures

Cointelegraph

Published Dec 19, 2020 12:27PM ET

Updated Dec 20, 2020 02:20PM ET

In my two-decade career at Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), leading .NET platform architecture, visual studio .NET development, application platform, enterprise strategy and Microsoft Digital, I have been part of building technologies for multiple waves of platforms: the early web, service-oriented architectures, the so-called Web 2.0, and more recently, the Cloud.

While there is no doubt that previous waves of platform technologies have delivered substantial benefits, their impact has been limited because they are “passive” stacks that serve as plumbing for applications and infrastructure. For the most part, with previous waves of platforms, cost savings have been the primary and sometimes singular quantifiable element with respect to business outcomes.

John deVadoss is a founding director of the InterWork Alliance and co-chairs the Token Taxonomy Framework Working Group. He leads development for Neo Blockchain, based in Seattle, Washington. Previously, he built and successfully exited two machine-learning startups. Earlier in his career at Microsoft, John incubated and built Microsoft Digital from zero to $0.5 billion in revenue; he led the architecture, product and developer experience for the .NET platform v1 and v2, and was instrumental in creating Microsoft’s Enterprise Strategy.

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