FMS: Founder's words
The still young year will bring significant change to FinFabrik - it already shows. While for most of 2018 we allowed ourselves to experiment and find our North Star, we are now on a clear path. While we were chasing revenue to ensure our survival, we can now plan ahead and work on things that will pay dividends down the road.
One central decision shaping our direction is to solely focus on digital assets. We are well aware that this may appear being a risky strategy at a time of depressed asset prices and negative sentiment in cryptoassets markets. Why take that route?
Two reasons:
First, we enjoy spending our energy on something in which we have strong beliefs and that we know can bring positive change to the world. We believe that the digitisation of alternative, illiquid assets using blockchain technology to create Digital Asset-Backed Securities adds some very interesting qualities to these assets (read on a deeper exploration). Leveraging these new qualities will allow us to broaden access to assets and capital, link supply and demand more efficiently and enable innovative new business models. Ultimately, we will make investment opportunity more accessible to anyone. We'll always have the joy of everyday work on a deeper mission, even if we are wrong with our assumptions about how the environment will change and we fail to achieve all our ambitions.
The second reason is to venture into new territory is to follow the risk/ reward logic by choosing a more binary distribution of outcomes. This development has the potential to transform capital markets if we take the risk and find out to be right. The attached upside for our company is significant and more interesting than to play it safe. We rather place large bets than hedge our bets.
Both of these reasons follow the simple idea that the price of anything is the amount of life we exchange for it. The biggest investment in FinFabrik is that people spend their valuable time, share their thoughts and energy to build this great company. We intend to make it worth our while.
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