Vision & Track Ahead

Station wants to make meaningful work accessible to everyone online, regardless of who you are and where you are.

We believe in a future where people are no longer fungible assets of corporations, but proud owners of their own vision, ideas, and relationships. To us, work transcends geographic borders, physical identity, and disciplines. Work is an expression of love, integrated symbiotically into our lives and the greater community.

Crypto networks demonstrate the potential of decentralized human coordination when incentives align and a shared goal is well understood. Without a centralized body, Bitcoin created the best-performing asset class of the decade, and Ethereum became the world’s fastest-growing computing platform. We look to do the same for digitally-native workers — to align incentives for the world's most ambitious builders to come together and form fluid organizations.

To create a network of fluid organizations, we can no longer rely on traditional enterprise software with rigid permissions control and a centralized database. Participating in and creating new projects on the decentralized web shouldn't be gated by arbitrary decision-makers, but with earned rights to participate based on one's contribution history. For communities to self-govern, we need to build the tools that make mutual collaboration and reward second nature.

It’s worth pausing here to consider the potential size of this new contributor economy. The number of unique Ethereum addresses, an indicator of unique participants, has passed the United States’ peak workforce of 164 million people. Unlike the US though — or any other nation-state — Ethereum is borderless and anyone can participate in its economy. The total addressable market should be equal to that of the internet, a total of 4.6 billion people as it stands today.

To start, we make hiring and onboarding contributors in Web3 easier. With Station, any team can spin up their own HR infrastructure to enable members to onboard, engage, coordinate, and reward each other. We will find the deepest empathy for users by utilizing our own products along the way, helping us craft the best people operations product in Web3.

A network will emerge as teams of contributors interact with the infrastructure we build. The on-chain contribution and relational data become high-fidelity representations of a contributor's relationships, reputation, and identity — all without compromising individual privacy. These data allow Station to become an ecosystem where anyone can discover others to form teams and build products and services that continue to push the boundaries of digital work.

At its best and most democratic, infrastructure offers social connectivity while affording those who have been marginalized on the outskirts of society the opportunity to pursue economic and creative freedom — be they writers that publish visual novels online, amateur gamers with a passion for digital fashion design, or teachers looking to own the compounding resources and relationships they developed alongside their cohorts of students. And in the future, everyone.