25-year-old Jason Zhao is a young entrepreneur raised in Silicon Valley, passionate about entrepreneurship and sharing ideas. He started experimenting with entrepreneurship in high school and founded a campus publication focused on the intersection of technology and society during college. Inspired by blockchain research, he quit his job to establish Story Protocol, which received continuous investment from a16z, with a total funding amount reaching $110 million. Jason believes that doing what you want to do is the simplest way to achieve success and happiness.

We are not a programmable intellectual property layer of blockchain; we are a programmable intellectual property layer of the internet.

"IP is not just media; it includes media plus rights."