Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci


I've been a big fan of Brave Browser ever since attending a presentation from Brandon Eich back in 2017.  Brave was one of the first browsers to aggressively block the ability for websites to share information on your computer without your consent (i.e. third party cookies).  I'm so excited to sit down with Jimmy Secretan, VP of Ads and Premium Services of Brave, and talk about all things Brave, from the Browser to the other products to the way Brave takes privacy on the internet to a whole new level, while also empowering content creators and advertisers who depend on ads for income and to promote their businesses.

00:00:15 Introduction
00:00:44 Introducing Jimmy Secretan
00:01:10 How Brave started
00:09:33 Brave and internet advertising
00:21:13 Local machine learning
00:32:07 What is BAT (Brave Attention Tokens) 
00:42:59 Cross-platform data synchronization 
00:44:28 Chromium
00:50:22 Public and Private key encryption and authentication
00:54:27 Brave for Content Creators
00:59:03 Where is Brave now and what is its trajectory
01:05:40 Opportunities in Brave
01:13:10 Farewells


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