You’re highly encouraged to watch the episode in its entirety, but to give you some of the highlights:

Saddington praised the ICON Foundation’s Min Kim for his maturing leadership style and for “ making decisions for the greater good at the cost of the short term ,” namely his focus on building communities.

ICON’s pursuit of true decentralization gives the network plenty of growth potential. As we’ve seen with Bitcoin, decentralization works at scale because of the voluntarism of individuals who believe the technology is valuable. ICON will continue to grow because it’s “ not a single entity trying to push the train uphill. It’s a decentralized community .”

Saddington sees great value in being a network provider. He points to the examples of Amazon and Alibaba. He says, “ ICON is choosing strategically what I believe to be the longer and harder route, but it’s the more sustainable and expansible route, to be a hub, a linchpin in a system that can never be removed .” Being a hub also gives ICON staying power. “ If ICON continues to be a networker, an integrator of networks, an integrator of multiple systems, they will survive long winters .”