About

Why we're building Spread

After years in the trenches studying how the future of the internet will require new architecture and business models, we started building Spread around two core tenets.
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  1. Authentication-by-design: Spreaders are real people, and real people only.
  2. Anti-UGC (User Generated Content): Spread cuts out the worst aspects of UGC; no likes, upvotes, free-for-all comment sections, or algorithms on our platform.

Why now?

As synthetic, AI-generated content changes the internet as we know it, it’s getting increasingly difficult to perceive which interactions online warrant our attention.

The Spread vision?

The authenticated web is the future. Secure and trusted online experiences require human authentication protocols. We are at a critical inflection point that will define the future of the internet and online media. Every day that goes by makes it more clear that the world needs Spread!

Our core beliefs

We believe that human progress requires healthy and argumentative dialogue. We believe humans are genetically curious and that objective knowledge is inherently social.Our company’s DNA:
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  • We nerd out on all things ‘safety-by-design’
  • Our core design philosophy is anti-UGC (User Generated Content)
  • We truly believe that objective knowledge is inherently social. People > Algorithms
  • Authentication realigns the incentives of online media and enables new avenues of access.
  • Early Spreaders say it best: “If social media is a town square, Spread is where I go to do my homework before showing up”

Join the Spread team

Join our team of intellectually curious technologists with a vision to build the authenticated web and on a mission to enable access to the ideas that matter. We are looking to work with world class product managers and engineers that are compulsively curious and looking to build the next big thing. Interested to learn more about joining our team? Please send a note to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch.