We want to take a communal approach to compensate us for the data that we are creating and the work that we are doing for these companies and then put that compensation towards greater use for all of us in the form of workforce development, digital literacy, education, etc..

Andrew Gounardes

There's always the possibility of mischief and mayhem, especially with someone who is hellbent on retribution.

Andrew Gounardes

I like Bruce Springsteen and Pepperoni Pizza. And I wear Levi's jeans, and I put that somewhere. I write that somewhere, money is being made off of those characteristics, people are making money off of me, off of you, off of all of us simply because of who we are and our personal characteristics that are unique to us, or our personal preferences, things that we say, things that we write, things that we click ‘like’ on and we create this enormous value for these companies.

Andrew Gounardes

We had a similar understanding of what the problem is and what a potential solution could be, we had legal experts, financial experts and tech experts all working on this together, allowing us to really think about this project from a bunch of different angles and put out a product that we're very happy with.

Andrew Gounardes

We're nottrying to destroy the industry. All we're saying is you have a responsibility to properly compensate us for the use of the data that we are giving you, that you're mining off of us, that we have seen no return on, in some ways the ketchup is out of the bottle, and we’re not trying to put it all back yet, but we do think there should be fair, appropriate and equitable way to manage this data, use this data and compensate us for it fairly and properly.

Andrew Gounardes

I don't think there'll be immediate movement on it right now. But we do want to start having a conversation and we think that it's going to be a very long and public conversation, in a state like New York, which has a GDP of $2.3 trillion, we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that's being created here. So I think it's important that people understand the numbers behind that,that New Yorkers understand that they are creating this valuefor these companies and that they have seen no return on their own, on their own labor, on their own data.

Andrew Gounardes

I watched the documentary and it was eye opening to me.

Andrew Gounardes

We're really basing it on the number of people in the state of New York that are creating this data for these companies, regardless of where they are.

Andrew Gounardes

This is not meant to choke off the entire 21st century. This is meant to help regulate it.

Andrew Gounardes