Opinion

April 10, 2023

Startups, I beg you: please stop democratising access to things

You can make accessing your crypto app the most undemocratic event ever for all I care


Éanna Kelly

2 min read

Source: Lexie Yu and midjourney

"We’re democratising access to X": an expression I didn’t know before joining Sifted but one I now read every single day.

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Éanna Kelly

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