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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Code Story podcast episode S3 E17 features Jeff Bermant discussing how he founded Cocoon - MyDataRewards to empower users to monetize their own data instead of letting big tech companies profit from it. Bermant shares his journey from real estate to tech, driven by frustration with internet privacy and the realization that average users are not compensated for their data.
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Summary
Code Story podcast episode S3 E17 features Jeff Bermant discussing how he founded Cocoon - MyDataRewards to empower users to monetize their own data instead of letting big tech companies profit from it. Bermant shares his journey from real estate to tech, driven by frustration with internet privacy and the realization that average users are not compensated for their data.
Tags
data-privacy · podcast · startup · monetization · user-data · big-tech · entrepreneurship
Key entities
Jeff Bermant (person, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.95) · Cocoon - MyDataRewards (organization, 0.98) · Code Story (organization, 0.97) · data monetization (concept, 0.95) · internet privacy (concept, 0.9) · Lance Armstrong (person, 0.85) · Coldwell Banker (organization, 0.85) · Bob Selleck (person, 0.8) · Rye, New York (location, 0.85) · USC (organization, 0.85) · Transistor.fm (technology, 0.75) · Squadcast (technology, 0.75)
Classification
transcript · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 11 Aug 2026