In the interview, this idea wasn’t talked about, but there is an idea being curated around the concept of developer backers.
You can find background material in this post relating to the following section in the OP.
Remember that aside from those Hub Tokens distributed during the initial crowd sale, all further Hub Fuel will be generated only as compensation directly to Makers (and Recognized Contributors) in exchange for valuable tasks accomplished.
The current status of the project is we are building a team (getting to know one another and building trust in one another) of people who are passionate about seeing the vision come into existence. We continue to iterate over the existing ideas and hopefully making them stronger. Your questions and feedback are greatly appreciated. This process would be so much easier if the Hub already existed 
At the same time those of us involved are strategizing the way forward and investigating the available technologies (Counterparty, Etherium, Tokenly) we can currently use with an eventual view of porting to the safe network when the features of the SAFE network are ready for it.