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notorious blockchain enjoyer | prev galaxy digital, brookings, schwarzman, columbia | views are my own, obviously

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@howdymerry
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2 years
who are these people in my LinkedIn dm’s offering me $650/hour to consult on digital assets for them lmfaooo I know nothing
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friend built an app on @Blast_L2 that earned $380k in revenue over three weeks, no token just pure fees baby meanwhile my enterprise saas friends are grinding hard to break $100k ARR off the most boring, dry tech imaginable study having fun
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5 months
i work on the data availability layer so my sons can work on the execution layer so their children can work on the application layer
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2 months
few weeks ago, was introduced to someone i instinctively trusted just given soft bias from our shared background—ivy league, software, tradfi etc pitches me his company, tells me they closed a tier 1 vc lead for a $250m fdv series a raise i tell him his project is solving a
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this is the greatest piece of literature that ive read from a crypto vc because it is so brutally honest the majority of users in crypto are industrial farms of bots but galxe has the largest market share of industrial bot farms so thus bullish and we invest lmaooo
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5 months
car I was in yesterday flipped, was thrown about five feet onto pavement all of my limbs still work, brace around my neck, iv and antibiotics dripping into my arm, feeling pretty lucky all things considered
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@howdymerry
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2 years
last night this guy told me he was a trader so I asked him who he betrayed and he didn’t laugh wtf
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2 years
life update y’all left @galaxyhq backpacked, made new frens, and touched grass for a few weeks joined @CelestiaOrg :)
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@howdymerry
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9 months
bestie got married last weekend and won @ethglobal this weekend we’re so fucking back 🚀🚀🚀
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5 months
you're a team that raised at a ridiculous valuation during the bull market and ever since then its been downhill floundering, zero pmf, no idea what direction to go in or what to build mary introduces you to a great team that's building in the open so y'all can work together
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2 months
i love gossip in this industry because it’s never sex scandals or whatever it’s someone taking you into a smoke filled back room to tell you who will drop a research paper next week and what performance numbers they hit or whose blockchain isn’t even close to working yet
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@howdymerry
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9 months
imagine spending your twenties working on rollups lmao
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@howdymerry
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6 months
how i picked my badkid - black hair bc asian - smile bc not unhinged - graph paper bc asian and math - floor price bc asian hope this was a helpful guide to picking a badkid 😉 follow me for more expert tips 🤓
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6 months
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2 months
only in crypto is asking if the founder has rizz a legitimate question in due diligence
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@howdymerry
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4 months
girl who has near death experience and renewed appreciation of life ✌️
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@howdymerry
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2 months
yea im crypto native (constantly online and slightly depressed)
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2 months
at the end of the day what women really want, and i know a lot of you folks struggle with talking to women so im genuinely just happy to help here, what women really want is reliable, cheap, secure, high throughput blockspace and maybe some light kissy kisses on the forehead
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other girls have expensive habits like buying purses, i buy overpriced seed rounds because he’s my friend i guess ill sign the doc but kill me pls
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2 months
the longer i am in crypto the more bitcoin pilled i get
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3 months
@deedydas i was at a dinner party with some nvidia employees and one of them had recently bought a Picasso just because they could
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4 months
out of character serious post but i think it’s unfortunate how insider-y, how iykyk this entire industry is. how vibes based—eg guy who perpetually ghosts someone i professionally associate with gets back to me in a second just based on vibes alone—it’s such a reflection of how
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2 months
business school is for sure a scam, friends graduating this year are basically just doing the same jobs they left pre mba but now they’re six figures in debt
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2 months
> be me > be in high school > year is 2012 > dad loses job, have to move and change schools > struggle to fit in > no friends > sadandlonely.png > spend lunch breaks doing math and surfing internet > find 4chan > learn about bitcoin > learn about rule34 lol > ??? > now here
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@howdymerry How did you even get into this industry
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6 months
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1 year
@partiful please sell my data, im begging you
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@howdymerry
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17 days
sometimes you meet a guy, he makes you laugh, you like his takes, maybe you don’t even know his last name but one thing leads to another and you’re aping a check into his seed round
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@howdymerry
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1 year
holy shit when the doctor says it’s his SIXTH airbnb carbon monoxide poisoning in the past month watch the fuck out in cdmx
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11 days
i want you to make me feel something if you want me to buy your token idgaf if you built something with smooth ux expressivity on chain order books price discovery better trading experience yadda yadda ya i want you to make me FEEL something then ill buy your token
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24 days
every call ive gotten on this past month has started with me asking dude have you read the ethena roadmap yet two core pillars: i) recognize reality for reality ii) believe in something the best projects don’t attempt to force behaviors on market participants, they simply
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11 months
hosting an AI happy hour with @BainCapVC in NYC next Tuesday! we’re bringing together a crowd of engineers, researchers, and founders to cross pollinate ideas across fields hoping to turn this into a monthly hackathon/reading group series. dm or comment if you’d like the invite
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2 months
when i advise pre seed founders i tell them just start hitting the gym and lifting you should be able to bench at least 225lb by public testnet, i don’t make the rules here sorry but you’ll thank me later
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3 months
men will make millions off of their mev bot and still have this as their sleep setup
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2 months
the best funds in crypto, both liquid and venture, stay under $50m AUM (better under $30m) the alpha stops when you saturate opportunities stay lean, stay hungry, stay high conviction
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1 year
goddam i love being friends with people whose reactions to being let go is fuck yea now i can go build a company
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3 months
what makes me laugh about crypto is that a lot of folks walk around with a massive chip in their shoulder, bragging about who they know and what party they’ve been invited to, thinking it gets them ever more closer to the inside circle there is no one inside circle, you foster
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2 months
honestly your L1 doesn’t hit escape velocity until you have the girlies making your blockchain their personality study solana and berachain
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2 months
new favorite crypto due diligence question just dropped does your product require your users to have long attention spans and / or memories
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3 months
about to experience the london defi scene, i assume it’s just like new york but they start every sentence with oy cunt and end with innit bruv
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2 months
it literally kills me when projects announce infra partnerships like it’s a big deal that blockchain and that bridge will be abstracted away, it’s all a commodity the only thing that can’t be abstracted away is the simple delight your actual product simply delivers to users
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27 days
zk boys fighting bitcoin boys fighting cosmos boys fighting solana boys fighting sad mary :(
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9 months
this weekend, @0xnavage @hua_annie oscar and I built token-gated privileges for certified victims of MEV attacks (and won @ETHGlobal nyc!)
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3 months
@nntaleb entire industries, the way governing bodies operate and work are built entirely on his ideas. few have such an enormous impact
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3 months
i miss when nosleep used to do these threads so starting these myself 🧵 a selection of things i've read / watched / listened to this past week
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8 months
the m stands for mainnet ty for dinner boss @musalbas
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1 year
what the fuck is wrong with VCs stop investing in sociopathic college kids and start investing in genuine late 20s/early 30s founders with revenue generating businesses
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7 months
one click deploy with a 100x less fees 🤌
@KAndrewHuang
Andrew Huang ⚡️⛓️
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Introducing @CelestiaOrg support on @conduitxyz , starting with OP Stack 🟣 Rollups can now reduce transaction fees by >100x by using Celestia’s modular DA, making it viable for anyone to deploy an Ethereum L2.
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5 months
wait so you’re not a cute asian girl in singapore you’re just some british dude in london
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3 months
getting my girlfriends to go to crypto parties with me “uhh so the ethereum blockchain had an upgrade that introduced this thing called blobs and uhh its called the dencun upgrade so yea that’s what the party is about”
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2 months
i don’t know why i like blockchains this much but goddam i really like blockchains
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4 months
i mfking thrive off of two hours of sleep then a billion dollar asset manager testing my knowledge of proposer builder separation right at 8am
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4 months
liquid staking on berachain should just be called baking
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the literal sexual tension between this dying bull / weird sideways market and 2021 teams that saw this as their window for a liquidity event but haven’t shot off with a token yet
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10 months
here’s the deal—we build a proving grounds for next generation companies via broad exposure to new ideas, deep discussions with researchers, and the opportunity to meet highly technical potential cofounders who have spent years working in finance and tech. AI and crypto are tools
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6 months
*gestures vigorously*
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2 months
i have decided to stop mid curving things and lock the fuck in instead, projects i faded pre seed and seed are getting max bidded in private markets right now study stop asking questions
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is every ai x crypto project an ezkl wrapper
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4 months
megaeth is the best name for a project ever. periodt.
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25 days
a wise man once told me to only invest in a category creator and nothing else matters because the narrative wave will hit i realized the same is true of people in crypto—not a whole lot of people have novel ideas, most folks are simply mimetically repeating something they heard
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23 days
who else shares the core childhood memory of thinking the fbi would come knocking because you downloaded something from limewire
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28 days
five days until i fully lock into the next era of my life so scribbling a reflection each day sometimes i find myself in non crypto cabal adjacent circles and those experiences stick with me because it helps me better understand how the world *actually* works instead of my smol
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1 year
looking for an nyc office space for a couple of crypto companies to cowork from so pls lmk if you have any leads/know anyone that might idk anything about commercial real estate lmao
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ayo ur girl just had dinner with european politicians!!! old world 🤝 scrappy kid from texas
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9 months
there comes a time in every young man’s life where he must forge his rite of passage in this world (build a dex)
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27 days
dm me your most autistic unhinged unfiltered thoughts, just finished a five page essay on how nyc dating is analogous to derivative markets
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6 months
*months* of work. MONTHS. long conversations with the @OffchainLabs . long conversations internally. multiple iterations. @dferrersan 10000x dev. multiple early adopters. teams looking to go live on the integration. ten minutes to fork? didn't even ctrl + f replace celestia so
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Really happy that part of my hard work at @CelestiaOrg made it to @eigen_da 's upcoming Nitro integration! Cool thing is that my name is also mentioned in "their" work 😁
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2 years
@0xfoobar @nbashaw Didn’t satoshi come out with his white paper in 2008 😂
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10 months
@dferrersan teaching a packed house of hackers how to build rollups on @CelestiaOrg at korea blockchain week
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hosting a developer happy hour with @galaxyhq tomorrow night in nyc, dm for invite :) truly stacked line up of lightning talks from teams building in zkml, defi, and consumer
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3 months
me sliding into dms heyyy i really like your blockchain :D
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2 months
if you can’t handle me at my integrated you don’t deserve me at my interwoven
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8 months
hoboken is a no fraud proofs optimistic rollup that settles to manhattan
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the more i think about chain abstraction the more messed up it is because at the end of the day what you’re really doing is telling a little boy his consensus mechanism, his execution client, his proving scheme, his design of trust assumptions, it all doesn’t matter and its
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remember last eth denver when they hosted walletcon and sixty wallet teams presented my friend who was building a wallet said that was the day that made him pivot back to b2b saas
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OH: look, we tried the two token model and it didn't work. so now we're trying the three token model and if that blows up we're gonna try a four token model
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8 months
excited to share that i’ll be spending tonight sleeping on the couch of yet another eastern european airport
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1 year
honestly if you haven’t slept on a couch in an airport in serbia don’t even talk to me you just haven’t lived yet
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2 years
shrkeli answering patiently and thoughtfully to sia was the last square on my 2022 bingo card
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@parkerhendo cursed project management
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2 months
i have met too many women in web3 online that turned out to be a male in web2 irl
@GwartyGwart
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We need more women in web3. You can be a male in web2 but a woman in web3. That’s kind of the point in fact, to reinvent yourself in a digitally native way. I myself am a woman in web3 but a male in web2.
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2 years
to anyone building a hedge fund or venture fund (especially crypto focused), talk to @brextonpham before you get stuck with signature/silvergate bank!!! he's disrupting an antiquated industry and building @seriesfinancial , you won't regret the call
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i read this tweet that said every subculture of crypto thinks they’re the center of crypto what i find fascinating is that it’s true of every small tech movement—the network state people, the rationalists, longevity, biotech, ai alignment, transhumanists, defense tech etc they
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8 months
what’s it gonna take to get the girlies into data availability (help it’s all dudes here)
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hey ma i met a man online in the cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry and we’re gonna meet in person and travel to a foreign country together and he’s gonna introduce me to his friends who are also in the cryptocurrencies and blockchain industry ^ my moms greatest fear
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9 months
@Delphi_Digital research endgame is so hype -- gated access to quality content and conversation fuck yes
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1 year
running into crypto friends at the openai hackathon
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3 months
the sexual tension between crypto projects and just launching on an aws instance
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2 years
new season new me lfg 🔥 @AstroGirls_NFT
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3 months
a new bitcoin rollup dropping every day up until the halving like it’s an advent calendar
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2 months
don’t know who needs to hear this but *SHE WILL NOT TOUCH YOU* if you’re using a centralized sequencer women look for trust minimization when dating
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11 months
thank you so much everyone for coming to furrycon it was so lovely seeing everyone
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4 months
went to dinner last night with nvidia homie and he paid for dinner saying dont worry about it’s just half a share
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2 years
now on urbit, this is so sick, same feeling as when i first started fucking around with bitcoin in high school. best christmas ever.
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3 months
making a lot of friends already
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2 years
are you in crypto? he asked as I wore my 1inch bucket hat, balancer ray bans, and aave tote bag
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4 months
on this day, this blessed day eth core devs shipped the long awaited dencun upgrade and ansem put a dog with a hat on the vegas sphere dichotomy of man
@DegenerateNews
DEGEN NEWS
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BREAKING: CAMPAIGN TO PUT @solana MEMECOIN $WIF ( @dogwifcoin ) ON THE VEGAS SPHERE HAS RAISED ITS TARGET TOTAL AMOUNT
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auctions are the most egalitarian and efficient transfer of value, auctions are both modern and timeless from ancient athenian agoras to sothebys in new york, auctions are versatile and malleable across fields and market type, auctions brought justice and peace into my life amen
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1 year
it’s my first bear market working full time in the space and I’m ngl its kind of brutal and gut wrenching when your friends log off tg for the last time. some folks got fired or let go or their company blew up or their 21 year old ceo built a dysfunctional team culture lol.
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@howdymerry
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2 years
it’s awesome seeing which social daos see ‘product market fit’ and community stickiness. @dropout_dao and @goldendaoxyz have seen so much growth so fast. community leads matter most imo.
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3 months
there is no more brutal form of rejection than asking about someone's bridge design works and getting left on read
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2 years
one night you’re dining with billionaires, the next day you’re scrambling up the hillside of a colombian jungle with no pants on. c’est la vie.
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the american dream now starts with a phantom wallet
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