Be like @opensea Early Success: > founded in 2017 on the thesis of being “Amazon/eBay of NFTs” > raise $2.1Mn based off this in 2019 > be early to catch the NFT boom in 2021 > raise more funds with 3 new rounds > generate billions in monthly trading volume and earn 2.5% from it > make as much as $2.7Bn trading volume in a day in 2022 > push your valuation to be as high as $13.3Bn in 2022 > make a bank from NFT projects and NFT buyers without giving them anything back > be adamant on dropping a token and/or rewarding users in 2021-2023 > make no improvements in UX and UI because you don’t need to as you’re the only legitimate NFT marketplace out there > be involved with insider trading scandal led by one of your ex-employees who’s now in jail > have your database exploited which led to emails & identities of your users to be divulged Competitive Era: > have your feet swept from the ground with the arrival of Blur > make no improvements on UX/UI to be more trader friendly similar to Blur despite users asking for it > do nothing as Blur introduced airdrop seasons that incentivized farming NFTs via bidding, listing, and wash trades > try to defend royalties for yourself and NFT projects by objecting to lowering platform fees to 0% and royalties to 0.5% similar to Blur > find yourself eventually giving in and following Blur’s fees > see yourself lose market leadership in NFTs to Blur in the height of farming season > watch Magic Eden transition from being a Solana NFT marketplace to being a multi-chain marketplace > see some top NFT projects like Yuga Labs partnering with Magic Eden instead because you didn’t defend royalties vs. Blur > watch Blur burn NFTs to ground by farming NFTs to death and launching their token $BLUR, then their L2, Blast > watch Magic Eden do the same formula as Blur by incentivizing trading volume as they launch their token, $ME > still be adamant about launching your own token despite your major competitors doing it OS2 Era: > tease that you’ll finally drop a token, $SEA, as early as Feb 2025 > launch OS2 in 2025 to cater to multi-chain NFTs > introduce token trading (aka memecoins and such) to also be tradable in OpenSea > lower platform fees to 0.5% similar to Blur before > improve UX and UI for traders by copying Blur’s UX and UI before > introduce gamified rewards via Voyages XP > announce that 50% of $SEA supply will go to the community and the way for them to get it is to stack XP via trading > announce in Oct 2025 that $SEA TGE will be in Q1 2026 > continue farming your users for a year by having 6 waves for $SEA campaign > make an online live event on Mar 30, 2026 and excite your followers about the next phase of OpenSea > break the news that $SEA will be delayed beyond Q1 2026 even before the Mar 30 event to manage expectations > offer refund of trading fees from waves 3-6 to deal with the user frustrations but only offer waves 3-6 because these are peanuts compared to waves 1-2 Be early. Be complacent. Be stubborn. Be a copycat. Be late. Be delayed. Be disappointing. Be like OpenSea.

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Gahd damn. @wemby didn't even have to jump. He just did a spin move without jumping & caught the alley oop and dunked it. Feet on the ground. @Money23Green has a memory like an elephant though, he won't forget about this. Elephant v Giraffe. LoL.

Real talk - Beasley v Stephenson.. more entertaining than the Anthony Davis led @dallasmavs. We had the killer, Luka the don. The man bullied the Phoenix Suns, he destroyed Gobert. He not only put asses, in seats. His teams win & they made the playoffs.