Building @use_corn

Joined November 2009
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People in our space took real risk early. Built real capital. And the products that are supposed to serve and benefit them are all limited by traditional banking infrastructure that wasn't built for them. I’m one of those people. Premium fiat-backed cards can't enable global access because their rails won't let them. Crypto cards have the rails but not the access. We built on different rails so we could deliver both. Premium access, globally, for the people the traditional system was never designed to serve.
Mar 19
The access you've been missing. Luxe · Dining · Travel · Events usecorn.com
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Everyone’s building AI agents to automate the digital world. The actual opportunity is what AI can’t touch: a table, a room, an allocation, a seat. Presence is the new scarcity.
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Apr 24
CORN _ ACCESS MIAMI _ The second collection is live. Do Consensus in style. May 5-7. Want a private yacht for you and your friends? Handled. Want a private Louis tasting experience at one of Miami's hottest restaurants? Done. Want a VIP table at E11even on the right night? Done.
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Apr 20
The IRL connection economy is a $400B market. And companies are racing to own it. In the last 6 months, $800M in capital was deployed on "IRL" bets. @Tinder invested $60M into a new Events feature for connecting matches in-person. They're pivoting to IRL and offering experiences such as speakeasies, raves, and pottery classes. @222place: raised a $10.1M Series A to curate blind social experiences for Gen Z. Personality-matched groups sent to hyperlocal nightlife events. @JagermeisterUSA launched BestNightsVC - the only venture fund in the world dedicated solely to nightlife and IRL connection. 16 portfolio companies across 4 continents. @timeleft: dinner with 5 strangers, every Wednesday. €18M ARR. 6,500 dinners/week across 200 cities. Dion: members-only social app where the first move is buying someone a real drink, redeemed IRL. 10K members, 30K on the waitlist founded by @revekkapal. Pie: Bonobos founder @dunn built an IRL friendship app. $24M raised. 130K MAU. @weroad_official: group trips for 20-30 year olds who don't know each other beforehand. $150M valuation. Matchbox: is an algorithm-powered matching platform for IRL events and has powered over 100,000 connections. founded by @liamjmcgregor (prev @MarriagePact) New dating apps like Known @Celesteamadon, Cerca @MylesCerca, and Ditto @AllenWangzian are aiming to improve connection amongst young people. Billion-dollar companies are paying $$$ for community and events leads: - @AnthropicAI: Marketing Events Manager ($255k) - @tryramp: Community Manager ($223k) - @tryramp: Events & Culture Manager ($181k) - @duolingo: Senior Community Manager ($193k) - @NotionHQ: Community Programs Lead Everyone knows the more time we spend online, the more valuable real-life connection becomes. The question isn't whether IRL wins. It's who facilitates it best.
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Every card company optimizes for basis points or cash back. We built Corn to optimize for what your money should actually unlock. Miami is the first proof. The card comes next.
Apr 16
Access Miami is live. The doors are open. E11even VIP tables for race week. Exotic cars delivered to your hotel. Skip every line on your way to MIA. Waitlist members are already inside. More to come.
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what life was like before claude
He shot a realistic Jeep commercial using a toy car and an iPhone 🤳
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Miami takeover Can't wait for you guys to taste the access we put together
Apr 15
A taste of curated access around F1 Miami Consensus. First look dropping soon. Waitlist members get in first.
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Apr 14
A premium global membership card with real access behind it. Purpose-built for people traditional banking continues to underserve.
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Consensus Miami next month is going to be the biggest North American conference of the year. @use_corn is going to make sure anyone going has access to the tables, the rooms, and the events that actually matter.
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IRL exclusive events. That's the tweet
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Apr 2
The right table. The right night. Every time. Request your invite - usecorn.com
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In a world dominated by AI, products focused on IRL offerings and human experiences are going to have big break outs
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Opportunity prime for the taking as legacy looses touch with what today’s users actually give a shit about We want access to what money can’t buy, not a outdated catalog
AMEX PLATINUM IS LOSING MORE PERKS More changes are coming to the Amex Platinum, and some of the long-time benefits are getting cut. What is changing - Effective 5/7, Uber VIP is gone. - Replaced with Signature Support for Amex, which is basically 24/7 phone access to customer service - Effective 6/10, Events with Amex is being removed - Effective 6/30, the Saks credit is ending - A new replacement credit will be announced later - Effective 7/8, Centurion Lounge guest rules get tighter - Guests must be on the same flight as the cardholder - On layovers, card members must arrive within 5 hours of the connecting flight - Same day round trips do NOT count as connecting flights TLDR: - Use your Saks credit before it disappears - Expect Amex to replace old perks with more restrictive or less useful ones Amex keeps changing the Platinum... thoughts?
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Big week The road to launch begins
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Mar 27
Reserved before it's released. Request your invite - usecorn.com
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New York on fire this week. It’s clear there is a huge gap in the HNW category for premium value that’s not the same old irrelevant perks “Give me real access to what money can’t buy & make sure the card works every time”
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Mar 24
Limited release premium spirits. No waitlist. No markup. Request your invite - usecorn.com
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Lots of ppl are missing the forest through the trees. Building on stablecoin rails vs traditional banking is literally the ultimate unlock Everyday users won’t know or care that it’s a stablecoin wallet under the covers It just needs to be a better product
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In January I shared where we were, what building the Corn network taught us, where real demand lives, and why stablecoins have become impossible to ignore. What I didn't say is what we were already building. We've been heads down since. Not talking about it. Not teasing it. Building it. Quietly. I'm not sure how many more signs the industry needs. Every major fintech and payments company has or is in the process of adopting and integrating stablecoin rails. Stablecoins have graduated from experimentation to infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of people. That's not a narrative. That's a foundation worth building on. For Corn to enter its next chapter, it has to close the door on the one before it. In order to dedicate the entirety of our focus and resources on what's next, we will be sunsetting the network over the coming months. We are proud of the work we did and who we built alongside, but infrastructure without sustained organic demand is a lesson, not a product. What’s next for Corn isn't an evolution of what came before. It's a different product, for a different purpose, on a different set of rails. Something uniquely re-imagined. This is the most convicted I've been over the last 10 years building in the space. For anyone who's been here through the experimentation, the uncertainty, and the resets, I don't take that lightly. Tomorrow you'll see what your conviction and belief helped us to build. The future of Corn starts tomorrow.
Mar 18
Something's coming...
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Mar 17
What? Corn is evolving!
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