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General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.

Ur dedication to ur craft will either payoff in the end or it won’t and you’ll still have the same end result of.. sacrificing ur time to achieve ur dreams, with the cost of losing other personal desires. So regardless of win or lose this is the reality of anything One way or another something goes for something new to come in. Wasting ur time In doubts about if ur gonna be successful in something or not is genuinely the most useless mental roadblock you can after. ESPECIALLY if you haven’t even put a full effort attempt u can only control whats within ur limits, and thats based on ur skills, determination and knowledge either u succeed or u failed & need to reevaluate, and see if it’s worth trying again. If it’s something ur really tryna get at and stay at. REGARDLESS of the results win or fail ur still gonna wake up & TRY to replicate or attempt winning results OR try to get the win. Ur attempt goal no matter what is to win / achieve so why does a few failures get in ur way of continuing The more you soak up on ur failures the more Mental doubt ur mind starts visioning and road blocking.

Why We Ship: @useKled Pokémon Go players generated 30 billion images and videos that Niantic used, and never saw a cent for it. @avipat_ built Kled so the people generating the data get rewarded. 50,000 DMs and three and a half years later, it's the largest human-powered data collection effort in history, distributing rewards on Solana.

We created the world’s best captcha. The first captcha that is: free for companies, pays you to solve it, impossible to bot, and instead of showing you images of random traffic lights, you’re shown real AI training data to validate. Data is provided exclusively by Kled, and once validated is sent directly to the leading foundation models and robotics companies to further the advancement of AGI. Introducing ufdp.ai - The Universal Fraud Detection Protocol. (Read Full Thread Below)

[ KLED x STREET ] Street Frontier II now has the right to buy up to 10.00% in Nitrility Inc., the parent company of @useKled with a current position of 5.00% in shares. Kled has committed 100% of the $KLED trading fees to the Street Frontier II SPV, which are then reinvested into Nitrility Inc. by the Street SPV. $KLED tokenholders don't have to do anything. No need to KYC, no need to lose your liquid tokens. No need to get rid of liquidity. No cutting out 98% of tokenholders. Welcome to the future. With this SAFE the equity value held by Street Frontier II comes up to USD14,000,000 based on the last raise of Nitrility Inc. Kled hereby participates in the ERC-S framework.

the kled app has been fully gamified. we’re introducing the level system. the higher your level the better tasks and pay you have access to. earn xp through achievements, daily upload streaks, converting your kled balance, and more. we’ve made the app more engaging than ever. this will be the biggest update we've ever done.

Today, we’re announcing our $5.5M Seed round to build the first human data marketplace. Backed by Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Waymo), Aglaé (Venture Fund of Bernard Arnault), K5 Global, Diplo, Parable VC, Cox Exponential (CX2), Daniel Greenberg (Founder of MSCHF), Harrison Shih (DoorDash Labs), Kent Lacob (Owner of Golden State Warriors), and more. This brings our total financing to $9 million. (Thread)

we built the largest opt in human data collection effort in history. - 3 million files uploaded daily - 200,000 data contributors in 2 weeks - data contributors earning up to $6,400 per month 12,000 structured datasets created spanning egocentric data, medical data (e.g., radiology scans), urban travel data, etc. all collected through distributed human-in-the-loop capture. (thread)

Internet capital markets are the future of Solana.

We also distributed 100 food parcels to displaced families that week 👇 Last 2 days of Ramadan left, zakat eligible, can donate below in Crypto easily. ❤️

hny all, new post up for 2025 i wrote something i wish i had when i was first starting out, hopefully some of you find it useful oldcoinbad.com/p/a-starter-g…

Once you realize what’s done is done and that nothing can be taken back, you’ll be more content with life moving forward. I just imagined a clock ticking and knowing it can’t go back and reverse there is no point in regretting anything since it’s all irreversible now Took me many years to realize looking back at things in regret isn’t gonna change my future and is only limiting me in the present. For sure I cope and moan but just to let out frustrations as a joke and have to just go on

Not sure it applies here but made me think —one of the most disastrous things avg trader does is fixate on imaginary goals “I need to hit 7 (or 8 or whatever) figs this cycle” “Yeah I’m up $800k but I really want my first 7 figure win” These goals often turn into primary drivers and cloud decision making Think about it, if you’re dying for your first $100k win, with a $40k portfolio and you’re up $80k on a coin, you remove objectivity and focus on this thing (that doesn’t even matter) You could lock in the $80k, and then be able to size more aggressively (still within valid risk structures) on future plays But instead what often happens is perspective gets skewed, you’re trading your PnL instead of the coin, and in the end not only do you fail to attain your “first 6 figure win” but you set yourself up for an emotion fueled trading cycle on tilt — instead of 3x’ing your portfolio (which you likely factored your $80k position in and told yourself you made it to 6 figs), you have a chip on your shoulder feeling like the market owes you something — it doesn’t, and it will be quick to show you this, often by reducing your portfolio even further while you spiral through despair. Similar concepts apply to overall portfolio goals, as you feel the window (of profitability within a cycle) closing, you start trading more aggressively, generally accruing losses and pushing yourself further and further from your goal, “forcing” yourself to go for Hail Mary style plays that 99/100 times won’t work out Generally speaking with how outsized the returns in this market are (shitcoins) it should be relatively difficult to blow a 7 figure portfolio up assuming you have some semblance of edge, and can remain structured / disciplined through emotions. Realistically you never “have” to risk more than $2-5k to make 100k-1m on a given coin — if you risked even $10k every time you could afford to fail 100 times in a row, before sending $1m USD to 0, as long as you’re actually decent as Jingtao said, you should be able to identify at least 1 spot that can turn the $10k risk into $1m and cover any potential losses (elite traders being able to hit say 1/25 rather than 1/100, and reduce downside loss so it isn’t 25 $10,000>0 plays in a row between “hits”) I think the problem, and why most people (myself included) blow up/have blown up, is impatience / inability to control emotions / racing against an imaginary clock — so to be clear when I say it’s “difficult to blow up” I mostly mean that in theory, in practice it’s very easy because it is extremely hard to remain disciplined Legitimately the most important things imo in this market are Control your emotions Mitigate FOMO Identify / execute on personal edge Probably in that order Happy to ramble further about any of this if anyone reads/cares, also happy to admit that this is just based on my personal experience / those in my circles, generally in trading “the best advice/insight” isn’t always the best for everyone

Lil kid goes viral on CT a day ago for making 2 bands before class Makes a live pumpfun the day after, full stack hitlers for 30k and then ends stream For my next trick, we make him cope