22. quant. builder. (onchain since 2017)
Joined February 2022
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May 19
being an entrepreneur a lot of times is like eating glass.
people forget how much pain you've to endure to build something meaningful.
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May 14
Fintech digitized the front end
Crypto is digitizing the assets themselves
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May 3
scientifically speaking
if you slam enough espresso/caffine to keep your heart rate at 125-150 bpm
then you’re basically biohacking zone 2 cardio
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May 2
conquer.
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May 1
moments like these remind me that the dystopian sci-fi future isn’t as far away as we think.
this gives straight sci-fi movie war vibes
May 1
A massive robot dog you can actually ride, built in China.
Imagine riding it through forests and mountains.
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Apr 28
With the Autodesk Fusion connector, designers and engineers can create and modify 3D models through conversation.
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Apr 29
here’s why its broken.
crypto vc has basically become a liquidity extraction game:
get in at a $50m fdv, launch at $2b, survive the dump, and still mark a 10x on paper even after a 75% drawdown.
over time it drains the market. Too much extraction in a zero-sum game eventually collapses the game itself.
Apr 10
The shift in the crypto fundraising landscape the past 6 months has been insane.
Crypto VCs used to have to constantly be networking/writing/podcasting/going on spaces/promoting your thesis/getting on 10 deal flow calls a week, to get into good deals...now it's literally enough to just have capital to write checks.
Deals are being pushed rather than dug out. Inbound if people know you have money is at an all-time high.
Most firms are either 1) Out of money 2) Moved to Series A and beyond or 3) Fundraising (with no success).
Deals that used to close in 2-3 weeks now close in 2-3 months.
Firms with questionable business models or copy pasta of the latest trend are getting zero primary or follow-on funding (Good news!).
There are now realistically <20 firms writing checks in pre-seed/seed.
VCs basically have the pick of any deal they want, with more time to do DD.
IMHO 25/26 are going to be historic vintages for those who stick around.
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Apr 25
for only in the absence of light that we learn to become the light.
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combined raised across this table: $613M
combined 24h revenue: $1,568
the chain is the cost center. the TGE is the product. revenue was never the point.
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Apr 24
I first visited Proto-Town ~2 years ago when it was more or less just a plot of land and some sheds. @MoMonuments showed me around and explained the vision plus the renderings for a 56-foot tall monument to Spindletop.
Admittedly, it was difficult at the time for me to comprehend the delta between the vision and the ground reality and left with more questions than answers.
But sure enough, the time-honored tradition of just doing things always compounds. Now there are fully-fledged startups building on-site. Autonomous excavators. Even local partnerships with the Lockhart High School. And of course, the Spindletop monument itself (pictured below).
It's inspiring to see it all unfold on the timeline and in-person. Can't wait to see what takes place in the next few years.
Texas is going to melt faces.
Apr 23
Some folks have been building a secret hardware city in Texas. We found it . . . corememory.com/p/the-secret-…
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Apr 24
ai is deflationary for incumbents
and expansionary for new markets
most people get this wrong:
they use ai to do the same things cheaper
that’s a race to zero
the only question that matters:
what becomes possible now that wasn’t before?
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Apr 20
I’m pretty sure the Claude API is charging me ~20x more than the $100 / $200 Max plan for the same amount of tokens.
We’ve already loaded credits into our org accounts in Console, but we can’t figure out how to pay for Teams / Claude Code Max through those existing credits, instead of spinning up a separate API‑style billing flow.
Does anyone know the right way to route Claude Max usage (or Claude Code on Max) through org‑loaded credits, or is this just not how it’s wired?
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Apr 19
This vercel thing is a fucking apocalypse
Hundreds possibly thousands of npm, pypi etc tokens not to mention tents of thousands of email, cloud provider keys etc
Like why was this not encrypted what the actual fuck
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Apr 18
We had room for 2,000 people at Startup School India.
More than 25,000 applied.
No Startup School anywhere in the world has ever had this many people apply. Not SF, not NYC, not London. India blew them all away.
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Apr 13
what we could have been, is what we got to lose.
every exceptional human i’ve met lives for potential. most people optimize to not lose.
most humans protect what they have.
the rare ones protect what they could become.
what we could’ve been is exactly what we stand to lose.
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