When I launched my first token a couple years ago I launched in the middle of the night, spur of the moment and bought 0 tokens for myself outside of the dev wallet which I promised not to sell. The token ended up catching fire while solana nuked(-20% by the end of the night lol) so it was legit the only runner and went to $5m mc in 6 hours. My dev buy was 2 sol and the wallet hit $650k at the top, I sold 0.
Needless to say with Solana nuking that hard it ended up getting destroyed and within a week or two went back to around 100k mc. I tried to push it for 6-8 months with practically 0 momentum or support from homies so eventually I said fuck it, if nobody wants to support then I’ll just make the people who are here rich and then we will pump it.
The next day I made a trench group and price began to rise as our portfolios grew. 8 people ended up leaving that group as millionaires and countless others made high 5 figs / 6 figs from NOTHING. Once I started sharing the success stories it was funny to see all the people who ignored me completely for months start sliding into my dms wondering how to get in. From the beginning that was what motivated me the most lol.
Moral of the story…
$5.