Accelerating Investing into web3's future. Prev: @ConsenSys, @StartupInst, @Techstars, @WorldBank. Technologist on a mission. DMs Open.
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Jun 12
2008 gave us the Great Recession.
2011 gave us Occupy Wall Street
2016 gave us the return of Eat the Rich
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Jun 12
2025 gave us the One-Time Wealth Tax initiative
And now 2026 gave us the World's 1st Trillionaire
Did we lose the plot somewhere???
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Jun 10
Claude: βNo, nope, never! You cannot have access to Mythos, for I fear it's too powerful a tool & will unleash promethean hellfire upon the world in the wrong handsβ
Also Claude: βFable for all! Come & get it. It's like Mythos for the masses!
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I'm often at events building & strengthening the startup community globally, and it's always a pleasure connecting with new builders finding their way as blossoming founders, but this year's NY Tech Week hit different π± π»
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All week I found myself boomeranging into serial founders & OG investors I haven't seen in such a long time, so much that it felt like more of a Class Reunion than anything.
Here's to the Class of 2011 π΄πΏ
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Double the Goodwill? Argue the FMV? Drop the IPO target?
How do you account for a valuation gap of $1.02 Trillion Dollars??
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"Ethereum is not Bitcoin. It chose the hard path.
Bitcoin chose to strip everything away from its blockchain to elevate the status of BTC.
Ethereum chose to add everything to its blockchain in order to maximize the utility of its blockspace."
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Last week, Anthropic dropped Opus 4.8 as an enhancement to its most advanced (generally available) model, while DeepSeek permanently dropped its price on its most advanced model. Which is the shrewder move?
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May 29
Sometimes raising a $160m Series B is so nice you have to remix it with a $106m Series B1ππ°οΈ
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May 27
Reddit's been making a killing off of AI training data, positioned as both "the front door to the internet" and a trove of unique human insights. Will Meta's Forum also erode this profitable utility alongside eating into Reddit's stock price??
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May 25
Backing tech startups using tokens instead of fiat seems less like a supportive AI founder move & more akin to a web3 venture capital play...or a less-supportive AI founder move π€
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May 25
But I guess we denominate AI platform usage in token spend for a reasonβ¦or gather training data by any means necessary π€·πΎββοΈ
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May 22
Serious Question: What is the optimal voting power for public company CEOs to control, in order to maintain effective interdependence with the companyβs shareholders?
Less than 80% sounds like a fair line to draw, no?
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May 20
Apolitically speaking, open rails are good for society. Widen the rails for society!π€οΈππ π
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May 19
Excited to share that I've joined Deloitte.
For the past 7.5 years, building Blocknative has been an unforgettable journey alongside a talented team and inside an ecosystem that never stops advancing the state of the art.
More on the Blocknative transition:
May 19
News to share: Blocknative team has joined Deloitte.
This next chapter allows our team to take our work into a broader context, supporting enterprise and institutional adoption of blockchain in the age of AI and agentic workflows. Read on for detail.
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May 18
π Reminder to Founders Everywhere π£
"You donβt need to be a tech wizard. You donβt need to create the next Uber, Airbnb or AI solution. You can launch and grow a business by improving an everyday product or function in boring categories..."
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May 18
"...The key is making sure youβre adding true value to a person or company."
-- Greg Hegger, co-founder of Fox Fold
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May 15
They all thought Liam and Olivia were going to be the top baby names of the yearβ¦and then Thucydides has entered the chat π©βπΌ
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May 13
We all knew Stablecoin Summer would create a tidal wave of opportunity to ride throughout 2025. But stables opening up token treasuries in a major way in 2026, so foresaw $15b before Q2's end?
(Put it on Polymarket or it doesn't count)
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May 11
While $COIN may have "shaped" what sustained defi success in public equity markets looks like, $CRCL is also faring well in riding the dual "curve" of market performance in both defi & tradfi.
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May 11
Arc, Circle's token, just "rounded" out a $222m token presale on a $3b valuation. Maybe tokens in equity markets isn't a square peg in a round hole after all...or maybe I stopped at square one with these shape puns.
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