Davos 2025 Experience: We're Still Early
My second time to Davos WEF.
After meeting hundreds C-level, founders, decision-makers, politicians, it’s obvious to me:
WE'RE GOING SO MUCH HIGHER.
Let's break it down.
Events were dominated by AI, sustainability, longevity, green hydrogen, Ukraine funding and Trump.
Donald Trump is considered a threat to stability.
These narratives pushed crypto to marginal interest.
Feels like the world forgot about BTC.
You could barely hear about it outside web3 pavillons.
Not much sentiment improvement amongst leaders vs the last year, either.
Even if hungry for knowledge, their prejudice made it difficult to speak to their rationale.
BTC was thought of as something not meaningful enough to be taken seriously.
Family offices still barely exposed to crypto, mentioning fractional ownership of 0.25%.
$TRUMP mentioned more than BTC, rather as a joke.
I’m surprised by how many rich people still think that Bitcoin is “ponzi with no underlying value”.
Completely ignoring facts, numbers, returns.
Boring, stupid and wrong.
It’s a shame.
On the bright side, congratulations to
@CV_Labs.
They did incredible work - top 3 best houses.
Vibrant, smiled people, open mids excited about future.
VCs are still on a lookout for valuable projects.
I’m also positively surprised by Polish Business Hub.
They hosted several sessions on tokenisation, MiCA, digital assets, memecoins (regulation-oriented).
Tokenisation taken more seriously after Blackrock's CEO Larry Fink said the future of assets is tokenised.
Best highlight: friendship with
@ChmbaMusic, Madonna’s DJ from Malawi who works with
@nilerodgers's OG funk band “CHIC”.
She’s crypto bro. Tracks SOL, memes, news, rugs, etc.
Protect her at all costs.
Great impression: former UK MP, Dr. Lisa Cameron, First Crypto Parliamentary Group Chair (
@Benjaminputley was right)
As well as HE Dr. Katrin Eggenberger.
The biggest disappointment was Trump & Musk canceling their Davos visit. All expenses 10x overpriced.
Overall, a rather big expense to be here for WEF.
S/o to amazing people met, incl. two Polish presidents,
@Scaramucci joking about my beard, Animoca Brand,
@gianinaskarlett,
@RachelConlan,
@qmbigbeat's
@QuasarMarkets,
@snow949494,
@EvanAuyang,
@pablos,
@wkaszycki,
@dfinity,
@Filecoin,
@DWFLabs,
@AlessiaBaumgar, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Turkson,
@BitGPTnetwork, Scott Wharton.
Next 6 months will change everything.
I'm pumped.
Are you?