Cofounder @espressosys ☕️ Prior Lives @slow @chain @goldmansachs ⛓️ I want to @makeopenmoney
San Francisco, CA
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So many crypto products today are like if you tried to make ChatGPT in 1994
You needed all the information in the world to be digitized before the most powerful products could work
You need all the assets in the world to be tokenized before the most powerful products can work
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My mom just sent me a screenshot of her first bitcoin buy order:
1 BTC for $654.26 on Dec 31 2013
She has never sold
😭♥️😭♥️
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You don’t learn crypto / Web3 from a curriculum
You learn it by installing Metamask, buying some ETH, moving some to a Ledger, paying fees, making a trade on Uniswap, minting an NFT, joining a discord, asking questions on Twitter, etc.
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Friendly reminder to respect people's time⌚️
🗒️ Send an agenda
🧠 Never ask to pick your brain, be specific
✉️ If you can do it by email don't book a call
📞 If you can do it by phone don't book a meeting
❌ No intros without double opt-in
🙉 You're not entitled to a reply
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If you have information or suspicion about a bigger fraud than someone misappropriating $8 billion+ of customer funds and you are not sharing that, but rather cryptically tweeting for engagement, then you are as morally bankrupt as those you purport to criticize.
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We are absolutely not hearing enough about the arrest of Tornado Cash dev Alexey Pertsev.
I have been following this as closely as anyone and am still totally confused as to the status of charges against him. This is scary.
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Every time a VC says
- drop out of school
- study math / CS
- start your own company
- take funding
know that they are talking their own book.
It may be sincere. It may be sound advice. But one thing that studying history taught this liberal arts major is to always examine bias.
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In the 8 years I have owned bitcoin, I have never, ever felt like I owned enough. But never more so than today.
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Still thinking about the 18 year old who came up to me at an ETH Denver party and told me that "the vibe is just really old in here"
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Silicon Valley:
"Don't bother studying humanities. Just spend your time on STEM and I will later bestow on you the gifts of philosophy, ethics, and history via my Twitter thought leadership and my Medium posts."
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Prediction: within the next 5 years, we will be talking about applications of zero-knowledge protocols the way we talk today about applications of blockchain protocols.
The potential unlocked by the breakthroughs of the last few years is going to take the mainstream by storm.
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A group of VCs, all with offices within 10 blocks of each other, sitting elbow to elbow around a dinner table in the same room together.
“The future of work is remote.”
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Summer of 2011 I was interning at Goldman Sachs. I was stressed to the max & had just had a check-in with Human Capital Management (what they call HR).
They asked me how I was doing. I replied honestly and said I was tired.
They said "Well, you can sleep when you're dead."
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I almost never ever do this. And this is not advice. Do your own research. I don't know or understand your financial situation. Don't put it what you can't afford to lose.
But I could honestly see bitcoin 10x-ing this year.
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Ethereum is just one Joe Rogan interview away from a bull run to end all bull runs
All we need is for @ethereumJoseph to get on the show
Amplify this, let's make it happen
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Don’t worry about finding your passion early. My passion hadn’t even been invented yet when I was 18.
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Controversial take: Not your keys not your crypto is no longer sage advice for those getting into crypto.
Should be: When possible, custody with one of the top 5 exchanges and if your asset isn't supported, ask yourself if you really understand why you hold it.
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Before he walked away he introduced himself. It was Mark Pincus, presumably there to talk to bankers about IPOing Zynga.
Thanks for the advice @markpinc. Glad I listened.
Fin.
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All these people calling for recession so they can buy a house seem to misunderstand how this works.
Sure, the price of that house you have your eye on might drop by 40%, but so will your net worth. And that job that's paying your salary? They've told you to clean out your desk.
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There is a race happening for who will become the first full-service bitcoin bank.
Avanti, BlockFi, Circle, Coinbase, Fidelity, PayPal, River, Square, Visa...
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Let me tell you about The Interval - my favorite bar / coffee shop / library in SF
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Hire women.
Sponsor women.
Promote women.
Involve women.
Pay women.
Support women.
Ask women.
Fund women.
Believe women.
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you ever look back on yourself from like two years ago and think "wow I had no idea what was going on"
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The fact that anyone can just see this is wild
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 100,000,000 #USDC (100,000,000 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
whale-alert.io/transaction/e…
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No post-apolocalyptic science fiction ever prepared me for the incredible stock market rally that would accompany the end times.
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Let me be clear: If you have information or suspicion about a bigger fraud than someone misappropriating $8 billion+ of customer funds & you are not sharing it, but cryptically tweeting for engagement, then you are as morally bankrupt as those you purport to criticize.
If you think FTX is the worst/biggest fraud in crypto, I have bad news for you. Good luck to the players remaining at the table.
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I want to start a podcast called The Dinner Party in which I bring in 5-10 top people in a given field, serve them wine and dinner seated at a big table with microphones in front of them and just hit record.
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“Put simply, without cryptocurrency, a cashless society is a surveillance society–it enables central control over all aspects of our financial lives.”
Cryptocurrency as a tool of freedom.
fastcompany.com/90323550/dig…
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✨Some news✨
It's time to build!!! I am transitioning back to building in the world of crypto full-time & I am so excited!
I am also delighted to get to continue to support the incredible team at Slow as a Venture Partner.
I can't wait to share more about what I'm up to soon.
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WE ARE DEMOCRATIZING FINANCE
Please attend my exclusive closed-tent Burning Man pre-camp to discuss. Invite only. Do not forward. Invite referrals only considered if sent by select Silicon Valley angels / VCs.
Entry price $12,500 (does not include transport or BM ticket)
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Can confirm that crypto is now rejected in Silicon Valley culture
Do you realize how bad you need to have screwed up as an industry to be scorned by this group of hyper capitalist sociopaths???
Dating in San Francisco is wild because people are generally cool when you tell them you’re trans but when you say you work in crypto, they act like you just placed a jar with a tiny preserved hand on the table
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One of the great things about working in an emerging industry where no one knows what’s going on is you get to really see people’s raw reasoning skills.
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I really miss college libraries as work spaces. A place to go late into the evening where you’d be surrounded by other people on the grind and tons of resources and also have access to a 24/7 cafe.
Are there any co-working spaces that offer this or gear themselves toward it?
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I’m just gonna say it
I think Pump Fun is a real dregs-of-society business
Predatory, bringing out the worst of human nature
I like a little degen fun
And I am all for democratization of investing and trading
But this ain’t it
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Maduro is taking Venezuela's gold reserves & selling them off in a move deemed illegal by his own legislators.
If those reserves were in bitcoin, a multisig arrangement would mean that a single despot could never embezzle from his own country.
Long bitcoin, short the dictators.
"The operation took place while central bank head Calixto Ortega was abroad on a trip." reut.rs/2ECEqx6 by @Coropo + @mayearmas
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When the bill comes due, there are two ways out.
A) Hurt the poor with inflation.
B) Hurt the rich with taxation.
The Fed just made Option A the official policy.
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Crypto keynote 101:
1. How many of you know what bitcoin is?
2. Satoshi
3. Cram an overview of distributed systems & public key crypto into 2 min
4. “It’s like the early days of the internet”
5. Venezuela
6. “It’s changing everything from health care records to identity”
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“What can we do to get more women in tech??”
In the immortal words of @karaswisher, “you literally just fucking hire them.”
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Just so you all know when I say "Lambo" I specifically mean I aspire to get the Lambo Urus mom mobile SUV in Nero Noctis matte black that I will drive around in yoga pants, a sweatshirt, and Uggs
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Some news! 🚀
I'm thrilled to share that today is my first day as the newest member of the investment team at @slow!
medium.com/@jillcarlson/join…
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My whole feed has become engagement farmers - not just for Espresso but for Succinct, Caldera, Aptos, Monad, Allora, so many others.
No disrespect
But how do I teleport my feed back out of here to see my friends again and find signal 😅
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So my mom just turns to me: “So I’ve got this bitcoin cash stuff in my account now. Can you show me how to buy more bitcoin with it? I think that’s the thing to do...”
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Sometimes I go to buy my $16 salad and my $8 black coffee and I wonder if this is what inflation looks like.
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WHY ARE WE BAILING OUT CRUISE LINES
THESE ARE NOT SYSTEMICALLY IMPORTANT
NEITHER ARE AIRLINES
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Good day to drop news
Oh my sweet summer child, may you never know the biting chill of a bear market
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Fitness clubs and gyms should open branches in major airports. I would be way more inclined to arrive early if I could sneak in a workout and shower before my flight...
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Every day I face the same question:
Stay up & take advantage of my brain's most functional & creative hours (9pm - 3am)
*or*
Go to bed & be a functional human being the following day
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Crypto UX is entirely and utterly broken.
If you are actually using it (not via a third party) it is borderline unusable. Even for those of us who have been doing it for the better part of a decade.
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Eating dinner next to HBS Chad explaining “what private equity is” to his Hinge date and he just keeps talking about how you “raise a ton of money from LPs” while she keeps asking “so where does the INVESTing part come in?”
Guess it’s about the 2, not the 20 🤦🏼♀️
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Facebook failed to think what could happen if state actors became some of its primary users.
The cryptocurrency world should reflect on the same question.
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Listen I’ve gotten blue pilled into accepting that the United States can money-print its way out of anything but what I don’t understand then is why tf am I still paying taxes
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Sure bitcoin is at $19,000 but the real story this week is Eth2
(Sorry but it is.)
Congrats Ethereum! 🥳
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I’m not interested in recreating Wall Street’s systems around a new asset class.
I’m interested in creating a new system around Wall Street’s asset classes.
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I just published my thoughts on the big problems awaiting token projects. None of them today are long convexity (or as the cool kids like to say, antifragile).
medium.com/@jillcarlson/shor…
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Entire feed of tech bros like
“I know everyone is hating on the Cybertruck, but you’ve got to respect Elon for pushing the boundaries and building something that looks like the future.
No idea what I’ll use it for but just put down my $100 deposit!”
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