0/ Been thinking about Qiao Wang (👽, 👽) and Imran Khan podcast on speculation

beauty of DePIN/POPW is that that, in theory, via speculation, you achieve novel capital formation as a result of everyone pooling resources together to achieve collective mission

podcasts.apple.com/si/podcast/why…

My favorite new crypto podcast is Good Game by Alliance team

Gj guys

It's rarely worth it to innovate on business tooling as a startup.

Incumbents lead for a reason – product, reliability, UX, integrations. Alternatives come with costs.

And if you die in 5 years, it won't be due to tools used. Channel this energy onto your own product instead.

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed.

Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

I've angel invested in 50+ companies, mostly in the crypto space and what surprised me was how bad some of the companies are in communicating with their investors. Some have zero updates after taking the money!

More recently I started receiving updates from teams that I've not…

You hear that? That’s the sound of pivoting back from AI to Crypto

If you want a busy person to act on something, make it brief.

They want to help. But you're making it too hard for them to understand exactly how.

Early stage startups must do 'things that don't scale' to get traction.

However, they won't actually scale unless process/product replaces these activities gradually.

Founders need to sense both WHEN manual labor is ready for automation and HOW TO, to preserve benefit at scale.

Zombie startups, whose initial product thesis failed to pan out, will often pivot to the in-vogue trend.

2 years ago that was Web3, now it's AI, in a couple years it'll be something else.

All these market by themselves will flourish, but it's unlikely the opportunists will win.