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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

I was the first VC to try to invest in SBF, 4 years ago, well before FTX had even launched. I shared some of my story with CNBC, but there is more - a lot more. Here's what I learned, and why I passed on investing based on suspicion of deception and reckless risk-taking.

CNBC

@CNBC

1 year

Cryptocurrency investor says he saw 'serious red flags' with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

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1 year

But first, how do I know I was one of the first VCs to talk to Sam? Because Sam tweeted about his “horror story” experience with me, the investor who delved too deep and asked too many questions. That’s me below, “G.” Hi!

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4 years

2) I'll start with two very different horror stories. I'm not going to name names, but you know who you are. The first story is the longer one. There was a VC; call them G. We were in talks with G for a while about investing into Alameda. In many ways the talks were good!

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In my next tweets, I’ll talk more about what I learned from my up-close encounter with a future super villain. And what I think VCs, the crypto community, and regulators (!) can do better to stop these kind of catastrophes from bad actors in the future.

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This is a big conflict of interest: in 2018, Sam tried to use our investment in Alameda to start FTX, an entity that we neither knew of nor owned It's also ironic! Since, last week, Sam was caught doing the opposite: siphoning $10B+ from FTX to bail out Alameda, his private firm

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Including me. I sat on this story for years because I was afraid of Sam's retribution. Which I think was a reasonable fear. I mean, read his original tweets about me! They're very mean. Still, my 'horror story' with Sam is small potatoes vs the millions of lives he’s hurt today.

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1. A few months before we met Sam, Alameda lost north of $10M - a huge amount of their assets - on “trade errors.” We could never figure out if this was due to fraud, incompetence, or a well-meaning mistake.

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1 year

My heart goes out to everyone affected by this catastrophe. Crypto is a technology of freedom, but it makes it easier to do bad things as well as good. As a community, we in crypto need to do better to catch and call-out bad actors before they become supervillains.

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2. Following Sam’s $10M+ "trade errors" (known internally at Alameda as "the April fiasco"), the co-founder of Alameda - who may also have been Sam’s girlfriend? - quit, along with about half the team. They also broke up 😢

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1 year

Even back in 2018, it was clear to us that Sam took reckless risks with other people's money, and wanted to use our capital to finance his own secret projects, to our detriment It didn’t seem right to support someone like that, no matter how smart or good he was at making money

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4. We were taking awhile, so Alameda decided to also try raising debt. They bought a booth at a crypto conference and handed out fliers that advertised “HIGH RETURNS WITH NO RISK” and “no downside.” Seriously. We warned them this was nuts, they said oops, but like... what.

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1 year

Sadly, Sam found other marks for his shell game after we left the picture. Today, FTX's investors, customers, and even employees have found that their money was transferred to an "unaffiliated," privately owned, highly levered trading firm (Alameda) that they know nothing about.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

7 years

100 deals in 300 days: what I learned as the first analyst at the world's largest startup investment platform

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@alpackaP

1 year

Alameda and FTX were the same people, used the same computers, and Alameda was hemorrhaging money to pay for FTX’s startup costs… but Sam felt that it should be a separate deal, with a separate price.

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1 year

3. Alameda had received starter loans from several wealthy people in the Effective Altruism community. Sam was worried that they might not want him taking on new investment, so he proposed to keep them in-the-dark about us. We didn’t think that was honest to his backers.

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1 year

A few months into our diligence, Alameda started losing money - and fast. Alarmed, we asked what was up. Sam, nonchalantly, said that he was incubating an unnamed crypto exchange (it would become FTX), which was sucking up all his team’s attention and resources.

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@alpackaP

1 year

I’ve been a crypto VC for 9 years and seeded about a dozen of the largest crypto exchanges and trading firms. So when I heard about a hotshot trading firm called Alameda Research, I was interested.

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1 year

My first impression of Sam was that he was one of the smartest people I’d ever met. He was ambitious, had a nose for making money, and wasn’t afraid to take risks. Maybe too unafraid.

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@alpackaP

1 year

Ultimately, I decided not to invest in FTX. I continued to avoid all of Sam’s other token projects like Serum and FTT, now infamous as the collateral used to prop up his levered trading.

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@alpackaP

1 year

Ok, that’s fine, although weird that Sam didn’t disclose his new exchange idea upfront. We like backing founders with new ideas! Except Sam said that Alameda and FTX were separate. Huh?

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

2 years

Announcing our new $200M cryptofund at @hack_vc . We're crypto-native, one of the most active users of protocols, and one of the largest communities of crypto engineers. Backing crypto founders, weirdos, and hackers at the earliest stages.

Hack VC raises $200M fund to back early-stage crypto startups | TechCrunch

The investors behind virtual hack.summit(), the world's largest blockchain programmer event, have launched a $200 million crypto seed fund under the Hack

techcrunch.com

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

We came to a high-level agreement to become Alameda's first investor, and then asked to do diligence. That’s when things unraveled.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

Our new venture fund for the decentralized economy.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

We also learned some other questionable things while investigating Alameda:

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

4 years

The DeFi VC List @polychaincap (the OG) @dragonfly_cap Big VCs: @a16z @paradigm @placeholdervc @BainCapVC / @salil Smaller / seed: @paraficapital @1kxnetwork @hiFramework @PanteraCapital @coinfund_io @cmsholdings @spencernoon @Consensys @robotventures @IDEOVC @standardcrypto

Jason Choi

@mrjasonchoi

4 years

Who are the most active funds/ investors in DeFi today?

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

Excited to announce my new Rolling Fund for early stage crypto and fintech investing, in partnership with @AngelList .

Disrupting Wall Street with a Rolling Fund: An Interview with Alexander Pack

Crypto investor launches fund for ‘civilization-level disruption’

www.angellist.com

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

2 months

Paging @ionet_official

Unchained

@Unchained_pod

2 months

🤖 Imagine an Airbnb for GPUs powered by blockchain, suggests @alpackaP , who dives into how crypto can solve AI's biggest hurdles, offering a future where innovation is accessible to all through decentralized marketplaces. 🎧 Listen now:

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

@mdudas Coinbase is great no doubt, but the real tech story is the top non-fiat exchanges - Bitfinex, Bittrex, Binance - that are doing 5x this with no big VC backing, no "top startup talent", and far far away from Silicon Valley.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

Multicoin easily wins most value-add investor of 2020 award for their work on Solana. Unbelievable conviction.

Integrated Kyle e/acc

@KyleSamani

3 years

@iamDCinvestor @RyanSAdams I got on a Coinlist fundraising call with @aeyakovenko a few days after Black Thursday in March 2020 at 2am central time why? Because Coinlist can't serve americans, and Solana's russian social groups had indicated the most interest

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@alpackaP

6 years

VC: the only job where capitalist is literally in the title

Cyan Banister

@cyantist

6 years

If you are a VC and hate capitalism, I think you should just throw in the towel, or stop smoking whatever it is you are smoking. Stop hitting yourself bro!

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@alpackaP

6 years

Our new venture fund for the decentralized economy.

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@alpackaP

7 months

@paulg @TVietor08 @mattyglesias But he’s right, money is fungible. Now Iran can reduce their welfare spending by $5B and increase their military spending by $5B.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

1) We’re hiring an investment/research partner to join the @hack_vc team. Are you a giga brain researcher? Or a shadowy super coder who eats sleeps breathes crypto? Do you want to work with a team of crypto OGs to seed the best projects in the space? Then

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@alpackaP

1 month

“Once we chose our lead as Hack VC, the floodgates opened up and we got 20x oversubscribed. We had over $100 million in interest and partnered with the investors who we thought could help us the most.” We try our best to serve 🎩

Hack VC

@hack_vc

1 month

1/ We're proud to announce that we led an institutional financing round for 0G, a modular AI blockchain. 0G is positioned as the premier modular data availability solution for web3, including the next frontier of crypto-powered AI networks. [More below]

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

@_jillruth A direct Harry Potter quote:

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

7 years

What the Future Looks Like: Top Trends in 2016 Startup Investing

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it. The second best way is to finance it.”

medium.com

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 months

Pumped to lead Babylon, one of the most important developments in the history of Bitcoin.

Babylon

@babylon_chain

5 months

Alex Pack ( @alpackaP ), Managing Partner at @hack_vc

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

Overheard @rleshner say that @goat_celo are the NFT of the century.

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@alpackaP

6 years

@naval Highly recommend this book, shaped my thinking on crypto. The cost of contracting determines the structure of organizations.

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@alpackaP

3 years

0/ I recently invested in @KineProtocol , a new decentralized derivatives exchange built on Ethereum, founded by former Huobi and Matrixport execs. So what is Kine and why is it important?

Derivatives DEX Kine raises $7 million in round led by Alex Pack, Naval Ravikant

Kine Protocol has raised $6 million to launch a derivatives decentralized exchange on ethereum that touts a "CeFi-like trading experience."

www.theblock.co

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@alpackaP

3 months

At @hack_vc , we’re investing in the infrastructural revolution to take web3 mainstream. We are doubling down on this opportunity with our new fund announcement today.

Hack VC

@hack_vc

3 months

We wrote all about our new $150M Venture Fund (which brings our AUM to ~$420M) in our latest blog. Check it out for more on our vision for the fund, deep conviction in web3, and excitement to support our founders. Read more:

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@alpackaP

3 years

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CoinDesk

@CoinDesk

3 years

JUST IN: Day trading for crypto: @terra_money 's creators have launched a platform for minting synthetic assets that mirror U.S. stocks. @BradyDale reports

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

Binance is the first Sovereign Company.

Tuur Demeester

@TuurDemeester

6 years

Living on the edge. #Binance

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

4 years

Huobi is one of the largest and most important crypto companies today. I’m excited to support them as an advisor as they expand their global investing, especially into DeFi. If you’re a crypto founder looking to disrupt the global financial system, reach out! We can help.

CoinDesk

@CoinDesk

4 years

. @alpackaP , formerly of @dragonfly_cap , will Join @HuobiGlobal to help invest "tens of millions of dollars" in decentralized finance. #defi

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

We offered to invest in Fractal the week that FTX blew up. Fractal and DeFi are the solution to the CeFi messes of the past year.

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@fintechfrank

1 year

NEW: Fractal raises $6 million to reshape market structure after FTX, 3AC meltdowns

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

@RyanSAdams @panekkkk This is a $500K ARR lending business. It’s nice but not crazy, they would be lucky to raise a small Series A and get a TechCrunch article if this was a fintech startup.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 months

We at @hack_vc have been seeding AI companies for a couple years. The convergence with crypto is finally here with Ritual. We've worked with @niraj as co-investors for 6 years while he was at Polychain, thrilled to partner with him and Akhilesh to make this happen.

The Block

@TheBlock__

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Decentralized AI compute platform Ritual closes $25 million fundraise

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

Excited to welcome ⁦⁦ @hosseeb ⁩ as the third Managing Partner at ⁦ @dragonfly_cap ⁩. Haseeb previously was a partner at MetaStable and will lead our token and deep tech crypto investing.

Haseeb joins Dragonfly Capital

We are excited to announce the addition of Haseeb Qureshi as Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital to lead our token investing.

link.medium.com

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 months

Excited to be backing @rleshner a second time! @hack_vc

Superstate

@superstatefunds

6 months

1/2 We’re thrilled to announce our Series A financing, led by @DistributedG & @Coinfund_io , with Breyer Capital, @GalaxyHQ , @Arrington_Cap , @RoadCapMgmt , @CMT_Digital , @FoliusVentures , @Nascentxyz , Hack VC, @Modular_Capital , Department of XYZ, and angel investors participating.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

Kine is bringing all the benefits of centralized derivatives platforms to the DeFi world. It represents one of the biggest leaps forward in DeFi and I couldn’t be more excited to be supporting them with @naval and other great investors.

Kine Protocol (💚,💚)

@KineProtocol

3 years

Derivatives DEX Kine raises $6 million in round led by Alex Pack, Naval Ravikant

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@alpackaP

1 year

@leet888 I told many investors in 2019, and then Sam tried to blacklist me - see the CNBC article But this was years ago, Alameda was a tiny startup, FTX didn’t exist, and I had no actual proof of fraud. As for this week’s catastrophe, sadly I’d be the last person to know beforehand

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@alpackaP

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Berachain 🐻⛓⚛️

@berachain

1 year

Presenting Polaris The first OS project built from the ground up by the 🐻⛓️ team. Polaris is a general purpose blockchain framework enabling the integration of the EVM into any underlying consensus layer. Its current iteration has been optimized for the Cosmos SDK.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

@patrickc I used to buy all my college books used, in the off chance that they were marked up by a smart grad student.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

7 years

I've joined @BainCapVC to help launch its Network Investing strategy. Here's what we're doing:

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

@cyantist Really don’t think this is true. People being incited by demagogues to kill other people is the norm throughout history, not the exception.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

@naval @freerobby I suspect this is already happening and is the the real reason behind America’s massive Adderal dependency. 16M prescriptions for people ages 20-39.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

7 years

Excited to back Basecoin, a price-stable cryptocurrency building the algorithmic central bank of the future

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

The most important event in crypto since the white paper

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

7 years

Now accepting subscriptions for Fund I w/ @pt . Or maybe a drummer to round out the band.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

7 years

@paulg You say this a lot and it really is incorrect. No economist since Marx has claimed that more growth naturally leads to more inequality.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

Unveiling Imperii Partners, an investment bank purely for the crypto and decentralized economy, founded with my incredible partner @TonyScu . Ready for growth.

Bloomberg Asia

@BloombergAsia

3 years

Imperii, an investment bank that focuses on the cryptocurrency industry, is looking to hire at least a dozen people this year to handle deals

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

@_jillruth Found it in the Restricted Section

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

My take on the biggest, and most important, use case for cryptocurrencies.

Forbes

@Forbes

6 years

Blockchains are for speculation. Why that's not really a problem:

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@alpackaP

1 year

👁️👄👁️

Berachain 🐻⛓⚛️

@berachain

1 year

The Berachain team is expanding. We're looking to add 10-15 heads in person at our offices in Toronto. We'll be hiring backend, frontend, and infrastructure devs, along with designers, technical project managers and quantitative analysts. Apply at now.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

4 years

@arrington Here is the exact data on incubation periods.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

2 years

Classic Web2.0 thinking… Web3.0 is the ultimate merging of finance with software. Crypto apps sacrifice scalability and UX in the short-run to create totally novel apps that have ownership, digital property rights, and financial features natively embedded.

Aaron Levie

@levie

2 years

@dharmesh @adamdangelo @naval @LukeYoungblood @nadertheory Where I diverge from the web3 crowd, is I think it’s hard to bootstrap a network with financial rewards and then convert to utility later. I think the reason that users join really matter, and that needs to sustain whether you’re user 1 or 100 million. But I’m wrong a lot!

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

2 years

Self-custodied, fully-transparent DeFi yield farming is the future.

Affine DeFi

@AffineDeFi

2 years

Alpine Testnet is now LIVE! Sustainable DeFi yield from multiple chains, easy diversification, near-ZERO transaction costs, email based wallet (or metamask for the crypto-natives), & radical transparency–unlike the centralized “DeFi” Let's unpack 🧵

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

@alexrkonrad Dragon shouts, Jon’s been playing Skyrim between episodes and practicing his Thu’um.

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@alpackaP

3 years

@nlw Not really true. VCs as individuals are some of the largest owners of Bitcoin and Eth, and the early LPs in most of the big cryptofunds

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

This is Bitcoin.

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@_prestwich

6 years

A stablecoin that's perfect pegged to my sense of self-worth

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

4 months

Almost there. The 2 most important skills to succeeding in life, business, all social relations are: 1. Noticing when someone is trying to persuade you 2. Identifying WHY they are trying to persuade you, i.e. their incentives Then everything becomes obvious

eigenrobot

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this is fine but the best defense against the dark arts is to notice when someone is _trying_ to persuade you of something and simply refuse without justification "thats crazy bro" solves 99% of your problems here

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

@buzz The exemption appears to be for all DAOs, of which there are tens of thousands, not just companies that A16Z invested in… was this article written by a bank.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

@pythianism @cmsholdings @kyled116 I’ve been reading books about the famous HFers lately, basically if you 50% for a couple years in a row and gross a couple billion, you get your own chapter in a book. Pretty sure you, me, and most people in this thread already qualify for our own book chapters. 😉

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

2 years

@jgp_nyc @atxtransitblog The premise is not “provocative” it is flat out wrong as everyone in this thread is telling you. Rents are high because nyc is the greatest city in the world and 2B people want to live in your district dude. Build more housing.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

A new DeFi primitive for the world.

AladdinDAO (STABLE, LEVERED)

@aladdindao

3 years

We couldn’t be more thrilled and proud to introduce AladdinDAO @polychaincap @DCGco @1kxnetwork @multicoincap @cmsholdings @nascentxyz @SBF_Alameda @brian741 @defialliance @rleshner @kaiynne @hal2001 @alpackaP @ashwinrz @SharlynWu @TekinSalimi @niraj @brian741 @QwQiao

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

Brooklyn's finest cryptofund.

Ash Egan

@AshAEgan

3 years

0] Very happy and excited to announce Acrylic I, a $55M venture fund dedicated to backing the next generation of crypto founders 🎨

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

Crypto will bring about the greatest unbundling of the financial system in a century.

Haseeb ＞|＜

@hosseeb

5 years

There's no concept of chargebacks in crypto. All payments are final. It turns out, this is a really important feature of cryptocurrencies. And it has deep implications for its financial applications. I sketch out the argument my newest blog post:

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

@naval Authoritarian regimes have already figured out how to turn these digital mobs into their digital-first propaganda machines.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

9/ And very excited to be investing in @KineProtocol alongside friends @naval , @jdh , @TheSpartanGroup , @cmsholdings , @blockchaincap , @defialliance , among many others.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

@justGLew Crypto, of course.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

9 months

Reports of the crypto industry’s death are greatly exaggerated. See the regulatory latest below:

Hack VC

@hack_vc

9 months

Our GC, @dbulaevsky , wrote about the current moment in crypto law and regulation. Earlier this year at our hack.summit() conference, he asked SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce what she would do if she were a crypto founder in the U.S. 1/9

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@alpackaP

6 months

First the EAs came for crypto, and I did not speak out. Then they came for AI, and I did not speak out. (What’s next?)

nic "bankful" carter

@nic__carter

6 months

EAs are a threat to humanity; most are also deeply cynical if not simply evil. Given the grave risk they pose to human flourishing, by their own logic, we should use any means necessary to stop them.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

12 days

The @alignedlayer thesis is so obvious it (almost) writes itself

Announcing our Investment in (and Alignment with) Aligned Layer

We’re proud to announce today that Hack VC has led the Series A financing round into Aligned Layer. Aligned Layer is a protocol with an ambitious goal. They’re creating a universal proof verification...

blog.hack.vc

Fede’s intern

@fede_intern

12 days

I think @hack_vc explained even better than us why @aligned_layer is gonna be huge. It’s clear they have experience with developer communities and in writing documentation.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

4 years

@HHorsley Sure, only negative dynamic is the wealth effect of an upcoming recession and 20% unemployment

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

4 years

@mattcharris Many companies will go out of business if revenues drop 99% for several quarters due to quarantines.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can port my identity and credit rating onto a blockchain? Morpheus: No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when blockchains are ready, you won’t need an identity or credit rating.

Charlie Noyes

@_charlienoyes

5 years

If Sybil-resistant identity is fundamentally not incentive compatible, I like to think DeFi is about asking: How complete a financial system can we build w/o assuming anything about individual creditworthiness?How much is credit used as a crutch in the legacy finsystem’s design?

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@alpackaP

2 years

Syn City will be the coolest crypto metaverse experience by far when it drops, lookout for the launch soon.

Roy Liu

@roylxy

2 years

Thrilled to be able to work with GOATs & OGs from both Web 2 and Web 3 on the first ever Mafia Metaverse for the crypto generation. More to be announced! Crypto mafias join the gang here:

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

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We’ve backed 100+ crypto startups at and prior to , like cosmos, avalanche, near, sui, starkware, thegraph, maker, dydx, compound, uma, 1inch, amber group, matrixport, bybit...

Hack VC

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.

www.hack.vc

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 months

@hack_vc I also chatted with our friends @Bloomberg , @hgmiller29 , about the new fund and web3’s pivotal moment:

Hack VC Raises $150 Million for Bets on Battered Crypto Industry

The user experience is poor, he says, and there are opportunities out there

www.bloomberg.com

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

Called my Senators @SenJackyRosen and @SenCortezMasto about the crypto-killing amendment and they said this was by far the #1 issue they were getting calls about. This is working. Call your representatives today, before they vote tomorrow.

Meltem Demirors

@Melt_Dem

3 years

fellow crypto tweeps - you can quickly and easily phone your elected representatives here! it took me about 2 minutes total each time.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

@semil @CharlieZvible @tomloverro They’re looking at a 5,000x without dilution, say it’s 2,000x to be conservative... that’s $2B.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

In early stage technology investing, a 6x and $120M valuation isn't missing a winner, you just missed the seed round. If you really think something is a winner, you would buy the Series A right now.

Wangarian

@0xWangarian

3 years

6/ Now at $70m mkt cap and $120m FDV, they've shown me that winners can come from anywhere. Do I own any $COVER? No. Will I buy some now? Probably not. But I do think of it as the one that got away, and I hope I'll remember this lesson in the future.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

. @AustinRWoodward and the team are the best in the business. Honored to have seeded and participated. Use @TaxBit !

Alex Konrad

@alexrkonrad

3 years

The cryptocurrency boom means a tax headache like never before. TaxBit just raised a $100M from Paradigm and Tiger Global to help. My exclusive on Utah's largest ever Series A, a picks-and-shovels biz in the crypto gold rush, in @Forbes :

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

2) Apply for our Research / Investment partner role here:

Research Partner / Investment Partner - Hack.vc

About Hack VCHack VC is a NYC-based investment firm focused on crypto and blockchain tech. In particular, we invest at the earliest stages in crypto infrastructure and networks. Hack VC is a tight-...

apply.workable.com

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

3 years

@mdudas Williamsburg is currently the crypto capital of the world

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

3) Some background on Hack VC: we invest in early-stage crypto startups, focusing on infrastructure. We manage $300M+ We believe in fundamentals and deep research. We are in it for the tech (fr tho)

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

5 years

@danrobinson @_jillruth Unpacking dril is the most underrated category of twitter critical analysis

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

6 years

@eriktorenberg @rabois @jaltma I call this the Coinbase is Down Problem. The more desperately you need your engineers to fix your overloaded site, the less incentivized they are to come to work.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

6) We want: - A researchoor. Technical Web3 or cryptography background preferred. Open to other analytical experience like HF / equity research - A huntoor. Dive into crypto communities, build a thesis, hunt for deals - Ambitioon. We want a core team member to scale with us

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

1 year

7) If this sounds like you, apply above to be our Research/Investment Partner. We are also offering a $10K referral bonus (paid in UST) if you find us someone for the role, or help pressure your friend to join us. Slide into our DMs with ideas.

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Alexander Pack

@alpackaP

4 years

@juliankoh @beondeck Disagree about cost - at $1500 for 8 weeks @beondeck is less than a hundredth the cost of b school, and maybe more like a thousandth the cost of YC since no equity. They’re massively undercharging.

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