Bryce Crawford 🐱 @bryce_meow Twitter profile

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

@asmith In my last experience interviewing around, I would have liked to have joined the early stage startups even with less salary but none of them were willing to make up for the salary difference with sufficient equity. If you’re under 20 people you need to offer more than .2%

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@arvanaghi @JeffBezos Focus on the customer, not competitors

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@bryce_meow

6 months

I'm humbled to share I've made Forbes 30 under 30! Quitting my job at Facebook to starting Meow was a major decision. I can’t believe how far we’ve come in these 2 years. Our goal at Meow is to become the leanest team in history to become worth $100b. And we’re just getting

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2 months

@brandon @meow Fired up to be back in the saddle and delivering value to our customers… Also to be able to go see Dune 2

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1 year

@arvanaghi @brianacton The best innovations occur around surface areas of disruption. When in doubt go to the bleeding edge!

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1 year

@arvanaghi Satya is one of the most underrated CEOs of this generation. Completely turned Microsoft around

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@bryce_meow

4 years

@Austen Hardware is the new software 😛

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@bryce_meow

4 years

@micsolana *was right on Coronavirus early *becomes automatic authority on all future societal developments

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

@MakerDAO and @maplefinance are going to power DeFi this decade. Both are stand apart as a bridge between the real world and crypto world. Both enable highly efficient credit facilities

Sid Powell 🥞

@syrupsid

2 years

Great thread! By delegating credit underwriting to other DeFi protocols specialised in undercollateralized lending and RWA, @MakerDAO can position itself as central bank of crypto

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1 year

@arvanaghi So many mission statements are approximations of what it takes to serve customers well Jeff Bezos strips all the BS away to get at what really matters most

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1 year

@aditishekar Investors think ghosting preserves more optionality than rejecting If they ghost and your round gets hot they can hit you with the “sorry I must’ve missed this!” and try to get an allocation If they reject a co then they lose that option

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@bryce_meow

4 years

@paulg So the answer to your question: google would likely lose very little in revenue since ad spend on branded keyword search would be replaced by competitors.

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@bryce_meow

4 years

@albertotretti I’ll go see the matrix 4 simply because they’re shootings real scenes instead of CGing the whole movie

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@bryce_meow

4 years

@paulg It’s extremely cheap to bid on ads where you are the top result and basically necessary to make bidding expensive for your would be competitors to snipe clicks

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@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi Operating at scale successfully can be boiled down to reducing the number of hops between the customer and the product builder

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@coindesk This is the kind of hard hitting crypto journalism we need

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

Pro-tip to any new founders Set up your backoffice webapp with @theappsmith * easy to build useful admin tools * support is excellent * a fraction of the cost of Retool

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi Can't control your competitors but you can control how well you service your customers

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

@packyM Not being EVM compatible represents a major headwind for any chain since developing the supporting tooling and software requires much more work EVM compatible alt-L1s can draft off Ethereum ecosystem support in contrast

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

4 years

@paulg I’m convinced that the popularity of real estate as an investment is at least partially driven by the fact that it’s the only leveraged investment the average person will ever make

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@bryce_meow

2 years

There’s 2.84B of stETH deposited in AAVE with a good amount of that probably leveraged for borrows With only 309M of ETH in the Curve ETH-stETH pool there is a serious risk of a bank run on stETH to trigger some juicy liquidations

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@APompliano The system Amazon describes is not a crypto currency. But rather a service that requires clients to compute a proof of work in order to use the service. This would disincentivize denial of service attacks, since clients need to burn 💰 to execute the attack

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

4 years

@twobitidiot The hardest thing I’ve run into is not actually working nights and weekends but deciding what to work on during that time Putting that effort into your job is the obvious one but are there better alternatives? Writing, reading, side projects and online classes come to mind

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

Brandon laid out this exact vision of his career to me almost 10 years ago. His ability to see the future and tenacity to realize it are what sets him apart from anyone else I’ve ever met. I’m proud that he’s my co-founder and best friend.

Brandon Arvanaghi 🐱

@brandon

2 years

When I graduated college, my plan was: - Start at a big company (~5,000) - Then work at a smaller one (~50) - Then join as an early employee (~8) - Then start my own Here’s why and what I learned along the way:

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2 years

Pumped to announce @JoinMeow ’s series A 🐱🚀!

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@cz_binance Trusting your crypto to binance lending means trusting their margin risk management system

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

MVP hacker setup to ship an MVP. Let’s get after it

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

Celebrate your wins

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2 months

@brandon @meow Luck surface area is all about staying in business

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

4 years

@nic__carter It’s obviously in the United States national security interest to buy all the bitcoin before Iran gets anymore 😛

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1 year

@arvanaghi @JoinMeow Building things I wish we had ourselves 12 months ago

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@bryce_meow

2 years

“Yea so you see I bought this digital shoe NFT from a move to earn project called STEPN. As long as I dance to like 20 songs tonight I pay for my table. You here for the bitcoin conference?” ^^ live look at the Miami clubs tonight

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 months

Founders think about spending money like it’s their own money Big businesses think about spending money like it’s their budget And that's how DocuSign has 30,000 employees

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

Thinking of raising money? Make sure your business model is the kind a venture capitalist loves Here are 3 business models VCs love (and why they love them)

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

@sarthakgh Chesa: my department doesn’t have enough resources, other departments have tremendous challenges, police won’t arrest criminals Other person: so you’re saying the system is broken Chesa: that’s a gross mischaracterization of what I just said

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

10 months

Joined CodeStory courtesy of @ntropy_dev this week to discuss how we’re seeing AI impact financial services at Meow

Beyond Bots - Bryce Crawford, Meow

Listen to this episode from Code Story on Spotify. Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on...

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@Austen Nice job, there’s no reason education shouldn’t be exportable and global

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@samdblond Average performers have the added affect of driving away high performers

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

Listen in to On the Brink where Brandon and I discuss where crypto yields come from and why the time is right for institutional adoption

On The Brink

@OnTheBrinkCIV

2 years

In our latest interview we sit down with @arvanaghi and @bryce_meow of @JoinMeow to talk crypto yields for corporate treasuries

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi So important for companies to stay founder led for as long as possible. It’s the only way to establish a multi-decade vision!

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

A major reason Facebook shops failed. When I was building it, I tried to talk to the customer support team and was told engineers were explicitly banned from doing direct customer support or working on improvements to the customer support process. Was dumbfounding.

Jack Altman

@jaltma

1 year

No one at a company is too senior to care about individual customers or product details. Those are the things that make a company work, and if leaders stop caring everyone else will too.

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@bryce_meow

1 year

Shoutout @amitisamazing he knocked this one out of the park

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@matt_levine Makes sense, no one is going to let him near other areas of a highly regulated U.S financial industry

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

@packyM Not impossible to overcome, just requires more capital investment by supportive VCs. Solana ecosystem has major VC support for example so could stay competitive tooling wise

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

Focus areas to nail B2B growth Funnel * Content * Marketing * Product * Outbound Conversion * Product * Sales * Low-Friction Onboarding Retention * Implementation * Design * Customer relations

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@ErikVoorhees A fractional reserve bank converts its reserves into assets in the form of loaning that money. It sounds like Bitfinex drained it’s reaerves to cover expenses, that makes a HUGE difference on their balance sheet

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

Business is a booming

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@cz_binance For those that are curious as to how Binance is offering such a high yield, they are basically using the crypto you lend them as collateral in their margin pools which they can lend back out at an even higher interest rate

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@auren What's interesting to me is that an outsider can more easily trick an insider with surface level traits (credentials, clothes) Whereas an insider will almost always appear phony when trying to signal to true outsiders (burning man, canned counterculture)

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

We're building a trillion dollar company. If you're the right fit, you'll be an indispensable part of a winning team

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

One year ago. Unreal how far we’ve come. LFM. 🐱

Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

MVP hacker setup to ship an MVP. Let’s get after it

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2 months

@meow Customer trust is the most important asset for any business

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@devonzuegel Mmm tasty blockchain chicken

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

6 years

@winklevoss @NickPaumgarten @tylerwinklevoss Also Ashton Kutcher has an excellent track record of angel investment. Sad to see this lack of research

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

11 months

Brandon is a brilliant operator. I'm lucky to have him as a co-founder. Highly recommend this thread for a peak inside his mind

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi @JoinMeow Shoutout @mediomateo for the fast work here!

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

@sweatystartup Seems more efficient than individuals driving their car (since most neighborhood aren’t walkable) to the store for a one off item. Amazon at least batches the activity

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

Meow has averaged over 1 code release a day (including weekends) for the past month. Immensely proud of this metric. 🛳️

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

4 years

@MacaesBruno “Unthinkable” because they don’t have freedom of speech. Dissident journalism intrinsically proves the existence of US core values and has been a staple of American life for anyone that knows history

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@muslenerd @binance Or up, dirty BTC is harder to offload thus making the overall supply more scarce.

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

Good founders typically have competencies across 2 or 3 major facets of business be it product, sales, engineering, recruiting etc. The reason we have co-founders is so those 2-3 competencies turn into 4-5

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

@brianmcmichael @Plaid Because banks have yet to figure out what an OAuth API is

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

25 days

@brandon @meow We're incredibly lucky to have customers that evangelize Meow, this growth wouldn't be possible without them ♥️

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

11 months

@Minsguy @JoinMeow Grateful for the product feedback and to serve @Metaplex !

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi It’s nice when businesses earn their interest instead of the banks

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

Outsized marketing spend is a big red flag for crypto exchanges. Insinuates the goal isn't to drive trading volume, but deposit volume (keep the ponzi alive) FTX followed this pattern, obviously. Some others seem to as well...

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

4 years

Online ads are the internet's way of supporting micropayments without legacy payment rails Many would pay $.03 to avoid watching an ad before a youtube video but current technology can't support such a solution

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

A number of founders getting into AI will probably underestimate how strong one needs to be at math to make it effective Dalle-2 and other deep learning based models (read ez to tune) require insane amounts of data and >$100k in compute costs to train. Not viable for small cos

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

11 months

Super pumped to ship this product for our customers!

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi @JoinMeow Meow ♥️'s our customers

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

Meow's shipped 41 code releases in May and the month isn't even over 💪

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

10 months

@ntropy_dev @JoinMeow Ntropy's API has been a game-changer for Meow!

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

@nic__carter @krugermacro On AAVE or Solend 1. Deposit USDC 2. Borrow USTw 3. Sell USTw for USDC 4. Deposit USDC. 5. Repeat to desired leverage Cost is 0-3% annualized roughly

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

@AriDavidPaul Coding shrinking as a profession necessarily means that there is a cap on productive software that can exist Building software has only gotten easier over time and yet there is more software now than ever. AI aided development will simply enable more people to become engineers

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi The best time to learn about treasury management is today 🚀

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

🐱 Save 🤝 Spend 💳 Excited for this!

Ramp

@tryramp

2 years

NEW: Ramp x @JoinMeow 🤝 Proud to announce our new partnership with Meow. We're both here to save you money, whether that's killing duplicate spend or finding untapped yield & interest for the cash in your bank account:

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

Proud to see my team's latest work out in the wild!

Gemini

@Gemini

5 years

Gemini is proud to now offer Stop-Limit orders ⛔ You can place buy or sell Stop-Limit orders on all order books using the Gemini ActiveTrader™️ interface, as well as our REST and FIX order entry APIs. Read all about how Stop-Limits work on our blog:

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

Something really interesting is happening on @AaveAave right now. The utilization rate for the Ampleforth $AMPL has hit 100% This means depositors of aAMPL can no longer redeem deposit tokens for the underlying AMPL (1/n)

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

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1 year

ChatGPT has been extremely useful as a tool to navigate technical documentation. For example I prompted it to "Imagine you are an expert in Appsmith and understand all of their documentation" and subsequently can query summaries of various workflows without having to read docs

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

@cmsholdings Soon @JoinMeow

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

@HsakaTrades BTC dominance is a zero-sum metric. If still care about it then you haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening in crypto

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

11 months

Venture debt is top of mind for a ton of founders and CFOs right now. Join us for a deep dive with Upper90

Meow

@meow

11 months

Debt markets for startups is as clear as mud. • Why do startups use debt? • What are common terms? • How is the market different post-SVB? Well, we got the answers. July 19th. 2 pm EST. Join us for a workshop with Upper90:

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

@chrishlad Work life integration 💯

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@backus Agreed! Identies are dynamic, not convenient

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@hosseeb This issue exposes a major vulnerability for a DEX. DEX traders assume all counterparts risk of a double spend attack. Centralized exchange users are shielded by counterparty risk via they exchange they use

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@devonzuegel Furniture. Mobility is important to me and I don’t want nice stuff to get in the way

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

11 months

Pretty much convinced that company's pace of customer learning drops 10x the day a management layer is inserted between ICs and the founders Software and AI are going to extend the time companies can spend in learning mode before scale gets away from them

Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲

@alexisohanian

11 months

Startups are obviously not the same as the military, but I believe this new era of building companies will feature CEOs who want to change the world with "Seal Team 6" (tight, small, elite company) rather than "The Navy" (lots of headcount, bureaucracy). AI and other tools will

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@brandon @meow Don’t be too humble @brandon you’ve put together a masterclass in building a scale up in my absence. Wouldn’t want to found a company with anybody else

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

3 years

@charliebilello Because the Fed considers a society where normal folks have to work two jobs to afford housing preferable to >3% unemployment

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi We spend all day thinking about counterparty risk so founders don't have to

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@chrishlad @packyM @JoinMeow @arvanaghi We’re gonna do all the finance

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

Guessing strategy is 1. Finance tender offer, buy back GBTC at 20-40% discount to NAV 2. File for Reg-M relief and open redemptions. 3. Sell off GBTC bought with tender offer for quick gain and plug the Genesis hole

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

@arvanaghi So grateful for how much easier it is to build a tech company today

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

Pumped to be done with sawdust creatine powder A new era begins @trycreate_co

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

@ecgenc @packyM Ease of development leads to more efficient development so if Near is simple to build on then that helps it. Still Near must build all its own tooling separate from the EVM ecosystem. Major headwind compared to AVAX or FTM or rollups that get Ethereum ecosystem tooling for free

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

2 years

Pretty huge. Overcollateralized borrowers are net creditors to their counterparty. Dropping rehypothecation goes a long way to reducing risk for borrowers

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@Austen Maybe best to say public markets are rejecting the pricing expectations of private investors

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

10 months

@arvanaghi @JoinMeow Nothing makes me happier than delivering more for customers

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

5 years

@tottinge If these are the kind of rabbit holes your dev team is going down to add a feature then STOP 🛑 you have too much tech debt to continue effectively Make an effort to decouple and isolate components, create more robust interfaces. It’s not supposed to be this hard

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Bryce Crawford 🐱

@bryce_meow

1 year

Working on it rn. Meow speed 🚀

Alex Roytenberg, CPA - 🛡️

@TheNFTCPA

1 year

#1 most important thing for startups has to be product velocity and listening to feedback from the customers. Today: 10:46am - Me: Feedback 10:53am - @JoinMeow : We will look into this and get back to you 10:58am - @JoinMeow / @arvanaghi : We will deploy before EOD Me: 🤯

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