For the record, nobody ever pays me to tweet something.
* I retweet any 1/1 artist approaching me
* I retweet with 👀 when I see something new/interesting
* I tweet abt projects I invest in <— for these, I am sometimes a (paid) advisor to the founder where I work w team
A project trying, but failing, is not a rug. That’s how entrepreneurship works.
A project not trying, not delivering & just making stuff up. That’s a rug.
Silly
@phantom
friends, EST is a thing that only 5-10% of the world cares about.
Use UTC please. The universal one. The one that works for people from all over the globe. We all know our time in UTC.
We don't all know our time in New York time.
The oppty is global.
A good dev friend of mine is about to release an excellent product for NFT investors.
Am excited to join as an advisor.
Let me know if you want to be included in the alpha testing.
More details soon.
I’m going to hit 20k followers somewhere in the next 48hrs or so.
This doubled from 10k in approx 6 weeks?
I am unsure what to make of this or what to say. Thank you all for such a great time here.
You’re all kings and queens in my book.
I am doubling down on Web3 tech companies & Utility. I want to spend less time on my RL business and more time researching in this space.
To celebrate this, I also picked up this Panda this morning. It's appropriate. Let me tell you why.
🎉🎁 Giveaway for
@GetDolphin
🎁🎉
Prize: 1 whitelist spot (one of the final few)
Duration: 24 hours
1⃣ Follow
@GetDolphin
2⃣ Join
3⃣ Quote Tweet + Tag a Friend
4⃣ Reply 🐬
(Am advising this project (& love it), hence this unusual giveaway :) ).
I love the DeGods community & all Frank does for all of Solana, but I will not apply to the yoot scholarship.
That being said, I recommend you do!
Let me explain.
I view Solana as a city.
Its a model that is super useful to me.
Our city needs a healthy economy, driven by founders building cool stuff in different districts & the people living here spending their money there.
REMINDER:
* If you are building a digital product/service for people on SOL
* And you are funding that project by issuing an NFT
* And holding that NFT gives me a portion of your revenue
-pls hit me up & allow me to invest-
There is a sickness in NFTs & it's the alliance between influencers and grifters stealing from retail.
There isn't a formal contract anywhere, but that's what is happening.
Influencers get to buy in size & dump on retail. Grifters get rich from the royalties.
If you raise funding via an NFT to build a product, but fail to get any traction, that’s not a rug. That’s the expected outcome of the entrepreneurial journey.
I’ll happily invest in your next idea (as long as you communicated clearly)
Can you imagine, a decade from now, you sit with your children.
You’re bitter.
You look at coingecko and realise you could have had all the wealth you ever dreamt of.
But you’re broke, because getting rich in a decade wasnt fast enough for you.
You needed it even faster.
I find ‘fudding bags you don’t have’ one of the most toxic things in this space.
Therefore, let me do the opposite and mention some projects I sadly have no exposure to, but really admire.
I’m hitting 10k somewhere in the next 24hrs. Thank you all for joining me here.
Stay tuned for more dad adventures & the occasional alpha ;-).
Wagmi friends 🤍🤝
I continue to be amazed by the independent thinking of some ppl here. I admire those who are not swept aside by the horde!
A modern LEONIDAS must lead these 146 who prefer a 3-4x flip on their bee vs holding a stake in one of the most promising projects I have seen in some time.
Super excited to announce I am joining
@MarinadeFinance
! I’ll be a part of the bizdev team and support Marinade as it prepares to roll-out ‘Marinade v2’. (👀👀👀)
A year ago, my web 2 company was -almost dead-.
Covid had been brutal.
There was near zero revenue since the start of covid. I had to pay my team w what was in the bank.
I managed, but still remember the desperation of March 2021.
Big thanks to all the projects who were willing to tell me if their treasury was safe in USDC or not.
Going to sleep calm like a baby while amazing builders build.
PSA to web3 tech founders aiming to raise via NFTs.
Happy to help bring together a group of people who I trust & can invest w size and agree to a lockup.
Fairly confident these people & myself can also help w strategy / intro’s / etc.
Dear founders!
We launched a free job board this morning where ppl who want to work for NFT projects can post their availability.
That was eh, 13hrs ago? We have 21 ppl who posted what they are looking for.
This is a free service. Come take a look in the Library & recruit!
I have three big "bets"
1) Infrastructure --> things that make more money as Solana usage goes up
2) DeFI x NFT --> things that make more money as Solana usage goes up
3) Betting/Gambling --> things that have a perfect product/market fit with the people currently here
Would any VC/angel here appreciate a quarterly (?) email from me with companies who are about to kick off a funding round?
(Ofc for free. You wouldnt pay, companies would not pay either).
Dm me if you’d like to be on this list.
Today, for the first time since I started in crypto (so that was a year ago, feel free to ignore), it feels like 2008.
Market holding its breath. Rumors everywhere.
Love it.
Be the eye of the storm, stay calm friends. Mute people who spread panic, lean into people who think.
Don’t get distracted. There is no other industry where you have this much access to real talent building cool stuff.
This is a digital version of Wall Street + Silicon Valley moving at 10x the pace.
Ignore the noise.
Today, somebody paid me studding fees
Somebody paid me money to breed with one of my horses
I cant explain how cool it felt
There’s no project like
@photofinishgame
SOL is getting closer to ‘just buy a bunch and not look for a decade’ every day yeh?
For what lvls are you waiting?
If you are waiting, why not just pull the trigger now?
Not FA, hoping to learn.
imho, when your weekly cashflow >
* what your family burns in a week
* what you want to invest in a week
You've 1000% made it.
We always focus on increasing the pile of money we have. But I'd like to take this moment to talk about "burn".
It's boring. But I am boring :-)
In 2022, I am going to invest silly amounts into builders who are building stuff where SOL people can spend their SOL.
Will still look at the occasional PFP project, and will happily support real artists, but I found my spot.
10x more people on sol = 10x larger economy.
LFG
My first crypto bear market.
I’m a little excited.
Just remember, right when things seem to be at their absolute worst is when things start to get better.
I dont do charts, but doesn’t “feel” like all hope is gone at this point. We must go lower for that.
Been having some conversations with people who want to read about finance.
Please find below 3x3 book recommendations.
3 books for beginners, more advanced readers & those that want to go a little deeper (but are not quants).
Just in case you forgot.
If you were lucky enough to be invited in the Helios presale & you sell >25% of your holdings:
- we disagree on what smart investing looks like
- we disagree on what acting in good faith looks like
Last time I wasn’t really clear upfront.
60%-90% of web2 startups fail. No reason to assume web3 ones do better.
That being said, bullish on humble & gritty founders. Bearish on those who ‘flex wealth’
Wife to 4y old: “would you like to go skiing?”
4y old: “yes”
Wife: “do you know what skiing is?”
4y old: “no”
—
My 4y old already embraced ‘Ape first, research later’ lmao
For the record, I think all the influencers who sold will regret doing so in 1000 days or so.
You may think “lmao, who thinks ahead that long”
Kek. -every- early-stage investor does
Making an exception to my "no giveaway" rule for somebody I respect greatly. Giving away 3 whitelist spots to the
@svplychvn
Male Robot Mint!
To enter;
1. Follow
@itsdaramola
@svplychvn
2. Retweet and tag a friend
Drawn in 24 Hours. LFG!
I sometimes dream of starting a DAO, exclusively with people who, like me, love investing into web3 tech companies.
I won’t do it. Don’t have time to do it properly.
However, if I would, here are some of the people I would invite (& you should follow).
With my name, I knew this one had to be mine.
Over the moon to announce I have acquired "The Imperial".
Transacted via
@YawwwNFT
for one "unrevealed" + 75 SOL.
Thank you
@Confusername1
for indulging me here.
gm all!
Feeling exceptionally grateful today.
* dolphin wl mint going well
* DCF back online
* a ton of cool things I cant share yet
* turns out I have covid, but the above compensates it 100%
No golf swing today though, Papa Gaius is taking it slow 🙃
There’s so much wonderful DeFI on SOL.
It’s just a little hard for NFT ppl like me to find SOL DeFI maxi’s.
I want to make more DeFI friends, where do I go?
Dont be upset if you miss an airdrop
Ecosystem ‘levels up’ with days like today. You’re in this ecosystem, so you benefit.
Even if its indirectly.
Chin up