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Joel Monegro

6 years

Placeholder Thesis Summary

Around October 2016, we began talking about working together. On August 1, 2017 (the day Bitcoin forked), we officially incorporated Placeholder Management, and in December we closed our first fund. ...

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Joel Monegro

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6 years

A Brief History of Information Technology Market Cycles

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7 years

Web is boring. Blockchain is interesting.

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7 years

Bitcoin market cap > Twitter market cap

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7 years

The matrix probably has a token

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8 years

Preparing for the election by stockpiling cryptocurrencies

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9 years

The Blockchain Application Stack http://t.co/SfIkiWxDSH

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7 years

Snapchat forked the camera

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

Seed investors who take way too much equity (30, 40, 50%) do themselves a disfavor by crippling the company's ability to raise money later.

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8 years

Bitcoin because AI needs a currency

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Joel Monegro

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7 years

Mind-blow doubles with every blockchain gathering I go to. Real change is so imminent.

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7 years

Such a long time ago

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7 years

Total cryptocurrency market cap (including #bitcoin , #ethereum , #Zcash and others) hits all time high.

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Joel Monegro

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9 years

I built a @telegram bot that lets you buy mobile minutes with Bitcoin bitminut.es http://t.co/0rwOkSc2lB

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

1/ My father used to tell me that the only thing you can build from the top-down is a hole. Mountains are built from the bottom-up.

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8 years

Why the Internet will fail (1995)

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

Blockchain is nibbling the world

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Joel Monegro

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7 years

"Transaction volume" is the new "traffic"

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7 years

I love 20% off sales! #bitcoin

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

Fat Protocols

JOEL - Online Casino Sites | iDEAL Cryptocurrencies | Blockchain

Welcome to my website where I share thoughts about online casino gambling, cryptocurrencies and blockchain with other new technologies!

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

Deep Web Marketplaces http://t.co/CZzrVCYrmZ

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9 years

Don't mistake a clear vision for a short distance.

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

OpenBazaar Is Not The Next Silk Road -- It's An Anarchist eBay On Acid

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Joel Monegro

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9 years

How Bitcoin Is Like SMTP http://t.co/2HRiI9dPoV

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

7 years

Spectacles is a brilliant pre-IPO move

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

If/when Apple buys Snapchat (or vice versa) they should rebrand to Snapple

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

6 years

@yanivf @decredproject @cburniske @placeholdervc Yes and yes. We invest in networks, not companies; buying through the open market directly capitalizes the network. VC structure, style and strategy is independent from asset class. Job is still identifying early-stage high-leverage opportunities.

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Interesting

Vortex | CTV / LNHANCE

@theonevortex

8 years

Very interesting take on #bitcoin mining in china providing a huge economic advantage/incentive.

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@jmonegro

8 years

@Codiox @dwr vertical googs = thin interface layers on top of a large decentralized network, differentiated by curation and user experience

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

7 years

Cheap coins y'all

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

One of the best things about the venture business? You save a lot of money on t-shirts.

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

When an individual rest room at a restaurant in California is larger than your Brooklyn studio 😢

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

Just got my @PexPeppers bought with #Bitcoin on @OpenBazaar via the BazaarHound mobile app!

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8 years

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of @Jobbatical and @USV chatting for the first time. Thanks @karolihindriks !

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8 years

Twilio just crowdfunded $150mm

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

BOUNTY: $1 in #bitcoin for every blockchain company I haven't heard of, payable through your @onename account.

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9 years

Groundbreaking technology http://t.co/0M9GTIGylV

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7 years

Cheap coins y'all

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

My preferred consensus algorithm is Proof of Steak

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

The Shared Data Layer of The Blockchain Application Stack http://t.co/ilFdHw2tO4

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Joel Monegro

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7 years

Complexity is not the same as chaos

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@jmonegro

8 years

Why @openbazaar ? Here's why No one, including @OB1Company can do this to OpenBazaar sellers.

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

Whitepapers the new S-1's

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Joel Monegro

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7 years

Honored to be part of the “Blockchain Dream Team” w/32 others. Free PDF on #blockchain #nsm . Big thanks to @jer979 !

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8 years

I must be fun at parties

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8 years

Still hilarious

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7 years

Bitcoin: This is Not the Same as 2013 via @CoinDesk

Bitcoin: This is Not the Same as 2013

Chris Burniske is blockchain products lead at ARK Invest, an investment manager focused on disruptive innovation and co-author of the new white paper, “Bitcoin, a New Asset Class“. In this CoinDesk...

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

"stack" is the new "value chain"

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8 years

This is very awesome

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8 years

Food on the blockchain Foodchain

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

6 years

@L1AD @jlppfeffer @cburniske One is on S3 and the other on IPFS :-)

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

7 years

Just did my taxes. Wishing there was a Bitcoin payout option for the refund!

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

Another summer day in Berlin 😊

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Joel Monegro

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7 years

I'm starting an planetary shipping service and calling it spaceship.

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

The @openbazaar team are the coolest kids on the blockchain

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8 years

The future is never where you look for it

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Getting the band together!

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Joel Monegro

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8 years

Blockchains give me the best headaches

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

Bitcoin is money at the speed of the Internet.

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@jmonegro

8 years

How long until we have mini WeWorks at airports?

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8 years

I do wonder how many high level government officials worldwide own BTC

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9 years

Bitcoin Obituaries http://t.co/HYc6VRhBRl

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@jmonegro

6 years

@L1AD @yanivf @decredproject @cburniske @placeholdervc The more work you do, the more you know, the better you invest. That’s our comp.

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@jmonegro

9 years

How to goodbye loved ones at the gate: 1) buy refundable first class ticket 2) go through security 3) request a refund right after step 2

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@jmonegro

6 years

@yanivf @decredproject @cburniske @placeholdervc We’ve always bought on the market. We do not have a special deal with the Decred team.

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

My face when I don't understand a company's business model

vivi_owl's post on Vine

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7 years

So close!

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Joel Monegro

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9 years

Certified Organically Grown Startup ®

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Who wants to be CEO of a drone startup in Estonia for a year? only on @Jobbatical

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

The safe, user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web http://t.co/zc8kYNACme via @qz

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Blockchain = single point of truth – single point of control

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8 years

Jobbatical

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8 years

5MB, 1956

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7 years

LOL @nickgrossman

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8 years

Blockchain trail > Paper trail

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

Uber is still small http://t.co/wi7i0cJlcv

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8 years

We're all just training data

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Joel Monegro

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7 years

You would expect the AppStore to accept Apple Pay. But it doesn't.

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Joel Monegro

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7 years

"Countries don’t own people anymore"

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Joel Monegro

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9 years

To the moon!!! ┗(°0°)┛ http://t.co/u4Rhl21pEE

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

Got the coins going up, on a Tuesday 🎵

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Bitcoin is to banks what e-mail was to FedEx?

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

The best features are often invented by communities, not product managers

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Netflix, Prime Video and HBO GO are the new ABC, NBC and CBS

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

7 years

@CharlieShrem @ARKblockchain but it's a lot for the billion people living on $1 a day or less

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

Just because an investor is listed on AngelList doesn't mean they're good. Be careful who you partner with – due diligence goes both ways.

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

At bar with people. Tells someone about @duckduckgo . They say "cool! I'll google it!"

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Jaywalking game too strong for SF

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Pretty sure every black Camry in NYC is an uber

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

Early adopter's life (cc @nickgrossman ) http://t.co/9Jz7vzTt1v

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

At which point do we stop training AI and AI begins training us?

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Google Maps, 1963

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

I like browsing airport bookstores then looking them up the ones I like on Amazon and reading them on my kindle before boarding #evil

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

If your customers are going off-platform to avoid your fees, you're charging too much.

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Phones will disappear before televisions

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

@jmonegro 8/ That's why I like really simple ideas – it's more exciting to see "where this thing goes" than knowing the destination

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

I really love New York

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

9 years

No way http://t.co/zqHwRA0jCv

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

'Blockchain' is the new 'Mainframe'?

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

Idea: @HamiltonMusical ticket derivatives

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Joel Monegro

@jmonegro

8 years

@karolihindriks @usv @Jobbatical I was in an Uber and then walking into the lobby of the @UNICEFinnovate offices in New York!

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