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2024-present: Architecting, building, and investing in teams on a decentralized supercomputer
- w/ Community Labs
- First exchange, stablecoin, lending protocol, and consumer apps
- Learning: it takes a village, conviction is tested not earned, you're wrong until you're right
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2023: Architected a new type of smart contract protocol on Arweave
- w/ Andres and Divy
- Failed to gain adoption and inferior design, ended up doubling down on Sam's efforts with AO instead
- Learned: good mechanism design is hard to come by, distribution matters
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2022: Started a venture studio to build teams on Arweave
- w/ a lot of great people
- 3 (and growing) products with PMF, scalable talent pipeline, departments operating as agencies
- Learned: ownership enables scale with minimal management, people > products
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2021: Launched the first wallet for Arweave capable of connecting to accounts
- w/ Marton
- >1B in volume, zero operating cost
- Learned: some of the best products market themselves
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2020: Built the first decentralized exchange on a permanent data system
- w/ Marton, John, Divy, and Max
- Processed several million in volume, zero operating cost, shut down due to regulations
- Learned: unit tests good, floating point bad, US crypto law vague
- 2020: Built a module registry for Deno developers and repurposed Arweave as a CDN
*learnings not comprehensive
**quite possibly also wrong