life update: i've joined @multicoin on the investment team!
if you're working on (or just thinking about) cool things, would love to chat - dms are open
Eli
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Eli
@eliqiann
investing @multicoin (opinions are my own / not a solicitation / not an offer for investment advisory services)
- Centralized science was incredibly effective during WW2—it helped create the atomic bomb, radar, & more. However, the current system for funding research is broken. The institutional model has run its course—here's why the future of science funding will be decentralized. 🧵👇
- 1/ The physical collectibles marketplaces of today are not built for the collectors of tomorrow. @kankanivishal and I wrote about Blockchain-Enabled Collectibles Marketplaces (BECMs) and why we think they are the future of collecting
- Science is in crisis. More than 70% of scientists have tried and failed to reproduce peer research. Less than half could even replicate their own results. @DeSciLabs is looking to bring scientific research and publishing into the web3 world with DeSci Nodes. 🧵 👇
- in 2025 i'm excited for: 1. multiplayer trading experiences that leverage the virality of sharing financial wins & losses 2. next-gen media companies with tight vertical integration across content, token, distribution, & human capital DMs open if you're building here!the members of our investment team shared some of the frontier ideas they're excited about for 2025 multicoin.capital/2025/01/07/fro…
- working on a new type of social network—one where ppl connect thru mutual thoughts, not mutual friends looking for serial notetakers and crazy-thinking writers to join our community if you live in roam/obsidian/notion/etc or carry a notebook everywhere, reply/dm for an invite
- accountability apps x crypto would be cool you and your friends lock up money + get some defi yield + ppl who fail whatever challenge you set lose their money to ppl who succeed can add in a trading aspect too where your group simultaneously allocates + competes for a prize pot
- In 2021, 50+ startups went public. The combined value of their exits is in the hundreds of billions. The prospect of an exit allows for risky startups to receive speculative investment. But no such exit exists for nonprofits, open-source projects, and research... yet
- Blazed through "Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers (@sivers) this afternoon. Here are 5 messages from the book I'm thinking about👇
- the ux + rollout of @blackbird breakfast club has been better than expected. baristas know what the thing is, blackbird pos thing is easy to find, and most places are listing what is covered under the pass gj, doesn't feel out of place to use it at all
- nyc friends! planning to live in nyc (east williamsburg) for the month of january pls drop your recs for food, cafes, gyms, and anything else
- the obvious thing that @WHOOP should have done (and can still do) is require at least 12 months left on a membership to upgrade instead of forcing users to buy 12 more months regardless of what they currently have
