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Investing, for me, is a form of activism to create the world I want to see, and I'm beyond honored that the @nytimes wanted to spotlight it. 🙏🙏❤️❤️
Li Jin
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Li Jin
@ljin18
- 7 steps to transition to web3, for non-technical folks. It can be daunting to make a career shift to web3, especially for those who don’t code. There are new roles that don’t exist in other industries, and recruiting seems informal and network-based. A mini-guide 🧵
- DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) represent the next step forward in the labor movement. A thread 🧵
- I don't want an engagement ring, I want an engagement NFT
- The biggest opportunity of our time is to reconfigure the relationship between capital and labor.
- New year, new VC firm ✨ Meet @AtelierVentures, a new VC fund that is dedicated to advancing the passion economy!
- Thread: There are over 400 startups trying to be the next Warby Parker, but history shows that 90%+ of e-commerce companies will fail. What separates the successes from the failures? Here are 5 things I look for to figure out if an e-commerce startup is a good opportunity -->
- The new American dream is to make a living from one's creativity. 1/3 of kids want to be YouTube stars. But the inconvenient truth is few creators are actually attaining financial security today. My new blog is about building the creator middle class 👇 li.substack.com/p/building-the…
- A year ago, I raised my first fund of $12m, and it took 6 months and entailed pitching 1,000 prospective LPs & hearing 900 "no's".
- Off to Paris with no return flight 🇫🇷
- Who's building the best crypto wallet for normal people? 🙃
- Thread: “Fake it til you make it” is a key strategy for overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem of starting a new marketplace, popularized by companies like Uber and Yelp. The idea is to bootstrap one side of the marketplace inorganically in order to attract the other side.
- Web3 applications lack some traditional sources of defensibility, but have a new powerful one: tokens. Let’s explore “token network effects” ⬇️
