Great to meet @cz_binance in person today after his panel in the @BBGNewEconomy.
Such a humble human being.
Simon
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Simon
@realsimon
Head of Growth @alliance | Fmr @valiucom @ycombinator | Creator of the 1st stablecoin fintech in LatAm and BTC-backed stablecoin.
- If you are building in #web3, I am interested in: - Being your customer - Investing $10K-$250K - Recommending you to @alliancedao, @ycombinator, @OrangeDAOxyz & more. - Telling everyone in #Crypto about it - Helping you raise your round - All the above Jump in this thread or dm
- DMs are open for founders looking to apply to @alliancedao to join the #1 Web3 founder community and get funded with $250k-$500k
- LatAm’s GDP is twice India’s. Yet it receives only a fraction of VC investment. Lots of opportunity.
- It's Twitter official. I joined @alliancedao as Head of Growth - with the mission to find network effects around the best Web3 founders in the 🌎. Ecstatic to join this elite DAO to build a sustainable, deterministic, and defensible growth machine. mirror.xyz/simonft.eth/pB…
- If you are building in #web3, I can help by: - Referring you to @alliancedao - Investing $250K - Amplifying you in #Crypto: - Demo Day: bit.ly/3ANwwyp - TechCrunch: bit.ly/3nZgcmA - Helping you raise your round - All the above Jump in this thread or dm
- How to get his dog name: 1. Find out where Brian lives. 2. List all the Vets in 10 sq km. 3. Call all the Vets, say you found an Akita that belongs to a person called Brian Armstrong. 4. Confirm the Vet, and ask for dogs name. Hit jackpot. Then launch on @pumpdotfunI got married this past weekend to my long term partner and best friend, Angela Meng! Can’t wait to build a life together.
- There are more genius Venezuelan migrants working on the future of the country than I initially thought. I am today more certain Venezuela will be the first crypto economy. Led by entrepreneurs.
- I am reading the daily stoic. Sharing : You want to look for pleasures that don’t have diminishing returns…Sunsets, sunrises, being with family—things you never get tired of. But chasing the newest thing, buying a new car, buying something fancy—these get old really quickly.
- There are 2.4B USD in cash circulating in Venezuela. The total valuation of the banks is 800m USD. Venezuela is officially dollarized.
- After 4 months of 80+ hour work weeks, 500k+ lines of clean code written across 4 engineers, shifting the company fully remote due to COVID, and completing a rigorous regulatory analysis... I'm proud to say that Valiu's cryptodollar is now live and running in Alpha.
- I am a YC founder + Alliance core team member. My main take from a recent YC alumni retreat is that while YC founders are smart cool folks, the type of founder who starts a crypto company is inherently different. Theres a little bit of a 'Bro' culture in YC, while the cryptoCrypto companies have a lot better options in web3 : @alliancedao being the closest equivalent ( biased as an LP directly and indirectly) . Many other run offline programs like @Hadronfc Ultimately these are likely better options than YC because they make interact more with
- I am in the Bloomberg New Economy Forum with the 200 leaders of the world. From the CEOs of Google, Goldman to the Vice President of China. They were asked about crypto. They don’t get it. Very high level. Throwing political fancy words out there. Change is inevitable.
