A friend asked me: Why does it look so easy to raise money in Silicon Valley? 🤔
Because what seems effortless is really a self-reinforcing loop.
Founders here aren’t clawing their way up from nothing, they’re continuing an elite cycle.
🎓Most were Stanford/MIT grads,…
Tomorrow, EASY Residency’s inaugural cohort will enter NYSE for Demo Day.
Before the event, @ellazhang516@odagius joined #NYSEWired & @theCUBE to share YZi Labs’ mission — incubation, investment, liquidity — backing founders in Web3, AI & biotech from their first pitch to IPO.
Met and spoke with Steve Chen, YouTube’s co-founder, at Stanford last night, and two lines he shared really stuck with me:
1. “In Taiwan, you can hire brilliant engineers, but if they’ve never left the country, they don’t really know what global users want.”
2. “We were just a…
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GPT-5 feels like GPT-4 grew up. Faster when it needs to be, smarter when it counts. Instead of repeating itself, it knows when to slow down and think
- 88.4% on pro-level reasoning
- 73% accuracy on tough math
Actually solves problems instead of…
New Financial Order? How to Strike Gold in Trump's Crypto Era!
Join our Chinese Community as we unveil🚀a game breaking alpha with an all star lineup‼️
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Be sure to tune in @rickawsb tonight as our incubating investor @gary_yangge dive deep with our Chinese community on the second growth curve of DeFi in the wake of the Genius Act Era!
Fun fact:
- Most RWA/DeFi tokens are valued at over $100 million FDV
- Fewer than 5% of protocols are backed by real yield from productive assets
- In bear markets, user retention drops by 30-40% in projects with inflated TVL. When yield stops, capital exits.
This time in Vegas, I was shocked by several big changes🐮:
At past BTC conferences, the audience was mostly young people. This time, the front rows were filled with old money. It felt like they weren’t just here to buy Bitcoin, they were here to assess:
Is Bitcoin the last…
This time in Vegas, I was shocked by several big changes🐮:
At past BTC conferences, the audience was mostly young people. This time, the front rows were filled with old money. It felt like they weren’t just here to buy Bitcoin, they were here to assess:
Is Bitcoin the last…
Two years ago, when I was building a Web2 startup, an investor taught me a concept that changed how I think, which was the "Flywheel Theory" (à la Amazon Flywheel).
At its core, this theory, like evangelism in a lot of ways, turns users into advocates, creating a repeatable,…
Two years ago, when I was building a Web2 startup, an investor taught me a concept that changed how I think, which was the "Flywheel Theory" (à la Amazon Flywheel).
At its core, this theory, like evangelism in a lot of ways, turns users into advocates, creating a repeatable,…
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