Held: Content serves as modern MVP before building products
“It's very low effort to find your MVP versus before you had to go buy a warehouse and start producing things. You just produce content. And if that content resonates and people click and want to figure out what products you'd recommend for them, Then you can g…”
Dan Held built a personal distribution engine branding Bitcoin memes on Giphy
“So I started to make, I saw their strategy for eToro and I made that for myself. So I took like the most popular Bitcoin memes and then wrapped it in my own black and white design to where you could search like Dan Held and you'd see a bunch of black and white…”
Dan Held acquired 25,000 YouTube subscribers in six months with unedited videos
“I've stood up a YouTube channel. I've got 25,000 subs in six months and I just shoot one continuous shot. I don't even edit it.”
Held: Content quantity matters more than quality when growing an audience
“I think that was like the really big breakthroughs for me. It's not quality, it's quantity. It's about always having content there for them to consume and building that habit. And then over time you focus on quality”
Held: Missing a day of tweeting loses algorithmic relevancy on Twitter
“Consistency, I think is the number one thing that people forget. I have not missed tweeting a day in three years. If you do, you lose your spot in the relevancy engine with Twitter.”
Held: Crypto wealth advisory must use subscriptions, not AUM fees
“It's a services company and you can't take BIPs on AUM. That's like an old way to do it. You'd have to figure out some sort of new model that's maybe more subscription or something like that.”
Held: Kraken growth marketing jobs require no crypto experience
“I actually put in my job descriptions for my growth marketing team, no crypto experience required.”
Dan Held: My net worth is over 100% in Bitcoin via leverage
“Technically I'm over 100% of my net worth in Bitcoin because I took a small leopard position back when Bitcoin was 7000 dollars at the bottom of the cycle. Because I believe that Bitcoin, you know, in a bull run obviously appreciates. So I technically over a h…”
Held: I personally know at least 10 crypto billionaires
“I would say off the top of my head at least 10.”
Dan Held first got into Bitcoin in 2012 via a Casascius coin
“So I got back in 2012. My buddy paid me back for a beer with something called a Casatius coin.”