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“So I think you have all these people like kind of telling each other it's going to be awesome or it's the future without, you know, a ton behind it.”

“And you know, this period is far from even over or frankly, even getting started. I think we're still in the free fall into like in the depth of some darkness.”

“When you're listening to the experts or listening to like the, like, you know, the people who have been there, done that, tell you how you need to be growing and tell you how you need to be approaching a problem. You know, it was it was often really bad advice…”

“I know there's some, sometimes folk like VCs are a little, like, it's almost like they're claiming credit for the success of, like, singular credit. I mean, it's like, yeah, of course you help them, but, like, it's, yes, it's a little dirty when they, it's alm…”

“I feel like it's always negative signal if you go to a company's page, and it's followed by, like, old VCs, and you're just like, yeah, they, like, have, like, a hype round going, but, like, no kids actually fuck with them, you know?”

“I think it's a pain cave for a founder to go out without some angle or strategy and how they're going to get distribution, you know, like what advantage are you going to have? Because say you make something great, it's going to get copied or snatched up by som…”

“Every social founder at one point tries to make an app for like getting people to hang out together, IRL. And it's so true. I think free, free is definitely my version of that lesson.”

“Think about it with a team, you have to like give great, you know, you're trying to keep the inspiration like that, that, that energy on Mondays and through the week of like, yeah, here's the vision. And like, maybe your investor updates, maybe you don't know …”

“Right now, like, I think we're probably another six to nine months of a minimum of like sliding into finding where the bottom of darkness is.”

“You need to divorce two brains if you're a product builder in this space. One is like why you're building and what you're building, what you're excited about. And the second is like degenerative greed, degen greed on like trading and making money because I'm l…”

“Like you have artists and soldiers, right? And like if they're defined by their relationship with risk, right? And so like soldiers are fundamentally about low risk cause you don't want to kill everybody. And artists are fundamentally about high risk. You're r…”

“Anyone that's a consumer social for too long. It's really just about surviving and taking your little idea Legos or whatever you learned and molding them around, but like, yeah, surviving another day and like making something interesting and like surviving the…”

“They only announced a hundred fifty million dollar recovery fund for the 600, which is like, no, like if you're going to do it, you got to go one-to-one on recovery, like find, like in this space, you can find the people to do it, you know?”

“Obviously, Vine wasn't the first to do that, but they were the first really to bring that you know, that, that mechanic out there.”