Bridge

“Bridge is the same company as Wire, but has 10% of the infrastructure that we had.”

“And then we, like, maybe in, like, June or something, we ended up signing Bitso, which is the largest exchange in LATAM, and then Bitso became, like, kind of like a big enterprise customer for us, and we started You know, we launched with them in September and…”

“When we were first building the product, FTX had a bunch of APIs that nobody really knew about, but we kind of discovered that made it easy to convert between stable coins.”

“We raised in April, so we closed the route in April. And then we pivoted in May. So that's how long idea one lasted.”

“As you're starting a company, especially in the early phases, there is an immense desire to benchmark yourself versus everyone else. And there's always going to be someone who's growing faster. He's in a hotter space. Who's like more popular than you are or wh…”

“We were, I actually thought that we were unacquirable as a company, because, mostly because we were working in a frontier space, and our belief of how big this space could be has, like, consistently been way more optimistic than everyone else's belief.”

“It's meaningfully accelerated the rate at which we've been, like, Acquiring developers and they've been launching and scaling and so on, which has been super exciting to see.”

“The one thing that was, like, truly existential, Was when SVB went under, and USDC depegged, because, and that was the week that we launched.”

“I actually reached out maybe in, like, late May to one of our investors And I was like, hey, this idea that we raise money on. And I was like, not, I was so stressed. I was like, not sleeping because, you know, it was like these people invest all this money in…”

“The segment that we originally launched into, which was like buying, buying like NFTs and stuff like that is what we kind of originally were like, you take your bank account, you convert the funds in your bank account and stable coins, you then use a stable co…”

“There was like circle at the time kind of had some APIs, but they were really bad. And we realized there was no clean way for a developer Like a strike effectively a strike style API for a developer to come in and take a dollar and convert it into a stable.”

“What happened was like over the course of a year, there were like, you know, a whole bunch of failures in the space and their company was impacted by it, indirectly impacted by FTX and so on. And that essentially just, like, nuked the competitive landscape for…”

“I mean, we were probably pretty consistently growing somewhere between 20 and 50% a month.”