crypto

“If you're a trader in crypto, and it requires you to be so glued to your devices all the time, and if you can't disengage for periods, you're actually no better off than the guy who's working 18 hour shifts. Like, you're exactly the same. Your number on the sc…”

“It's also web, like, crypto and web, like, it's, I, personally, I think of it as, like, open access, meritocracy, borderless, anyone can do it. A kid on the streets in India has the same access to that Discord channel as a kid growing up in Greenwich going to …”

“I think that, you know, there's gonna be a burnout. I predict a burnout and I'm already starting to see some individuals that are just, they're taking it too far.”

“A huge part of, I think, anyone's story in this industry is certainly luck and timing, right? If I had had the exact same story at the very beginning of 2018, it would be very different, right?”

“The most important thing everyone can know is just don't trade. Just don't trade. It's so easy to make money in crypto by simply investing and waiting.”

“But for me now, crypto is You know, 70, 80% of my portfolio, and then breaking that down, 70% of that I've always believed 70% investments, 15% cash, 15% for trading and investing in your best friend's company that is going to lose your money.”

“I think crypto, I think Bitcoin was actually the first technocratic religion.”

“Who have made money, but they're not motivated by the same status symbols as prior generations. They don't want to buy yachts. They don't want to buy private jets. They don't want to buy, you know, houses. They want to buy digital rocks. They want to buy Uniso…”

“The thing that gets people into crypto is not the tech. It's greed. Like, let's be very honest, right? Like, yes, the tech and the vision and, like, the narrative is super compelling. For a lot of people, the greed's a big part of it. And as they get into it, …”

“And crypto is not going to be mainstream until people could click links period.”

“This is an area that has opportunity because not many people are doing it. Thinking about it or want to spend time on it. It's like super sexy to invest in venture, growth, crypto, whatever. So returns get squeezed. Zig when other people zag and like do the th…”

“There's this myth that older adults like don't get crypto, not interested in crypto, not interested in NFTs, and it's the complete opposite.”

“Insurance companies don't like insuring volatile things. Right. And so they're not going to move into the space, but I think the big question of like, how do we actually solve this problem is how do you assess the intrinsic value of a digital asset, which is a…”

“Crypto was this new way for people to earn an income online and not only could they earn an income, they were actually earning ownership in the projects that they were participating in which I thought was so interesting and something that had never been possib…”

“Prices are hopefully gonna reset to some extent in the private markets too. And you're gonna be able to invest in things at a, you know, a more reasonable price point and generate better returns for your investors, which creates a feedback loop of more money f…”

“I don't think most consumers would pick the decentralized crypto version over the centralized trusted brand. People are underestimating centralized trusted brands.”

“There's only two things that outperformed the Fed balance sheet over the last, since 2008. Only two asset classes. One was technology stocks, and the other was crypto.”

“So therefore the volatility now, I've been adding as fast as I can, scraping the sofa for coins or anything to put more money in.”

“I really think crypto is the only real venture investable vertical that is taking place right now.”

“The DTC bro is now the faceless YouTube bro. Who was previously the crypto bro. So like the next, this is like the next gold rush”

“I always try to look at, like, what are things that are low status right now, or medium status, and not high, and that will be high status in two or three or four years, because that's where the arbitrage is, and I think that's where we're at with crypto.”

“How to create a product people want. Number one, find inefficient markets. Number two, add a trust layer. Number three, build social. And number four, don't necessarily say it's crypto.”