Dan Romero

Co-founder, Tempo · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dan Romero is best known for co-founding Farcaster, a decentralized social protocol, after serving as VP of Operations at Coinbase from 2014 to 2019. He is also an active angel investor in early-stage software and crypto companies and is currently building Tempo.

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Disclosure

Romero: Farcaster Exports US Free Speech and Ignores Foreign Censorship

“Farcaster basically is exporting that as, like, Our social networks policy. So if I get a local jurisdiction somewhere in the world and says, please remove these activists from Farcaster to quote Elon they can shake their fists at the sky.”

Dan Romero May 31, 2025 ▶ 1:51:22 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Romero: Every consumer and fintech app will have built-in wallets by 2029

“And basically I think over the next three or four years, like every app whether it's like a, You know, kind of fintech app or consumer app will have built in wallets. They probably will use stable coins.”

Dan Romero May 31, 2025 ▶ 1:41:56 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows

Insight

Romero: Decentralized social networks must have near-zero take rates to win

“The way for them to win is to have it be as close to zero take rate as possible.”

Dan Romero May 31, 2025 ▶ 1:43:42 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows

Assertion Partly supported

Romero: Farcaster Sold 10,000 $120 Subscriptions in Under Six Hours

“We sold 10,120 dollar subscriptions with stable coins in a little less than six hours. The hundred percent of the revenue we're generating, so this is kind of like for the protocol, is going back into, to creator rewards. So effectively, we've doubled the amou…”

Dan Romero May 31, 2025 ▶ 1:43:01 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows

Disclosure

Romero: Farcaster pays out $25,000 weekly in stablecoin rewards

“We do all of our weekly rewards, so we pay out, 25,000 dollars a week in our version of X payouts.”

Dan Romero May 31, 2025 ▶ 1:40:11 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fell	May 31, 2025	9m

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