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It's my birthday today, and I could use your help if you're in or connected to San Francisco! I've just landed here.🛬 My name is Clayton, and I'm on a mission to bring better food to more people. I'm Chief Farmer at Clayton Farms, where we're building the first fast food restaurants that GIVE years of life back to customers.🥗 We have some incredible partners and belong to amazing communities in SF, like @ycombinator, @fdotinc, and @OrangeDAOxyz. I'm looking to connect with folks who can help me find the absolute best location(s) to launch @cfsalads in SF. If you think you can help (whether it be techie, foodie, realtor, restauranter+ more), please reach out! Sharing this post for reach is appreciated, too! 🙏 Neighborhoods on my radar so far include: Hayes Valley South Park Fort Mason North Beach Where else should I be looking? With your help, we'll be farming for SF soon!🤠

@MooneyMillions Always interesting to learn more pieces of your journey. Crypto is interesting…I’ve learned a little over the past 4-5 years…should give it some more focus.

My name is Clayton. This is the untold story of my crypto journey. 2005 I'm 18. I'm playing on Ultimate Bet poker. I luck sack my way from a $100 bankroll up to a $2,500 bankroll. I cash out $2k. UB sends a check. When I go to deposit the check at my local hometown bank, the teller thinks it's fake. It did, after all, come from a Native American Casino in Canada.😅 But then she thinks she's smart by quietly ushering over the manager, who thinks he's even smarter. They think they've caught a fraudulent check creator. They usher me toward a conference room, where they interrogate me for the next 45 minutes. This is obviously before smart phones and apps. A few bank calls later and they realize it's legit. The manager won't apologize and goes back to his office. The teller tries to apologize but butchers it by saying, "you didn't like you should be cashing a check for $2k." I then have her give me the $2,000 in $1s, counted out. 2011 April 15, online poker is removed from the US thanks to lobbyists and an antiquated set of laws (f you, UIGEA). My poker career was gone in a snap.🫰 Later in the year, I hear about Seals with Clubs. It was an online poker site where transactions were in Bitcoin. It looks clunky, and I feel the golden era of online poker had died--major PTSD from it. 2013 I'm living in Denver for the 1 year I work in Corporate America (shirt, tie, cubicle city). A friend I work with is sitting next to me on lunch break and asks if I've heard about Bitcoin. I mention Seals with Clubs but that's all I know. He seemed excited. I ask why. He says to me, "Clayton, do you think banks deserve to be around 100 years from now?" I instantly responded with "No!" He starts describing BTC as the future. Over the coming week, he's obsessively sharing his thoughts on it with me. I drink the Kool-Aid, because I appreciate his obsession and I know he's thinking long term. Our next payday from work, I ask him how I buy some. I trust him, so I end up having him buy 2 BTC for me. Over the next few months, he buys 12 total BTC for me. My buy prices were between $40 and $140. I always tipped him $10 for the help, to which I know he turned around and bought more BTC with. I move from Denver to Dublin, to go back to playing poker for a living. My 1 year visa expires in mid 2014. I try to renew it, immigration says no. I'm forced to leave. 2015 I've moved back from Dublin to Ames. I'm about a year into building my first tech company, KinoSol (solar food dehydrators for farmers in developing regions). We're bootstrapping everything. We can't afford to pay ourselves. I liquidate all of my BTC to give myself more personal runway. I'm happy with the returns. I still have crypto at the time. 50,000+ Dogecoin that I got for free from faucets, as I was starting to learn that there were going to be many cryptocurrencies. side note: I lost access to all of that Dogecoin and never recovered it. 2017 I've left the day-to-day of KinoSol and have started Clayton Farms (named Nebullam at the time). All of my $ goes into starting the company. We're going through a local accelerator where we receive free office space and utilities. One of our batchmates decides to turn their entire office into an ETH mining station. I wasn't technical enough to understand how it worked, but I had a friend tell me they believed ETH was like Cloudflare. Everything else would be built on top of it. I read what I could and came to the same conclusion. I split some costs and received some mined ETH in return. My crypto circle has now expanded from a few people to about a dozen people. A few of us ride the Crypto Kitties wave and make a little $. I turn around and convince two friends who are great at writing and graphic design that they should start a blockchain news site, with a focus to educate more people about cryptocurrency. They agree, so I put the Crypto Kitties $ to work, by seeding the business. @TheBCGospel is born. It evolves into @IowaBlockchain a few months later. Side note: It didn't grow beyond a couple hundred subscribers, but because of it, my crypto circle expanded from a dozen people to a few dozen people. Iowa Blockchain is now just an X account that reshares when the automations are turned on. I have a friend who is deep in the trading trenches. He shows me EtherDelta. It's clunky but seems like a cheatcode ahead of ICOs. I get sidetracked for a month by a feelgood story in Iowa. Former Miss Iowa, Jessica VerSteeg, launching Paragon Coin via ICO. Blockchain Gospel does a big story on it, along with a few other Iowa newspapers. I put a little money into it to support an Iowa entrepreneur. About the same time, my friend who showed me EtherDelta shows me his spreadsheets and how he's doing in swing trading. We both discover Populous (PPT) with an entry of a couple bucks. He puts in almost 50x more than I do, while successfully DCA'ing out at $9, $12, and $45. Absolute life changing money for him. Instead of selling 90% and leaving 10% for a moonbag, I sell 10% at $9 and hold the other 90%. Clear from $2 to $75. Then from $75 to $1 over the coming year. 2018 I decide that I'll do the boring thing and just buy a little BTC and ETH. 2019 Going through Y Combinator with Clayton Farms and connecting with a lot of builders in the crypto space reignites by spark for testing out new products. But I don't come across anything specifically that excites me, so I go back to the boring thing of BTC and ETH. 2020 I'm lurking in OrangeDAO and actively engaging in OmniacsDAO. I'm confident enough that BTC and ETH have a long and prosperous future, so I become more aggressive on trying to convince friends and family to buy. Some listen. Most don't. 2021 I discover NFT communities I like. I'm intrigued by Punk6529. fxhash launches and I become obsessed with with pieces by Zancan, Cino, Nudoru, and many others. 2022 As a Founders Inc., portfolio company, we meet online every Friday for Ship It. We provide updates on what we've accomplished in the past week. Everyone votes. Furqan gives out 1 ETH to the winning company. The Discord is token gated with a Founders Inc NFT (an animated flying pirate ship). I discover the incredible artist, Chewy Stoll. I think I'm early to Moonbirds, but it doesn't matter. Lottery time. I miss out and buy on secondary after it's started to cool down. I still hold the cowboy hatted bastard bird today, along with 1,000+ other NFTs that have not appreciated well, but will forever be part of the Mooney Museum of Art. 2023 I'm back to caring about testing out products in the space. I discover BIGA (Big Arcade). I'm intrigued by their "own a level, receive a % of players who try to beat it" approach. I join the beta. The games are addicting, but more arcade focused than I'd like. The Discord community is buzzing. There's leaderboards and an upcoming TGE that's announced. I find myself in the top 50, securing what could be a big airdrop. TGE is pushed back. TGE is pushed back. I'm still intrigued by their model, but the delays now seem impractical. I start searching for new games, while buying some AVAX for a 5 year play, and continuing the boring thing of BTC and ETH. I do a little angel investing into some startups in the space. 2024 In my search for new games, I start to notice a lot of talk about Blast. A couple Discords mention some apps being built on it. I then discover New Blast City. Their Discord is buzzing in a more matured way. The upcoming mint has me excited because I think the art is great, and their game mechanic ideas are good. At mint, I become a top 10 holder. Post mint and reveal, I decide I want some of the faction leader 1:1s. I find the ones I can on the markets. I'm finding myself contributing in the suggestions and gameplay discussions. A lot of us in New Blast City are playing Fantasy Top. I start to play it with ~.25 ETH and then realize the mechanics are incredible. Something clicks for me to see that what they're building can withstand market cycles. It can grow in ways that both Magic: the Gathering and Poker shaped my life. With the help of New Blast City, we incubate the idea of Fantasy Top HUDs. My artist and dev friend, SocialSin, builds the app, while I help make sense of the data. Cool moment for everyone. Even cooler today. 2025 Instead of a YTD recap, here's some things I think I know that should be relevant throughout this year. 1. I'm not excited by meme coins, but Murad's idea of communities and cults is correct. What he didn't realize was the acceleration of the space and its distractions, and degradation of agents. 2. In my personal stock portfolio, I've only held 1 company since 2022. That's Coinbase. I luck sacked my way to buying near the bottom at sub $50. When I bought, I did so for a 10-15 year hold. My simple thesis is that they would get regulatory capture and become the poster child for crypto in the US. If you don't know what regulatory capture is, you should look it up and learn about it now. 3. If half the people in this space would agree to aim for 30% yearly gains (max), many more of us would be in a much better spot financially in life. Afterall, that puts you above the best hedge funds and the best venture funds out there, literally in the top 1% of 1%. That's attainable, but greed is a roaring lion that you can't get off your back. 4. Look for real businesses with real revenue. Look for projects who have products you can try today. Airdrops are good. Airdrops that come from real businesses, with real revenue, with real products are great. This year, it's called SocialFi, and it's all about compounding every ounce of authenticity you can share with the world. 5. This space keeps me energized for every facet of building Clayton Farms. Why? Because I know that 20 years from now, tens of millions of people will be physically and mentally healthier from eating at one of the thousands of Clayton Farms Salads locations. And at the same time, tens of millions of people will be financially healthier from holding crypto. 🤠

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