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renaud partners hosted a dinner w some of our closest friends and partners in paris last night from @wormhole, @PulseNoLimits, @raikucom, @superteam , @SolanaFloor, @artblocks_io, and more.
what a vibe! 🍷
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@AgentChud “hot sculpt” ?
was described as a mix between yoga and cardio
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gm to everyone except ricky who just peed indoors
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Why I Work in Crypto (And You Should Too)
When I graduated college in 2020 with a business degree in management and finance, I still had no idea what I really wanted to do. Covid had just hit and nobody was hiring in-person. Most of the open positions seemed to be at high-growth tech startups, so I got a job in SaaS sales at HubSpot, a business software company that had seen explosive growth in recent years.
While I was only one of 5,000+ employees, HubSpot was living in the shadow of the CRM giant Salesforce, and still had a lot to prove. Internally, that contributed to an underdog mentality, which, as I look back, feels like a microdose of the energy in the crypto space today.
But like I said, I was only one of 5,000 employees, and my responsibilities were clear cut, rigid, and did not allow for much creativity. Mentors and senior employees often shared how different it was in the early days, when everyone had chips on their shoulders, and the odds were really stacked against them. I dreamed of what it would have been like to be among the first 100 employees.
After awhile, I got tired of the monotony. I didn’t feel like I could make an impact, and cold calling small businesses to inquire about their marketing software needs wasn’t much fun anymore.
It didn’t help that it was now the summer of 2021, and I was firsthand witnessing unprecedented technological growth in crypto and wild degeneracy in the trenches of Solana NFTs.
Crypto felt like what I imagined the early days at HubSpot to have been, but with 100x the risk, energy, and potential upside. I was hooked, and learned as much as I could, as quickly as I could. But I also soon realized that most of what was happening on-chain was gambling, and spending 10+ hours a day on brain-rot CT wouldn’t help me grow, improve, or meaningfully contribute to the growth and adoption of this exciting new tech.
Over the course of that year I watched my friend @intern re-define crypto-native marketing, and land a job at CMS for it. My FOMO was real. I needed to work in crypto, but I still had a lot to learn.
The best way to grow is to surround yourself with smart, high functioning people. So I joined a scrappy team of some of the smartest and highest functioning people I could find. At OpenDive, I learned what it meant to work at a true startup, to think outside the box, and to create something from nothing. Our team did many experiments on a variety of infra layers, which gave me some insight into most of the emerging blockchain ecosystems.
While different chains stood out for different reasons, one fundamental trait the OpenDive founders appreciated was performance. They saw the vision for Solana from an extremely early stage, and devoted significant time and resources to build there and push both the tech and ecosystem forward - even when most of the crypto space didn’t.
When it came time for me to move on, I was particularly attracted to new, high-performance chains. For a left curve smooth brain such as myself, it was very simple: more performance = more scalability = a greater chance for increased adoption.
When I heard about this very new chain bringing “Solana like performance to the EVM,” I was intrigued. I hopped in their Telegram (which wasn’t competitive like it is today) and started to learn more. It was the middle of a brutal bear market, yet the Monad Community was alive.
I quickly learned more about the vision for Monad, and why the co-founders’ HFT backgrounds perfectly suited them to take a new approach in scaling the EVM. It was clear this team was incredibly ambitious, resolute, and determined to solve hard problems by building new tech from scratch.
It was also pretty clear that they didn’t need to be here, they wanted to. Phrases like “no shortcuts” and “mainnet is only the starting line” fuel a drive to execute as quickly as possible, while trying to improve by at least 1% every day. It’s become obvious that surrounding yourself with performant people will make you more performant.
This year, I’m very excited to join the Monad community, builders and (hopefully) the world on-chain. I’m excited to see founders experiment with new dApps, taking advantage of both Monad’s performance and 100% EVM compatibility.
I’m excited to see Monad Builder mindshare grow, and I’m excited to see new ideas enabled by increased performance. Most of all, I’m excited to be here to witness it all firsthand, shine a light on progress from @pipeline_xyz and @monad_dev as well as support builders, community members and teams in any way I can.
As an ecosystem, we have an extremely ambitious mission, and the road won’t always be smooth, but that’s ok. It wouldn’t be this fun if it were easy.
Gmonad & strap in. 2025 will be bigger than you can imagine.
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@tackettzane @tristan That’s cap…Ive heard you speak fondly of future Zanes🥰 time will tell
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@finnamakeit @mariahjsummers yes! We miss u guys!
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i am considering cutting my bangs with kitchen shears
someone talk me off this ledge
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