AbelsAbstracts (d/acc) 👑

A special thank you to each and every person who came to our @graphprotocol event🥳 It was my honour to be able to host this in London🇬🇧 SOLD OUT EVENT! We're so back baby! The community is thriving🤩 2024 is set to be an incredible year for web3! To the builders... let's continue to buidl our crypto solarpunk future🫡

the fastest growing startups figured out one thing: marketing isn’t a department anymore. It’s everyone’s job on the team

I’m convinced 90% of the founders job is to just do 3 things: - be delusional in your optimism - push everyone to move faster - make it crystal clear what to work on

@jadeharcoharri_ yoo @ask_joon i’m rocking the pentaform swag at the @encodeclub hackathon 😎

@G_iles_ nooo way ahaha

POV: your boss understands AI Agents better than a BBQ

On the @theallinpod this week, @chamath asked @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about decentralized AI training, calling our Covenant-72B run "a pretty crazy technical accomplishment." One correction: it's 72 billion parameters, not four. Trained permissionlessly across 70+ contributors on commodity internet. The largest model ever pre-trained on fully decentralized infrastructure. Jensen's answer is worth hearing too.

@lou3ee @EFetheverywhere londonmaxxing 🇬🇧

londonmaxxing isn't new for some. Ethereum's ecosystem has always bet on London. from Devcon 1 in 2015, to 2026 with our community hub opening. and that's what our @EFetheverywhere hub is all about. enabling the builder economy of London, for tech, creativity, and culture. if you want to swing by, drop me a DM.

@KASTxyz @QEDInvestors @leftlanecap LFG!

Building a stable future for everyone 🌎 We've raised a historic $80M Series A to give everyone access to stablecoin-powered financial services. Special thanks to @QEDInvestors and @leftlanecap for co-leading the round and to all our members for believing in our mission.

@pmarca What’s your actual workflow for maintaining that split?

My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily.

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

No startup has ever ‘empowered’ its way to product market fit PMF is a war of brutal attrition against inertia, apathy & risk aversion. It requires dictatorial obsession and near relentless micromanagement Hire only to get you, the founder, closer to the truth of the customer

@niemerg I'm in!

Anyone want to try out a new kind of prediction market?

@blockchainlenny followed back ✅

@AbelsAbstracts discovered your profile - love the startup boxing framing to outlast uncertainty. just followed - let's connect!🙃🤝

building a startup is boxing: you get hit a lot 🥊 note to younger me (hopefully helpful for others): - expect the punches and failures - stay in the ring! ship, learn, repeat faster than anyone else! - keep your hands up to protect your belief & vision, not your ego - when the opening shows up, swing hard for the knockout! great opportunities are rare! go all in 💯 one clean win can pay for years of losses. god’s got you, keep fighting champ ❤️💪🏾

@roland_graser hahaha the eu is cooked 🤮😂

just got eu-shamed

@data_nexus @fattox @jimwavefive so eloquently said ♥️

@fattox @jimwavefive I heard once that you can measure a persons life by the amount of people that were thankful that they had lived. Jim has many thankful individuals. I am one of them.

Friends, i have some terrible news. Jim Cousins (@jimwavefive) passed away earlier this week. A small number of his close friends, myself included, found out this evening. As did his family. I personally chatted with Jim more or less daily. He missed our usual biweekly call some days ago, and then didn't return my messages all week. He was always a focused, disciplined and super busy guy. But this silence was very out of character for him. As the days passed, I became increasingly worried for him. Today I reached out to others who had been feeling the same, and we arranged for someone to check on him. Jim was well-loved, widely respected, and deeply connected. I can only imagine there are others out there right now who are worried by his absence. While I know that some people may have preferred to give this some time, I believe Jim would have wanted to spare his friends the uncertainty. I’m not especially active here and I’m not part of every circle Jim built over the years. Please share this message in the hope that it reaches someone who has been left wondering, as i was. The truth hurts, a lot. But being left in the dark can hurt just as much.

@fattox @jimwavefive Just found out about this on IOH! My heart goes out to his friends and family! 💔

@tankots @WisprFlow Wispr Flow

We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get @WisprFlow to make a mistake It's the fastest and most accurate AI voice dictation app that's 3x more accurate than ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri. Today, we’re finally launching on Android. Download now: play.google.com/store/apps/det… As a part of the launch, we’re giving away 6 months of Wispr Flow Pro for free. Like, retweet and comment ‘Wispr Flow’ to get it. Enjoy. — Written with Wispr Flow

@SimonSallstrom agreed, good point! there are multiple ways to drive distribution for a product this is definitely one credible path

@AbelsAbstracts Because distribution is key at the end of the day One seemingly solid GTM method (both open law and Exo) is to do smth open sourced that gets viral

@SimonSallstrom yeah! happy to share more :) will DM you 🙌🏾

@AbelsAbstracts Well, maybe non competitive aspects / lessons then? Or just stuff that’s more casual

i’ve been sceptical about building in public for years. however, i’ve shifted my perspective a bit and so I'm happy to share more of the journey going forward. but broadcasting every setback in real time? that’s not a wise strategy for me. when you’re building in competitive markets, with winner-take-all dynamics, information is leverage. it's not fear of building in public. it's just discipline to know it's not the best strategy for me at this moment. happy to talk 1:1 with anyone who wants to know about my latest punches and failures! DM me and we can chat :)

@AbelsAbstracts So any latest punches and failures? Would love to see you build in public and share those!