Alex Fine

I'm often asked "What are we going to do with $72M" 90% of our spend is on people. Talent density is a startup's only real competitive advantage.

We drove 410% conversion lift on @Replit's enterprise funnel, 2x-ing the number of demo requests. All in a matter of months. "Coframe makes you feel like you have a team of 100 people. There's nothing on the market like it." ⧉ x ⠕

Who is John Galt?

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Questions are everything. Because the people who never stop asking are the ones who find answers.

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it’s makers vs takers

In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems

design has to be in the founding DNA of your company for it to be a forever priority otherwise it won’t seep through every corner of your org like it needs to because it becomes an uphill battle to justify its place you can buy it and hire it, but it won’t be the same

We're excited to announce a $4M Seed round led by @GameChangersVC, with support from incredible investors including @scooterbraun, @GuyOseary, @stellation, @SignalFire, @MaCVentureCap, and others. A few years ago, while hosting community events and testing early products, my co-founders @WeilynChong, @NathanAhn, and I noticed a consistent pattern. After every event, people asked the same questions: Where are the photos? Who captured that moment? How do I reconnect with the people I met? fortune.com/2026/06/16/pho…

I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US. Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured. These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax! We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions. These are two possible routes I see: 1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair. 2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.

NEW: Juan Hernandez, a welder who says he took “just another contract job” at SpaceX for $28/hr in 2015, is now a millionaire as shares soar.

I am filled with optimism at the fact that the world's first trillionaire was made not by hedge funds or market manipulation, but by building the infrastructure to take America to the stars.

Huge. One of the strongest teams period.

but where are the customers' yachts?

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1/ Applications are now open for Powerset Cohort 4, where top founders get their own $ 1M+ fund for angel investing. Last year, Anton Osika (Lovable) and other elite founders joined Cohort 3. Our founders have deployed $ 20M+ so far and are outperforming top VCs.

Most of the KYC friction you experience when buying crypto has nothing to do with compliance. @AlexKFine says it's poorly built risk models and there are better ways to manage the underlying risk without making the user experience painful. 99%+ of Fun's volume is fiat to stablecoin. Users go to Lighter or Polymarket and deposit without knowing Fun exists. The business model is Costco: consolidate all the fragmented payment stacks, compress the vendors, offer rates nobody else can, take margin at scale.

@mxmnci @fun GM – happy to give you a sneak peak

any early stage solana companies try @fun for ramps? how was the experience?