Andrew Capasso
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Andrew Capasso
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Building @Petal_Network | Prev: @AP, @central_fdn @ABI_DC_Updates @AmericanU 🇮🇹 🇻🇳 Wasian




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NYC is about to get a sonic sanctuary in Lower East Side. It's called Stylus. A 10,000 sq ft listening temple with: - immersive audio - shoes-off listening lounge - 40Hz sound and light therapy - a suspended catwalk and record wall - acoustically engineered to transform by genre It also has an integrated sound system by Devon (OJAS) + a full restaurant program led by Michelin-starred chef Anita Lo. Coming to Clinton St in LES...



From my apartment in NW DC… Grocery store: 8-min walk Metro Station: 7-min walk Dry Cleaner: 4-min walk Coffee: 3-min walk Kalorama Park: 5-min walk Liquor Store: 3-min walk Restaurants: 3-7 min walk Target: 15-min walk It’s hardly an urbanist lie.






I spoke with Dio Casares (@diogenes) of @patagon about why Anthropic and OpenAI voided secondary shares before their IPOs — and why, structurally, pre-IPO perps sidestep almost all of those problems. It’s an inside look at why pre-IPO perps avoid the legal hot potato aspect of pre-IPO trading activity. 🎧 Timestamps: 🚀 00:45 Why are we seeing so much pre-IPO activity bubble up right now 🗂️ 02:45 The types of market activity that are happening pre-IPO and why they’re happening 💙 6:04 Coinbase: Get 20% off the first year of your Coinbase One annual plan at coinbase.com/unchained ⛓️ 07:52 The kinds of problems that buyers and sellers of pre-IPO shares are trying to solve by going onchain ⚖️ 11:15 How unicorns have wanted to be private but have their shares 📊 13:19 Why people aren’t just waiting till pre-IPO share perps go live to get exposure 🃏 15:30 The problems can arise in second- and third-layer SPV situations 🏦 18:19 Where the Robinhood tokenized-share model fits in all this 🏛️ 19:59 Where the FTX bankruptcy Anthropic block falls 🗺️ 21:55 The spectrum of players — from offchain to onchain, from shadier to more legitimate 🤺 24:30 Why more of this activity is happening on Solana than Ethereum 🤝 25:23 What Patagon does in the secondaries market 🔭 29:27 How Dio expects the onchain private market space to evolve unchainedcrypto.com/why-pre-ipo-pe…















