@theisaacmed Agree, the new years eve fireworks show at Copa cabana was also amazing! So MAAAANY people but so organized!
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I went to this free Shakira concert last night in Copacabana. 2m people also went.
She speaks fluent Portuguese. It’s actually wild and a huge sign of respect.
Was fun. I don’t think I’ve ever been around that many people in one space.
Logistics were actually pretty impressive and security was tight.
I think Coachella tops out at 125k people per day. So the scale of 2m people in a space is insane.
We left early because we wanted to beat traffic out.
I think more cities should pay for city-wide events like this. Really brings a sense of community.
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka
Shakira played a free show on Copacabana beach last night to a crowd of 2 million. Rio's city government paid $4 million to put it on. The city is expecting around $155 million in return. The whole thing is a tourism program called "Todo Mundo no Rio," which means "Everyone in Rio." Every year through 2028, the city books one massive pop star for a free show on Copacabana. The city built it to fill hotels in May. That month sits between Rio's two peak tourism windows, and bookings would otherwise dip. The first two years proved the model. Madonna's 2024 show pulled in 1.6 million people, and the local economy got about $60 million out of it. Lady Gaga came in 2025, drew 2.1 million, and brought in $109 million. Both weekends, the city's hotels were packed. Shakira is on track to top them both. Rio's economic office is projecting around $155 million in spending at hotels, restaurants, taxis, and shops, plus another $250 million worth of news coverage worldwide that the city would otherwise have to buy through ads. About 310,000 of last night's crowd flew or drove in from outside Rio. Airline bookings to the city were up 80% the week of the show compared to the same week in 2024. Hotels were full. When the previous mayor was asked whether spending public money on a free Lady Gaga show was a good idea, he didn't dance around it. Yes, he said. He'd done the same for Madonna. The reason was simple: the shows fill the hotels and the restaurants, and the tax money rolls in. 2 million people is about the population of Paris. They were all standing on a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) stretch of beach. The setup ran 16 video and audio towers down the coast so the back rows could still see and hear. The city is generating roughly $40 of economic activity for every $1 of public money it puts in. They're doing it again in 2027.
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Which crypto wallet/ app allows QR payments in Indonesia? 🇮🇩
Seems like @JupSpend and @BitgetWallet doesnt have QRIS payments yet.
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Chiiny 🌺 retweetledi
When building lean go-to-market teams today, there is now contention points between tenure and skill, technical and creative due to AI
The gap is now widening between:
1. Someone who is young, has grit, doesn’t yet have domain expertise but can ship quickly using AI
2. Someone who has domain expertise but moves slower, not as savvy with the latest workflows and tools
Person in bucket one will make a lot of mistakes (at high frequency too if operating at speed with AI) and needs to work under someone more senior to develop expertise.
Person in bucket two either needs to be able to lead a team well (which includes knowing the latest in AI), and/or willing to get back in the trenches to ship, or will be replaced
The gap is also compressing for talent that have strengths in both their “left and right brain” - it’s a golden age for those who use both:
- Developer engineer types that are also creative, social, have some niche taste in art/music/culture
- The marketer and creative director type that knows how to use AI tools to ship, write code, automate
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Content needs to be built differently now. LLMs as an audience… your AI writing for another AI.
Announcement, blog, or pitch decks, the format will alter from sharpness and wit to pattern recognition, repetition and association.
marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-wri…
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@bl0ckjames I came from the creatives side of the beverage industry as well working with mixologists. It’s such a creative and fun industry. Always inspiring to see people passionate abt their craft. 🍸🍹🥃
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a bit of lore about me:
i was a mixologist for ~8 years, working in and managing cocktail bars in multiple countries around the world.
some of the best days i had in that industry were at bar patrón, sydney — the world's only patrón tequila bar.
> made the "millionaire margarita" for sofia richie, at her table, explaining the intricacies of patrón and the cocktail itself (though it probably fell on deaf ears).
> sold a shot each of the limited edition patrón en lalique collection — totalling $2,000 aud for two shots (the $300 tip was nice — still to this day don't understand who has the money to blow on two drinks)
> conceptualised two cocktails from scratch that were longstanding bestsellers on the menu (with one still on there when i visited some 5 years later).
> one of the cocktails, "the patrón saint" ended up being showcased at patrón's hacienda in mexico — proudest moment of my cocktail career.
tell you what, if it had sociable hours and didn't pay like shit — i'd have done it forever.
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@chiinyyy @JupSpend @JupiterExchange @superteam @hanstmy @jackfrostt1221 can use it for qrph and other qr providers in asia! here’s the reference
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Wait... you can buy an iPhone with @JupSpend and get $102 cashback?!
Thank you @JupiterExchange @superteam for the 10% cashback perk on all our spending 🙏
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Love to see it
Lily Liu@calilyliu
We use our treasury to support the growth of the Solana economy. That is, definitionally, DeFi. But economies don’t exist in isolation. For Solana to be healthy, all of defi has to be healthy. We like competition. We compete hard. But if we zoom out, we’re all pushing toward open finance and open systems. We’ve deployed our treasury into Solana DeFi for many years. We supported Tether’s recovery plan for Drift. In moments like these, it’s important to show up for the broader ecosystem too. That’s why we are lending USDT into @aave for the first time to support their recovery efforts, and we will also be bringing $AAVE to Solana this weekend. DeFi United
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@alexblocmates Hard agree on this. Having pov on both provider + client side will make it easier communicating expectations too
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If you’re keen on working in some sort of marketing role and are figuring out how to get in somewhere, I think it’s never a bad idea to first cut your teeth at an agency.
You’ll learn a pace of working and expectation on how to deliver that is more rare at early stage in-house roles, bar reporting directly to a new founder. Granted there’s nuance here with start ups, especially in crypto
I’ve worked with a bunch of idiots at some huge brands in the real world who have been useless because they’re totally unaware of how the sausage is made in terms of creative, production and execution. They’re just used to setting demands and seeing them met.
Sure you can learn anything on the go but if you figure out the latter first at an agency before going to work on a team you love or even building your own thing then you may find that everything else becomes a walk in the park.
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Thoughts on Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok
Reminded me of my old Private Equity days — dealing with corpo/gov guys working 9-5 without passion & soul
I normally go to builder-focused events or host a few myself. Quality builder convos/panels tend to be first-principled — there's cause and effect, what builders see as a problem and why the team decide to build [x] to tackle it
Contrast that with institutional events like Money20/20. Most execs talk like they haven't worked a day in their lives. "If you wanna get more adoption, go deeper. Remember, go deeper" "Stablecoins aren't integrated because of regulations"
Generic stuff you can expect from your fav LLM, these execs deliver em ...
Convos get better if you talk to mid-managers/juniors in fintech who actually put in the work, or people genuinely excited about what they're building. Rare in big orgs though.
The saddest part is the HUGE mismatch between stablecoin/payments vibes on CT vs on the ground at the conference.
People still talk cross-border payments & remittances in fiat on legacy rails. Stablecoin MC hits ATH every week on DeFiLlama but instos say it's still very early stages for them
The coolest part is that almost everybody sees stablecoins as a positive for the industry. Adoption is slow but accelerating, especially in APAC. Many are unbanked or don't have credit card access — stablecoin rails are the perfect fit
Countries like the Philippines and Thailand run on QR code payments, and stable/crypto rails are starting to plug into those
Another cool signal is Gen Z & Millennial spending behavior. Instead of saving for a car or house, people save for travel. They used to travel once or twice a year, now 3-5 a year, some even move to Asia for a full nomadic lifestyle. Budget tend to matter more than destination, as long as it's unique and fun, they'll just go.
Some fintechs realized this and are tailoring their apps around discovery over utility (e.g. curate cool stuff for Gen Z, up-sell it while they're discovering on the app).
All in all, Money20/20 woke me up to the reality of the world. The convergence between Web2 and Web3 is real. Web3 needs broader distribution while Web2/insto/corporates need the tech + regulations to adopt Web3 tech.
But.... Putting them in the same room and delivering tangible outcomes feels like it's going to be a lot harder than expected. The culture difference, the knowledge gap, the regulations are real.
As an industry, if we wanna maintain the builder-centric vibe, we have to do better. If not, we'd have to wear suits and beg people w/o soul for capital
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Chiiny 🌺 retweetledi
> a16z invents “new media”
> hires new media team
> new media team leaves to create even newer media
> a16z invents in even newer media
Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg
Thrilled to announce our investment in MTS. Beginning today, MTS will be monitoring the situation across technology, business, politics, and culture, interviewing the main characters of the moment all day long on X. We’re seeding it alongside other angel investors such as Dan Romero, Packy McCormick, Soona Amhaz, Julia DeWahl, Austin Rief, Ryan Delk, Jonathan Swanson and more. The founding team includes @ChrisJBakke @theojaffee @gbrl_dick , @netcapgirl, among others. MTS’s initial hosts include the above as well as @MarkHalperin @creatine_cycle @amitisinvesting @labenz @JackFarley96 @jessegenet @stevesi , and more experts across tech, finance, politics, and culture. MTS aims to be the best place in the world to make sense of what’s happening, *right now*, and it’ll be on X. This was the original vision for CNN by the way. They called it “Randemonium”. The idea was, whatever the Current Thing happening in the world, put it on CNN full time, cover it from every possible angle, and keep it running until a more important Current Thing comes along. The CNN model has to wait for something to happen IRL. But something is always happening on X. And of course, X is — and has always been, the real world. Or at the very least, it’s the place where the people who run the real world make sense of what’s happening. Essentially, what the hell is happening and why? The world’s an incredibly complex and erratic place and trying to figure that out is a lifetime occupation. Figuring that out is the occupation of MTS. To Monitor the Situation is to watch history in the making. P.S. MTS is looking for hosts, guests, sponsors, teammates, and other monitors to help make sense of what’s happening. Reach out if this is you, and feel free to join the MTS discord.
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🔥 TODAY: Coinbase's x402 launches Agent(.)market, an app store for AI agents to access services from dozens of major providers.
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