Ebony Lewkovitz

No tech company merch will ever beat the Grindr Arcteryx

@JasonYanowitz Give @mxwid a raise 🐐

More than 90% of DAS sponsors want to re-sign. The highest in Blockworks history and a sign that deals were done. Feels good to grow the industry.

@MollySOShea Such an interesting topic, @MollySOShea! Excited to dive into this one.

BREAKING: Inside Marc & Ben's Multi-Family Office — a16z Perennial Chief Investment Officer, Michel Del Buono Why wealth management is broken & how to financially prepare for a SpaceX IPO This is a closer look at how $50M–$1B+ personal portfolios are actually constructed & managed Important: Michel also explains why many founders make critical mistakes immediately after their first liquidity event, & how to avoid them. We cover: • The “no man’s land” between wealth managers & asset managers • How founders should handle liquidity events ($50M–$1B+) • Diversifying concentrated stock without killing upside • Venture returns & why manager selection matters more than exposure • Real estate, taxes, & after-tax alpha • Why volatility is an opportunity, not a risk • How to actually choose (and not get trapped by) a wealth manager Special thank you to Dave Maloney 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Michel Del Buono, CIO @a16z Perennial (01:25) The idea behind a16z Perennial (03:38) What’s broken in wealth management (09:05) How wealth has changed over time (11:57) How fee structures shape portfolios (15:26) Why single family offices are hard to run (19:47) Who wealth management is really for (23:26) What makes Perennial different (22:21) Preparing for massive liquidity events: SpaceX, OpenAI... (24:01) How to choose the right wealth manager (26:39) Why switching firms is so hard (28:01) How portfolios are actually built (31:29) Why volatility is an opportunity (32:47) Why real estate is so powerful (34:55) Taxes and the Billionaire Tax debate (38:46) Should you move to save taxes? (40:59) Chamath : SPAC losses & how they affect taxes (42:21) Secondary deals, fake Anduril SPVs & the risks (46:16) What drives returns in Venture Capital (49:42) Biggest Lesson from Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz (51:27) The biggest mistake founders make with money (52:53) How to invest after a big exit (54:16) Concerns around private credit (56:38) What big IPOs mean for markets (58:08) Keeping up with markets (59:35) What’s the focus this year at a16z

Here is an example of how we meme’d bitcoin onto Wall Street. Back in 2018, a friend told me about an old marketing campaign that suggested investors “get off zero” in terms of their allocation away from cash, bonds, and real estate. I borrowed the idea and applied it to bitcoin. The entire Morgan Creek team started repeating it over and over again to anyone who would listen. Conferences. Podcasts. Private meetings. Tweets. The argument was that a 0% allocation to bitcoin was wrong, so you just had to do anything but that. Fast forward 8 years and now Fidelity is publishing research using the same phrase. A literal meme that started on the internet has infiltrated the largest institutions in the world. The intended target of the meme has now become the messenger. This is the power of memetic marketing on display. Bitcoin is an idea whose time has come. Eventually everyone gets it.

@carter_van_solo @OndoFinance 100%. Crypto is dying and will shortly just be known as finance.

@ebonylewkovitz @OndoFinance the suits are in the room

You can tell where an industry is headed by who's willing to sit at the table. WSJ. Bloomberg. CNBC. Fox Business. FT. Reuters. Yahoo Finance. State Street, J.P. Morgan, Franklin Templeton, WisdomTree, Broadridge. That's who showed up to the @OndoFinance dinner our team produced in NYC this week. Tokenization isn't an experiment anymore. The room proved it. Long on Ondo. Long on Eden.

@JasonYanowitz This is the most inspiring thing I have seen on my feed for some time. People yap all day long about what they're building. You and @MikeIppolito_ are doing it for the world to see. Congrats!

2018 vs 2026 Dream bigger

@100xJody Interviewing the president or a murderer or Oscar winning actor or a homeless person or someone who lost their entire family in a house fire isn’t hard? Sure ok 👍

@ebonylewkovitz Talking to people isn’t hard lmao Gen Z just simply doesn’t possess this skill at large bc of being hyper online and forced into introverted habits during COVID which should have been their prime social learning years

It's laughable to me that so many people think reporting is a low-skill endeavor. Earning someone's trust, making them feel comfortable, getting them to share information they shouldn't, communicating clearly, pivoting on the spot — soft skills that are very hard to do well.

It’s still nuts to think about how much Facebook invested in this direction and then literally changed the company name around it.

@ninabambysheva Good take and also probably why mainstream folks still don't get it. Architecture of financial markets just isn't that interesting. Cardinal sin of 99% crypto companies who cannot talk about their technology in outcomes/how day-to-day transactions change.

At this point, the crypto industry should just stop building for humans and focus on agents instead. It was never good at UX anyway (with a few exceptions)

@NoahLack @RyanBrack Time to build 🔥

@ebonylewkovitz @RyanBrack Let’s go 📈

The best comms executives are tired of bureaucracy and bullshit. They want to move fast, deliver real impact, and build — not manage process. That's why @RyanBrack just joined Eden as our SVP and employee No. 4. Ryan ran Meta's global privacy public affairs. He led comms at Google for products serving billions of users. He co-founded the NYC Mayor's Office of Tech and Innovation. He co-founded an AI media company. He could have gone anywhere. But instead he chose Eden. As Ryan puts it: "Reputation is infrastructure. In deep tech, it's also a competitive moat that determines who earns trust and who doesn't." The old PR model is changing. At Eden, we're building a firm that is AI-native, practitioner-led, and unbound by traditional playbooks. Welcome, Ryan. It's time to build.

@jacqmelinek @CryptoAmerica_ @EleanorTerrett @thatgerald This is so sick!!

.@CryptoAmerica_ is on Wall Street Catch us out in the wild in NYC, DC or find us on your favorite podcast platform

And the full announcement for anyone who’s curious about what we’re cooking up: prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Operating in stealth mode is almost always a mistake. Talk publicly about what you're building. You’ll build momentum, get real feedback, and someone will reach out with the other half of your idea you didn’t realize you were missing.

@pattersonscott Congratulations! Looking forward to working with you. It's a heck of a beat.

Personal news - After more than two decades at WSJ I'm leaving for my old stomping ground: Bloomberg. Beat: crypto. If you've got some crypto angles - hit me up!

@nickgraynews Curious to hear how this tale ends. So many shady behaviors in our industry. It annoys me because it taints people who are decent operators genuinely trying to help good founder and companies scale.

I just got a cold email from a PR firm The subject line is "Nick Gray / Publicity Campaign" You probably get a dozen cold outbound emails like this every week and I feel like all we can do is just delete them and move on But today I chose violence nickgray.net/anderson-group…

@LilithDatura @fintechfrank Everything in life is comms and affects how you're perceived, including this tweet.

@ebonylewkovitz @fintechfrank comms 😆

Everyone roasting the McDonald's CEO for a cringe video obviously forgot about the last guy. Justice for Chris Kempczinski.