Fahim Sach 🔴✨

@StevenBartlett wow, the growth is insane - love to see it

life is so weird! Some years ago, in a Manchester bedroom, i started a podcast with a $100 microphone and called it The Diary Of A CEO... The idea was that i'd share some of the more personal things in my diary - that first episode got 40 subscribers on Apple. Most of them were my friends. Thankfully, two of my friends told me it wasn't as embarrassing as I thought it was, and told me to carry on. Today, about 6 years after bringing the show to YouTube, we hit 16,000,000 subscribers. This month we had 90 million± downloads/views (a new record for us), and added 600,000+ new subscribers to the show. no rational person looking at me sat in that bedroom at 3am, trying to figure out how to edit on garage band, using a sock as a pop-shield for the microphone, would have forecast any of this. i certainly did not. all of this has been so weird to me that it's mentally easier to just not think about it, and focus on the work... which is the decision we've always made and will continue to make In an industry dominated by American media giants, I'm really proud that a show founded in Britain by a team of now hundreds of Brits, many of them young people in their first job, can compete globally... And i'm reminded again what's possible with the right people, the right focus, a willingness to work very hard, (and some good fortune and timing). AND... i'm reminded again of the power of the creative industries in the UK. FLIGHTSTORY, our media company behind The Diary Of A CEO and a growing slate of other shows, just finished its 25,000 sqft campus in central London and is expanding in the US. We're hiring like crazy - so please get in touch if you're looking for a job! We're looking for everything from software engineers, creatives, C-suite level execs and more! To the audience who show up week after week, thank you so much for handing me one of the great, unexpected, privileges of my life! ok, back to work!

@SebJohnsonUK @ProjectEurope_ @Kitty_Mayo_ those "young" founders look pretty old tbh

There's something magical happening in Barcelona at the moment The tech ecosystem feels invigorated and there's a real chance it could be one of big tech cities of Europe. Last week I was at the @ProjectEurope_ hackathon. @Kitty_Mayo_ and Jade always do an amazing job bringing together great people from the local ecosystem. I was also able to meet some amazing founders thanks to @DidacLee and team at Masia, and the ecosystem is POPPING. Also I am also trying to experiment with new types of content. Let me know what you think of the video. Watch the whole thing to hear the absolute WORST parts about working with @HarryStebbings 😂

@fabric_vc @coinbase @base @foundersfactory @animocabrands how to attend if LDN-based?

We’re one week out from R[3]sidency Demo Day in London. From 800+ applications, we’ve selected 8 companies building what comes next in the Machine Economy. In partnership with @coinbase, @base, @foundersfactory & @animocabrands, this marks their first public reveal. For investors looking for early access, we have a limited number of seats available, DM for an invite. April 28, London.

@DavideFi very well put!

ETHCC 2026 recap: DeFi on an employment crisis great weather, great events, great vibes, but the landscape is shrinking and money is drying out going straight from NYC DAS to ETHCC, it is clear to me that DeFi is living an identity crisis on multiple fronts gone are the protocols run events where all their users go to feast at the expense of the treasury - in are the multi-hosted gatherings where most builders go all together but where you also meet the same people villas hosted by the few protocols that fundraised in 2025 and are still growing or soon to launch were the highlight of this year. the meta was less beach-front venues, more curated and researched places you look around for your friends that came last year, and notice always the same faces from the last ethcc - while some of the usual faces are gone and not seen any longer. events are curated but you can see they net is cast much larger because you can’t fill a space being hyper selective. places this year are smaller and the hyped events are not huge venues but small curated terraces very quickly at capacity about DeFi now, what’s clear like the cannes sky is that many of our frens are still around but they are looking for what their next chapter is going to look like. layoffs have hit the community with sparse victims, with chains and daos closing the faucets of infinite money i tell people i work in defi since 4+ years and the looks are not anymore of excitement but if surprise: the OGs are gone from the industry and almost everyone around is a new participant that came around recently and has no memory of what it once was the question they all these people have is: what’s next for our industry? defi founders and people with cool ideas are not the cool thing anymore, at least here in cannes, if we exclude the few hackathons that were not oversubscribed for sure but still manifested great ideas and use cases many defi projects sold or got acquired by corporate entities that are keeping the builders around but run on a different dream that the original founders dreams - but this is probably the bright side of the changes with merger and acquisitions keeping the light on on those long term builders so what about our frens in search for a new adventure? europe is DeFi. and defi needs europeans. DAS was full of suits having a job in tradfi working on adoption Cannes was full of DeFi builders and believers wondering what’s next for us tokenization is not the answer to everything, but it’s definitely leading the current narrative of tokenizing everything, and to work with institutions or companies that can help the industry scale defi is alive but in a rough shape, and we need to make sure our friends find a way to reinvent themselves. long live defi, let’s keep it alive and let’s keep growing defi in europe

This guy literally dropped the best mindset shift you’ll ever hear

@xenowits @EthCC @Morpho @airfrance @RektHQ wow can't believe lost + found just gave you a t-shirt see ya in cannes!

day 0 at @EthCC cannes: > landed at nice airport; saw @Morpho 's ad among some traditional real estate ads; pretty cool > @airfrance lost my baggage; had to roam around in a tshirt the lost & found dept gave me > attended my first event of the conference; @RektHQ summit / @stable_summit day 1 > met up with few friends and gigachads; @wormhole from @LlamaRisk , @shaddoteth , @DDinkelmeyer from @midas > met new legends like @PatrickAlphaC and @SebVentures top learnings: > security landscape is changing really fast with AI-tools > audit companies are trying to keep up with it > formal verification and strong human verification of AI-generated smart contract code are non-negotiables > team sizes are dropping; defi is the only point of discussion

@TFGolden @emmalandriault1 @EidJohann @aave see ya there!

Cannes-not wait to chat all things RWAs with @emmalandriault1 and @EidJohann at @aave. Come along!

@emilianobonassi see ya there!

Bonjour Cannes ☀️

@theshre @meetgranola @0thernet if open to the public, how to sign up?

Who in London has set up some crazy personal AI agents? We're hosting a demo night at the @meetgranola HQ on April 9 with our friends at @zocomputer @0thernet! Would love 2-3 more people to demo what they've built. Who should we have on?

receipts!

I only see wins for the UK all round

incredible to see the timeline be london bullish this is a great city, and we need to be champions for what this city has to offer

@milalolli 🇬🇧

If you are London based and Londonmaxxing building stuff. Drop a 🇬🇧 below 👇 I’m forming a group for IRL events and I want to see you there

@nicolasosharp beautiful to see..lets gooo london co's!

I went to Downing Street this morning with founders and CEOs from UK startups and scaleups to talk about tech policy. Left feeling optimistic. There’s real ambition in this government, a willingness to listen, and a clear desire to help builders. The UK also has extraordinary talent, world-class universities, deep capital, and founders building globally important companies. But the biggest thing the UK needs to “fix” isn’t policy, it’s vibes. That’s on us. Help each other. Be optimistic. Build ambitious things. Stop waiting around hoping someone else will do it. People don’t move to SF because of policy (it’s worse than the UK). They go for the energy. It's on us to build that here.

@binji_x yesssserrr!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧

a glimpse of the energy we will be bringing to the london tech scene this summer.

@hooeem this is the way

this is my dream 1: mortgage paid off in British village home 2: holiday around europe 4 x per year min 3: never have to look at the prices on a restaurant’s menu, just order and enjoy 4: shared holiday home with family in Madeira to avoid the aids British winter 5: shared holiday cabin in Norwegian cabin with family 6: take kids on the best hikes and nature maxx them through their childhood and adolescenc 7: home gym basics in garage to hit family PRs on the fkn daily 8: step maxx British countryside 9: sunday roasts and guiness on tap in local village pub imagine the quality of life man, holy sheet, it’s time to go berserker mode.

@LarhribAmine @jinglejamOP Lots of reasons but most importantly, they are excited about building on OPM (as am I)

@FahimSach @jinglejamOP Yeah, it's a big signal for real-world usage on OP. What's the main reason they picked Mainnet over staying on Scroll?

Very excited to announce that ether.fi Cash is migrating to OP Mainnet. 70,000 active cards. 300,000 accounts. $200M TVL. One of crypto's fastest-growing payments products is making Optimism its home. The problem: crypto holders want to spend without selling. Every transaction forces a choice between conviction and convenience. ether.fi built ether.fi Cash to solve this.  Teams building consumer-facing products at scale choose Optimism for production-ready infrastructure, ecosystem network effects, and long-term alignment. For developers building payments, lending, or consumer-facing applications: this is what production scale looks like. Welcome, @ether_fi! LETS GOOOOO!!

@chang_defi the 🐐

Gmonad

5/ The Ethereum Foundation believes in Defipunk: not finance that’s marginally better than TradFi, but finance that couldn’t exist without Ethereum. Let’s push for more finance that couldn’t exist without Ethereum. Return to Defipunk.

@SebJohnsonUK @elonmusk taking multiplying ARR to another level

In January my third daughter was born - our third in three years. We now have a higher ARR (Annual Reproduction Rate) than @elonmusk. If we keep this rate up we will have 13 children by the age of 40. And if our children then have 13 each, and those 13 have another 13, and those 13 have another 13... then in 8 generations we would have successfully repopulated Europe. Most people think @ScalingEurope is about Scaling the continent's tech ecosystem. WRONG. It is about having a gazillion offspring