Will Fan🕊

Spent 10 years building a challenger university in Asia. Now building a challenger world bank. $8.1B SOUL WORLD BANK™ is live—partnered w/ @animocabrands, backed by $5B equity line, public on NYSE ($SOUL). From classrooms to capital markets. Let’s go.

i think it's safe to say doodles AI is a hit. millions of impressions. 10k users. 30k generations and growing. one illustration used to take us a full day to make. at that pace, in just 72 hours, you've helped us create 82 years worth of art.

Everyone tells you to perfect your pitch before an investor meeting. Almost no one tells you this: If you don’t know your numbers instantly, nothing else matters. And even fewer people understand this part: They’re not just investing in your company. They’re deciding if they want to deal with you for the next decade. Most founders overprepare slides and underprepare themselves. That’s why they walk out with a “we’ll get back to you”.

Yuzu Update: What’s live, what’s evolving. Yuzu remains active within @OpenCampus_xyz as the ecosystem matures and incentive structures evolve. Here’s what you need to know 🧵⤵️

Most founders think having a kid will slow them down. But fatherhood didn’t make me less ambitious. It made me operate better: • I stopped measuring hours. I measure decision quality • I was forced to truly delegate • I cut meetings that don’t drive outcomes • I started building for the long term • I learned presence = performance Same ambition. Higher bar.

Startup 101: Most people take the safe route and wonder why they never get ahead. If you want to build real wealth, you have to trade your time for ownership, not just a paycheck. Equity is basically a bet on yourself and the people you work with. It's risky. It might go to zero. But you can't build a legacy on a salary alone.

capy and chill

My 9-month-old is teaching me more about leadership than any investor ever did. When your baby wakes up at 3am, you don’t have bandwidth for 10 things. You do one thing: feed him. Stay awake. Survive. That’s how the best founders operate. If you have 3 priorities, you actually have 0. Sleep deprivation forces the question every founder should ask: What is the one thing only I can do right now? That question is the job. Constraints don’t limit you. They reveal you. And there’s never a perfect time: for a baby or a company.

waiting for the good times again

Most founders think fundraising starts with VCs. It usually starts with angel investors. One person writing a small check before the numbers make sense. Before traction. Before validation. Just belief in the founder.

Most people spend their whole life chasing a number that keeps moving. The truth is, past a certain point, more money doesn't actually change how you live. What changes is how you think. The entrepreneurs who build real wealth aren't obsessed with the money itself - they're obsessed with what they're building. That's the disassociation. And it's not a flaw. It's actually the thing that keeps them going long after the number stops mattering.

Startup 101: Most people make VC sound complicated on purpose. It's not. Someone believes in you before the world does, and they bet real money on it. That's the whole thing.

.@GiggleAcademy is now teaching 184,976 kids, for free.

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One of our most important partnerships came from a guy who was an instructor for NewCampus. He went on to build his own thing, worked at a few crypto companies, ended up at Open Campus. Ten years later, he called us in. Because the relationship never went cold. That's the only reason it happened. Most people treat their network like a vending machine. They reach out when they need something. They go quiet when they don't. The people who compound over time treat relationships like a savings account. Consistent deposits, long before they ever need to make a withdrawal. You have no idea who the person you met at that conference last month is going to become. Treat them like it matters. Because it does.

Success in your 20s is mostly about proving you can do it. You’re chasing the win, the revenue, and the title. But once you’ve built something, the definition changes. It stops being about the "what" and starts being about the "who." Who is still in the room after the low points? Who are you building a legacy for? I’m looking at the next 20 years, not the next 20 weeks. That’s where the real impact happens.

You’re still a baby in your 20s. It took me over 10 years to understand the business I was actually in. Yet I see 23-year-olds stressing about: The perfect niche. The perfect business model. The perfect five-year plan. In my 20s, I was probably a terrible consultant. A mediocre legal student. 😅 It didn’t make sense then. But in retrospect, I was exactly on schedule. The confusion of your early 20s, the failed experiments, the wrong industries, the misaligned jobs: that's not wasted time. That's the data you need to build something real later. You're not behind. You're accumulating. Keep going <3

The reason I started mentoring wasn’t to build a personal brand. It’s because I remember being in my early 20s. A lot of drive. Almost no direction. No one in my circle had built a company. No one could tell me what the next move actually looked like. Along the way, a few people stepped in. Advisors, peers, even competitors who were generous with their time and perspective. Those conversations changed how I thought about building. Not everyone gets that kind of access early. So now, when someone younger reaches out trying to figure things out, I try to show up the same way those people did for me.

A birdseye view of the foundation that has been built, and what we will continue to build on: • NFTs (MVP, Potatoz, Captainz) • $MEME • Stakeland • MemeStrategy • AceTrader • Potatoz IRL merch Steady, then all at once.

Most jobs people are studying for today probably won’t exist in 5 years. Not a scary thought. A massive opportunity. Every industry shift creates a window. The people who move fast in that window build what didn’t exist before. The skills that will matter: • Building your own audience • Learning fast • Understanding new tech in the real world Not job titles. Not degrees. Your ability to stay useful in a market that won’t sit still. Start building that now.