Roberto Riccio

VCs are sleeping so hard on crypto-enabled payment rails. Especially US-based VCs, since this is a Global South need. Not obvious to them why the problem is hair-on-fire. Yet ~1/3 of Alliance latest cohorts are payments, remittances, localized exchanges, on/off ramps, etc. And these startups are growing like crazy.

The deadline to apply for Alliance’s ALL17 cohort is tonight at 11:59 PM PT. If you’re building a startup, read on to learn why the best builders choose Alliance ↓

Silicon Valley finds consensus, crypto finds arbitrage.

Alliance ALL16 Post Demo Day Livestream x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

All16 Post Demo Day Livestream, today, 11:30am est. 18 new Alliance start ups.

yup we’re in the paradigm leaves crypto part of the bear market (again)

As a general rule, you should be simplifying things for people in the org chart above you and elaborating/elucidating things for people in the org chart below you. Your manager needs you to be super concise, and your reports need details and explanations. Tragically, this is the exact opposite of what people do, because they want to impress people above them with complexity, and because it’s tiring to keep explaining things to people below them.

PMs don’t just ship features. They kill them. Shipping isn’t the job. Shipping the right product is. A great PM doesn’t fall in love with the roadmap. They fall in love with the problem and have the guts to say: This isn’t solving it. This adds complexity. This doesn’t matter. Every feature, setting, UI, element should fight to exist. At Nest, we had one rule: If you can’t explain why it matters, it doesn’t ship. You had to tell us the why. The reason a real person would care. That one rule killed dozens of features.

Who knew the ultimate hack to presenting well is just a bunch of 1:1 convos before to get all the annoying questions out of the way

Meditation clears your context window Doing anything ambitious is very difficult when you are carrying around 200,000 junk tokens unrelated to the task Sleep does the same thing. This is why people find mornings so productive.

.@PalmerLuckey’s advice for young founders: “If you want to work on technology, work for somebody else. If you want to work on nonstop bullshit—start a company.” “It became clear there were people much better than me at certain things.” “I had to stop doing the things I liked, and start doing things I was uniquely able to do— running the company, doing fundraising.”

Four types of people at every company now yes, people get 10x better when the go from bottom right to top right but also, people get 10x worse when they go from bottom left to top left

Ok seems like allowing the teams of early stage companies to cash out millions of dollars before building mature businesses is not good for motivation / retention so let’s either give up on the dream of Internet Capital Markets or change the structure of these tokens

on the latest ai news cycle: u will learn a lot more from doing it than from reading about it. and just as importantly, reading often creates anxiety and doing almost certainly leads to clarity.

im not aware of a single stablecoin startup that we funded >6-12mo ago that's not growing exponentially regular reminder that @alliance is this best place on the planet to start ur stablecoin startup. dozens of fast growing stablecoin companies including unicorns that will serve as ur gtm and/or mentors

The team @predexon was pretty stuck on a tough B2B pricing decision and posted our question on the Alliance DAO forum, hoping for some guidance. Farooq, founder of @raincards (ALL7) and Alliance alum, personally replied with thoughtful, concrete advice. Rain is a unicorn (~$1.95B valuation, $250M raised). His response immediately cleared the fog - we knew how to price our product and why. That’s the real power of @alliance

The ALL17 early application deadline is tomorrow at midnight Pacific. Apply at alliance.xyz to: - Receive $500K in Funding - Pitch Top VCs at Demo Day - Join the Alliance Founder Network

Work with hardcore people on hardcore things.

The ALL17 Early Application Deadline is 1 Week Away

Congratulations to @raincards (ALL7) on their $250M Series C at a $1.95B valuation! Rain enables fintechs to offer stablecoin-powered cards to end customers through a single compliant API.