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28 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
It's striking how polarizing this tweet was and if you're tempted to try to dunk on it, I'm sorry to say it will not age well: @cdixon is absolutely right.
Blockchain is not only the proven tech to do it, but the timing with a critical mass of online community and culture gives it the opportunity to actually work. Internet culture is culture. That was true a decade ago when the front page of Reddit was the next day's news.
This probably feels laughable to people because it's such a massive shift for anyone who doesn't live in online culture & community *and* hasn't also seen crypto dramatically evolve in the last decade to do Remarkable Work.
But what I've seen in the last two years alone has convinced me this is here to stay and we're in the messy early days of building a new freaking internet.
And what's wild is we haven't even seen the @LilNasX or the @tiktok_us of web3... Yet.
Because money is tied into these new rails... And money pays our bills and feeds our families... This shift is going to happen with extra sauce and extra fast

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26 Sep
Had a call w a very smart investor who dismissed NFTs, trading cards, collectibles as Beanie Babies + I nearly fell out of my chair, but I get it, if you're not tuned into the power of culture (esp internet culture) this all looks like a fad, a blip. I need to do a video on this.
and FWIW those Beanie Babies are still worth something... but yes, the supply massively outpaced the demand + cultural value...

mentalfloss.com/article/573674…
"But what about all those worthless NFTs being created? Most of those are going to go to zero."

Yes, I agreed, 99.999% are going to be worthless. But 99.999% of ALL paper is worthless, but the medium isn't flawed, it just hasn't got art from Picasso on it.
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27 Aug
Leaders lead. Sadly, though, most would rather wait until the community outcry is so great that they're forced to make the hard—but correct—choices.
We've seen it time and time again. It's not easy for really hard decisions with big impact, but the test I use is a personal one: "can I defend this decision to my daughter one day?" The answer needs to be "yes" before I can consider a course any further.
And when that comes back a "Hell Yes", I know in my gut that hard decision will lead to more good outcomes that I/she'd be proud of. Life's hard decisions become a lot easier when I look through that lens.
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6 Jul
Grail Acquired. @OnlyAltOfficial just secured the most valuable trading card in the world: a 1/1 @StephenCurry30 (his rarest card). The gag is that even at $5.9M today, it's going to look like a steal in 10, let alone 25, years. This is a new era for contemporary art.
A simple thought exercise -- this is a $91M sculpture. It's beautiful, seminal work of Jeff Koons.

Do you even know what Jeff Koons looks like?

christies.com/features/Jeff-…
How many kids or grown adults have ever shouted at the top of their lungs as Jeff Koons was making his art? These beautiful pieces of cardboard capture icons in an age where cultural moments are being created on courts + pitches + fields in real-time for the world to see.
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2 Jul
You have until midnight tonight to apply for our @sevensevensix Analyst position 👇 really proud of how we built an application designed to attract + hire the very best from first principles, eschewing standard VC bullshit signals.... here's a glimpse of our application
From the start, we're laying out the archetype for this role (to make sure we're not wasting anyone's time)
Now it's time ask some questions... they're designed so they're not a total waste of your time (and will also give you a chance to reflect on the career you've had so far)
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28 Jun
I gave the commencement address at my alma mater @UVA this year. You can watch the whole thing on my YouTube channel (spoiler: @Olympiaohanian cameo at the end) or just read this thread for takeaways 👇
1/ People & experiences are the ones who matter.

Graduation day isn’t for you. It’s for all the people who helped get you here - take some time to celebrate them, because you don’t know when it’ll be your last chance.
2/ I wish I could’ve been in C-Ville for this bc it's an impt community for me (where I decided to become an entrepreneur, named Reddit, created Snoo, etc). Everything I’ve done as an entrepreneur, investor + (business) dad is threaded w principle of bringing people together.
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6 Jun
I guarantee the @NWSL / @WNBA pre-game runway content is gonna be a massive marketing opportunity. Loving see my @NBA pals doing it, but the women do it way better
As a thought exercise: if you knew nothing and I told you there was a sport that had effectively popularized and monetized the "fashion runway" of athletes before a match... Wouldn't it be surprising to learn it was the men (of the NBA)?
Given how female models absolutely dominate the culture (can you name a single male model other than Zoolander?) and how much more women produce/consume on social--This is a goldmine

Again, investing in women's sports is going to seem OBVIOUS in a decade, these are just receipts
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