In mid‑June 2025 I explored a founder‑horse metaphor, emphasizing endurance, peripheral vision, and “carrot” motivation loops for sustainable shipping.
“meet my brother. he refused to accept 45 BTC for a software design job in 2013 https://t.co/zN4GuLDkX9”
“All social media in the “free world” is incentivised to be divisive”
“real knowledge is never free”
“a startup name has to be primal. something you can scream out during intercourse - some guy on shrooms”
“key diff between my friends who made it to the next level vs those who didn't in their 30s: the number of hours they worked in their 20s”
“Foundry [NYC 2.2] only 5 Startup slots left”
“Founders need to stop thinking of what is ideal or what is “right”. There are no right answers. Only thing right is the market.”
“Palantir launches an L2”
In mid‑June 2025 I shared a series of X posts that reported concrete metrics from the Monad Founder Residency and broader market observations. I noted that we hosted 45 teams in New York that week, 5 teams pitched to 60 VCs at Demo Day, and highlighted the emerging rule that $200k is the new $2 mn for comparable velocity. I also voiced cultural maxims such as “early stage startup market is darwinian”, “Complainers make the worst founders”, and warned that “Crypto teams keep mistaking Twitter for a billboard”.
We hosted 45 teams at New York this week.
5 teams pitched at the Demo Day to 60 VCs.
“$200k is the new $2mn”.
“early stage startup market is darwinian”.
“Complainers make the worst founders”.
“Crypto teams keep mistaking Twitter for a billboard”.
In June 2025 I posted a rapid thread on X that tied together attention economics, belief‑driven markets and concrete founder tactics. I argued that “all attention is not equal”, that capital should shift from buying media to “transparently buying beliefs”, and I outlined actionable decisions such as capping conferences, focusing on coding or user acquisition, and joining the Monad Founder Residency (10 teams, 100 VCs). I also highlighted quantitative signals – a 10‑fold niceness ratio, 14.4k+ predictions in a reward pool, a +20 % lift in daily matches for RugRumble, and a 5× willingness to pay for GPT chain‑of‑thought forking.
I quoted: “all attention is not equal”.
I quoted: “attention that doesn’t convert is not worth it”.
The Monad Founder Residency call‑out listed “10 teams – 100 VCs”.
I noted the niceness ratio: “% of aholes/rudeppl who are nice is much higher than % of nice people who are nice, like 10x higher.”
I reported “14.4k+ predictions” in the Castora_xyz reward pool launch.
I reported a “+20% in daily matches & wagered volume” for RugRumble’s Farcaster Mini‑app.
I claimed I’d pay “5x” if I could get GPT’s chain of thought and fork it midway.
I quoted: “NFTs are dead”.
I quoted: “Long live NFTs”.
I warned: “the world is indeed on the brink of being ruled by some pretty toxic and self‑destructive ideologies and only the doers and the builders can see it coz they are the only ones who stumbled upon the boundaries”.
I described the mindset as “smart + lazy”.
I observed we’re “moving from buying media to transparently buying beliefs”.
I noted that “prediction markets track beliefs”.
I concluded that “belief moves mountains”.