Aryn

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I feel incredibly blessed to have mentors guiding me on my founder journey. If you shared your time and insights with me this week, thank you—it means the world.

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Making a reading list for this year. Any suggestions? Open to all types…except for smut. Current list: Hooked by Nir Eyal The Creative Act by Rick Rubin The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell The Prince by Machiavelli Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

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I just had an interview with a potential founding engineer. He asked for $750K a year in stablecoins and <0.5% equity. I can’t decide what bothers me more—the outrageous salary request or the lack of confidence in the company given the equity demand.

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They don’t share tips with hosts 😔😔

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I keep getting rejected at the door from founder happy hours and networking events for being under 21 at Money2020. Young founders need some love too 🤓🤞

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Never trust a crypto bro in a nice suit

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At Money2020 rn and I’m realizing what a paradigm shift crypto has been. Heard people talking about 1033 and open banking as these giant leap forward. Guess they’ve never heard of zktls 😏

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Getting your early customers is a lot like pledging. Everyone says it builds character, but all you really end up building are questionable marketing tactics, a crippling caffeine addiction, and a level of shamelessness you didn’t even know was possible.

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So much energy today…the future is now old man 🚀🚀

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Being a founder trying to focus on a narrow niche is like being a child in a candy store and being forced to eat kale.

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Launch something bad…quickly

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Undercollateralized lending proliferation on chain is inevitable. I think 2 things need to happen to get there. 1) We need a wedge product to prove to users that on chain borrowing can be cheaper and more efficient while proving to lenders that defaults don’t significantly change when the money transfer rails are changed. 2) Someone needs to create a middle layer between liquidity providers and borrowers that underwrites the risk and manages lending. Unlike Aave’s and Morpho’s of the world, undercollatoralized protocols can’t scale vertically until there’s a way to delink off-chain management of debt from the lending marketplace itself.

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Never let the scientist in you die 🧬🧪

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Forest fires while flying into LAX. Have we done irreversible damage alr???

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Successful day as a founder be like

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If you find the right altruistic mentors, you’ve won half the battle. Shipping product that moves you towards your north star quickly is the other half.

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4am is the only sane time to drive into Boston on September 1

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I imagine a world where my paycheck hits my base wallet in usdm👀

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