Silicon Valley Daily

“Why did team X raise Y at Z whereas team A only raised B at C?”

1. Market, team, product all count but one more than others 

2. Fundraising is a skill, funds raised is an output

“This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.)”

We think crypto is bad so we raised from a crypto VC

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