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This week, Q Inc has changed course with speaking with investors. Given I receive a lot of cold opens from investors on Farcaster, I would like to share that change with everyone publicly, and why. Moving forward, we refuse to even begin conversations with funds who have ever (or intend to) engaged in token warrants. It is clear our values and beliefs are diametrically opposed, and this is a far easier filter to save ourselves the time. It has been a long path to fundraising principally because we are operating from a perspective that as a company collaborating on a fair launched project, we can not and will not do token warrants. Despite being upfront about this, this topic has resulted in a lot of time wasted in talking with crypto funds, because they do not believe equity has a path to return for them, and ultimately decline. This is very telling because if they don't believe the company will be successful what use are the tokens, unless...?
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Dear @laurashin and @camirusso FYI I am sure you have heard many such cases? Since you are (imho) two of the few proper *journalists* in this space, I would love to hear about this in an episode or even series. Why? This VC behaviour could also be a key reason why crypto has such a terrible standing in politics, mainstream media and thus society at large? Even if Cassie wouldn't want to spend her precious founder energy on going more public than here already, I think you'd find a few founders who would. Plus, there is always one (VC) *whistleblower* who hates this practices but is somewhat locked or blocked and won't speak unless anon, not using real names. They could even have their voice changed for total anonymity. Irrespective of / especially bc it's election season this *truth* (big word ik) is worth a bigger audience. Ii would go as far as putting 50 USDC /skininthegame to fund a bigger *investigative piece* to be published asap.
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