Google Glasses were directionally right yet too early.

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

https://gabrielayuso.com

Aspiring mad scientist,
support team @ /rainbow

Only if you’re not willing to commit — they could have kept iterating but instead chose to kill it

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

Only to come back later with the iPhone and iPad — Sculley was bad at understanding consumers, Jobs knew how to pivot and succeed

Sometimes you have to shelve projects and come back later.

Determination won't get you anywhere if all your dependencies and the market aren't ready for what you're building.

Snap tried glasses too and went nowhere.

Meta got lucky that multi-modal models provide a more compelling use case for smart glasses.

I bootstrapped a PoC of meTokens in 2020. It got some meaningful traction with the RaidGuild community, but the market quieted down and it ultimately stagnated for about 6 months. I shelved it until the market came back in 2021. We raised and eventually built the full protocol, which we never could've done w/o capital.