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I recently wrapped up winding down the company I started four years ago. 

Here’s a long post on some of the hard-fought lessons I learned from building marketplaces and crypto apps.

I recently wrapped up winding down the company I started four years ago. 

Here’s a long post on some of the hard-fought lessons I learned from building marketplaces and crypto apps. 

https://blog.jaymehoffman.com/four-years-of-pivots

Co-founder @ponder | Ex  | colinjohnson.io

This is a really excellent post, thanks Jayme. Appreciate the candor.

Thank you for sharing!

Personally one reason I haven’t founded a venture scale business is that I am not in love with one problem and one customer so much that I want to block 5-10 years for it. Was fun to read through your take on that feeling

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"Would you want to work on this for 5-10 years?" is my guiding question beyond is this fun to me.

I think the latter "has your life led up to you workign on this" is a consequence of the first 2/3 questions

Life's work to me is interesting, I think most people don't know what their lifework is / will be until it's somewhat done

Yea, it's a tough one. I think there are multiple paths to falling in love with a customer or problem. You either have it from the very beginning or find it along the way because your solution is growing or working. 

Some questions I've thought about recently related to this: 
- Do you love this customer and/or problem?
- Would you want to work on this for 5-10 years?
- Would you be excited to be on the front cover of the industry magazine?
- Has your life led up to your working on this? And can it be your life's work?

Whatever your decentralized, borderless, neutral, censorship-resistant open blockchain question is, the answer is YES… to Crypto!

You were the first person I met IRL from Farcaster and I'm so glad to know you

On the building in public, did you find a channel that worked best for you or all 4 worked well?

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Great post, this is really helpful, plus as you know I am a fan of your work. We need to meet up for tacos!

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thanks for sharing jayme! i have a few questions, can I dc?

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Tough question. I was passionate about different aspects of each:
- launchcaster for the community
- frameboard for the mission 
- newzip for the product

thanks for sharing what's often the untold story 💜

out of all the ideas you tried, which was the one you felt most passionate about?

great piece jayme, ty for sharing, and building. excited to see what you do next

Appreciate you sharing these learnings + excited to see what you do next :)

Such a great lessons! Thanks a lot for sharing them with all of us 🙏

Good blog. Especially the demand vs supply side.

I always say, "get the demand and supply will automatically appear. So start with the demand.".

thank you for sharing your journey. not easy winding down something you worked on for years. but am sure there are great things ahead for you. all the best

Legendary run brother. Cannot wait to see what you cool up next. Epic wisdom in here, already being massively helpful sharing it all 🫂