Operating Partner & Head of Crypto Startup School 
@a16zcrypto. 25 years working on frontier tech. 2X CEO, 4 exits & most recently VP Subscriptions at Google.

CSX Day 1:

@jasonr: PMF is like playing poker. Achieving it is like winning hand - it gives optionality. 

@benrbn: Devil in the details, God in the defaults. What's cool for users?

Dinner: "Are you on Farcaster?" in almost every convo paired with "This is how $degen works"

Some more notes from Ben's talk:

- Anxiety → todo list → done = balance
- Devil is in the details, god is in the defaults
- How do people talk about product at dinner?
- Work should be fun, meaningful, and rewarding
- Should be rewarded for work you put on the internet

A winning hand (pmf) gives you optionality: 

- fundraise 
- get acquired
- acquire other cos
- build massive generational company

Talk from prev batch here

Eng at Warbler Labs working on Heron Finance and Goldfinch.

Built easybridge.io, onchainfacts.xyz, zodiacdaily.xyz, and other random projects.

A winning hand (pmf) gives you optionality: 

- fundraise 
- get acquired
- acquire other cos
- build massive generational company

Talk from prev batch here 
https://youtu.be/quRytq_LF8E?si=rGNjrjSpMvcxuMww

can you elaborate on the optionality from achieving pmf?

Holistic views of tech. Helping teams manage complexity and build more effective software – /framedltime – /sauce – /cto

Simple products done well = complexity is abstracted away by making opinionated decisions about what the defaults should be

Mind expanding on the “God is in the defauls” part?

Only 2 things in life money can't buy you - love and PMF - welcome to my ted talk

That is super cool! Thanks for sharing! 
Really like about ‘how degen works’ and PMF is like playing poker ♥️