Founders

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...?

Being as fearless as Cassie in these situations comes from her unwavering conviction to her mission, vision, purpose. I actually believe that we need to work within the web2 world seamlessly to effectively scale to 1B DAU, which is counterproductive to her ultimate vision. But let me tell you something, I could be completely wrong about this and it makes me so incredibly happy to have pioneers like her testing the boundaries of the possible. If it wasn't for the Cassies of the world the internet itself would not exist. 

I watch from the sidelines, hoping to play a role in her success, because I also believe she is right. A wholly independent onchain/online internet must exist to guarantee that freedom endures and the rights of the people are enshrined immutably, away from private and political interests.

I don't know how those two visions co-exist and intermingle, but I'm here to find that answer. At the end of the day I take comfort in the intentions of good people doing good things. Go get em Cassie.

Join the movement, create a better everything, all we need to do is keep building. /justbuild /talkstory $units $justbuild $moxie

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

/quilibrium

Well even better 😂 

Cassie, I was so moved by the other thread you casted I was ready to help you burn it all down with you sister. Power to the people!

> I actually believe that we need to work within the web2 world seamlessly to effectively scale to 1B DAU

I don't disagree with this at all 😄 MPC TLS bridging is something we have as a post-launch objective so that the web2 world can be bridged into Q natively