Constructing the right graph that aligns onboarding w/ core product:

There's a tension in crypto social between bootstrapping initial interest and building an ongoing retentive social product, with founders often over-indexing on initial interest at the expense of retention. 1\

investing & writing about consumer tech since 2016. FID #30. hosting /web2web3 

https://www.lisnewsletter.com/

The question for builders going speculation-first is: what is your core product utility that's going to retain users?

One common pitfall is building an onboarding mechanism that tries to bootstrap the wrong network (eg Threads piggybacking off Instagram's social graph). 

You have to align your bootstrapping mechanism with the *right* social graph and build a core product experience that is going to retain people in that graph

Speculation adjacent is the real unlock

All upside