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hi! i'm heet; working w my best pals at /castmoney as a ring leader (cofounder) to lead marketing, ops & gtm. 23. did tradfi for 4 years through college (nomura, de shaw, pwc) & right after spent 3 years building 2 companies; - first was an ed-tech, that got followers / users in 6 figures but failed to create worthwhile products (ripen.in, raised $550k over 2 rounds) - 2nd was a b2b agency that did product / design & gtm plays for indian co's. (did $300k in 8 months; https://imaginedhq.com/) - found services boring. i write a lot about humans, money, lessons & ideas at heettike.com/essays. fairly active on x. getting active on farcaster after lurking around forever
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if you were 30 failures away from your goal, how fast would you want to fail?
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question to all: for your portfolio/watchlist tokens, do y'all track their prices or their market caps?
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https://www.terrain.com/option-rot
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writers who don’t have a blog / active following designers who’ve made their portfolio on bento/notion coders w a GitHub full of boilerplate projects content marketers who don’t have distribution founders office / chief of staff aspirants w 0 initiatives or projects to completion community managers who’ve never initiated/orchestrated a ~20 member event grifters. grifters. they are 1:1 (at best) as a resource. good for lala companies (only).
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i like ppl who both hate themselves with a burning passion and think they could effortlessly surpass god at the exact same time. (i'm people)
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quite love the fact that @dwr.eth & @v are just hiring their power users. they understand your products nuance, can think from a users shoes, can highlight what works for them/ what doesn’t. all consumer founders should follow this playbook for hiring. work with your power users. @srijan.eth @div knew this all along — half our team are cm power users!
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most of you don't know that you are an artist. you think you're the title you're given at your workplace or by society. art is everywhere, if you've got the eye for it. you won't create art, if you don't put heart in what you do. to the ones who put heart in their work, are artists for me - it takes me 30s to get a pulse of the joy their work brings to them. the ones who don't put heart are just getting by. unhappy. always looking for the next job. next big opportunity. 'if this, then that' mentality. if you're a vc, your memos/thesis' is your art. if you're a coder, your codebase is your art. if you're a pm, your product is your art. if you're a designer, that one lousy happy diwali poster is your art. if you're a writer, your words etched anywhere is your art. if you're a sales guy, your sales pitch & charm is your art. if you're a bartender, the act of making a drink is your art.
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if you're a zombie who loves comfort, scroll past this. i grew up spectating endless fights for few thousands. sold football's & wrist bands when i was 12, made my first inr 1000. paid for bhujia patty. tutored my juniors when i was 15, made my first inr 10,000. paid for my football stuff. ghostwrited on linkedin & sold personal finance notion checklists when i was 18, made my first inr 1,00,000. paid for my frivolous trips. did a job for 6m, made my first inr 10,00,000. paid for my family's frivolous trips. built a co. & raised money when i was 19. paper net-worth hit 3cr. went all-in, salary was peanuts, we went bust, started from pico bottom in '24. 0.
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the best thing majoring in economics taught me is to think from first principles. changed everything. I don’t remember a single formulae / concept et al. but it helped to seek truth (and not think basis gut/taste/half-baked opinions) study math, econ, history & physics. i didn’t study the latter. read 7 brief lessons on physics by carlo rovelli 2-3 times. for basic ideas.
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gmgn has made $52m in fees in the last 3 months -> sol bull run castmoney will make $100m when the base bull arrives; we're hacking, building, iterating, failing -> hacking, building, iterating... fortune favours the brave
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optionality exists in everything; food to order -> shopping -> stocks/tokens to buy -> gf -> company to work for almost everything if you’re smart, good looking & competent (which u r) analysis paralysis isn’t a poor man’s choice it’s for those who don’t know what they want (or what they’re looking for)
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no you just need to find the sliver of god in you
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just make one good decision a day. reduce the cognitive overload of taking a 100 decisions each day. you aren’t as efficient as u think u are
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the opposite of expression is depression
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it’s either slow death or you’re growing astronomically
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ambition eventually dries out, be interested
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hiring: /castmoney designers & artists who do branding, product, ux, have a limitless mindset. find balance in the chaos like the vitruvian man! $2-3k/mo. full time & immediate. dm w portfolio, proof of work. won't get back to 98%, apologies RTs in my prayers
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play long term games with long term people
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