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Founder @tensor_hq @VECTORDOTFUN
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Joined August 2019
ok story time. wtf is @VECTORDOTFUN really. and how did it come about?. @0xrwu and me came up with the idea over pizza 8 months ago (INSANE to think that much time passed). We saw an explosive new market emerge out of nowhere and we realized it was going to be the horse of this
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I'm just speechless. Started as 2 guys in hoodies and a dream. and here we are. Thank you everyone who believed in us ❤️
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Solana is the new ETH for this cycle. No matter how much you will it to not be. All the best scam meme coins are on SOL, it’s cheaper, faster, nicer wallet, less WEF soy boy hippie energy, CNBC boomer shills love it more, it’s just hotter right now. ETH community already got rich.
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our intern just 2x'ed the speed of our front-end app. with 5 lines of code. 💀.
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2 devs, 2 trucks of coffee, 2 hours of sleep per day and wild dreams.
Holy cow, @tensor_hq is just two devs.
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Absolutely blown away by all the love for @tensor_hq received in the last 48 hours ❤️❤️❤️. Beyond all and any expectations we had. 🥹. Next stop: ending Season 3 and rewarding everyone who's been supporting us since day 1 🥰. Especially those 100% loyal.
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This is cool but @pumpdotfun makes 2m per day with 3 dudes in the uk.
There's a $1.5B startup that:.• Raised $0 funding.• Grew from a $3K investment into $500M+ in annual sales in 4.5 years.• Operates with ONLY ~60 employees. You probably have their product in your closet. Here's the most IMPRESSIVE bootstrapped story you've never heard of:.
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after 48 hours of nerding out on cursor. I feel so outdated. it's a 10x way of building stuff and anyone who's not coding this way (and ONLY this way) is over. like literally every minute spent writing code the old way is a minute spent killing yourself.
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I have a story to share. Crypto changed my life, forever. And I think it can change yours. In 2019, during COVID I quit my job and moved back to Eastern Europe. I had no clue what's next for me, but I did know I wasn't going back to neither finance nor b2b saas. Both were soul
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today is a special day for me. exactly 3 years since I quit my job and decided to learn to code. was told it was the worst idea in the world and I'll regret it. the only regret I have is not doing it earlier. trust your hunch, always 🙏
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Holy shit…. I genuinely thought I was ready but I wasn’t. My eyes are wet. Thank you everyone who’s been with us day in day out. Tensor would be nothing without you.
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Exactly 1 year ago we had 0% market share, solana went to $8,we were trying to raise and every VC call started with . "soooooo wen leaving solana". The only reason we survived was coz our own customers wired us the first checks to keep up AWS. Never forget @SimkinStepan.
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It took @tensor_hq 2 years to reach 20k DAUs and $1b/yr vol. It took @VECTORDOTFUN 2 months to reach 20k DAUs and $7b/yr vol. Study well executed pivots.
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Fun fact: @tensor_hq is still only 4 engineers (2 founders included). Three out of 4 entirely self-taught and one is 17.
Holy cow, @tensor_hq is just two devs.
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.@tensor_hq is now 20 strong. As my role as the founder changes some thoughts:. 1.Until you won (and we haven’t, not even close) founder must be in ramen mode, even if you can afford not to. As soon as you put yourself in comfort, it’s over. Your brain switches into a lower gear.
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I think every founder is basically bipolar. you're always in one of two moods:.1. you're taking over the world.2. it's over and you're an idiot.
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gm, we sold our users' $SOL for $16. sadmi.
Gm wagmi.
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Happy to announce we've moved all of our employees from salary to salary points. uncontained excitement in company slack rn 😱.
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1/11 Solana going down sucks. No 2 ways about it. But there's an important lesson there, and with it, some silver lining.
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There probably isn't a more important decision in life than choosing your partner. They're literally 50% of your future.
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For ~5 years now I've not held more than $2000 across all my bank accounts. Everything else held onchain, permissionlessly, away from corrupt evil banks. I've not regretted it once, not a single time. The future of finance is onchain.
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this is not great, I know. what if we tried incentivizing volatility instead of floor liquidity?. bad idea? good idea?
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after a weekend of deep thinking. never had so much clarity on the future of NFTs and @tensor_hq. so bullish it literally hurts.
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if I was 20 right now I would tell myself to. - drop out of uni.- ignore parties, travel, useless "tech conferences".- pay attn to what gives me energy.- triple down on that until I make stupid $.- worry about the rest later. you'd beat 99% of human race.
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Trade:.- Solana.- Base.- Eth. Soon:.- Runes. and something special :).
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This is a very special moment for @0xrwu and I. Words can't describe the low we were in in Nov 2022 when FTX collapsed, $SOL was $10, every VC told us no, and we had <1% market share. From there to here is unimaginable. Couldn't have done it without each and every user and.
1/6 We're extremely excited to announce our $3m seed round led by @placeholdervc, with participation from @aeyakovenko, @rajgokal, @alliancedao, @SolanaVentures, @BigBrainVC, @HGESOL, @MonkeVentures, @ABCV3NTURES, @solBOOGLE and many other amazing funds/angels.
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I really dont get how life works. age 20: have time to party, date, study, work your ass off on 2 jobs and still have 2 hours left/day. age 30: wake up > try doing 2,5 things > by day end todo list is 27 things . and I don't even have kids yet.
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the @stablecoin acquisition got me thinking. there's 2 ways to win in crypto. 1. you build something AS FAR from compliance as possible .2. you build something where compliance IS the product. DEXs, self custodial wallets, @pumpdotfun, and in general the onchain economy are.
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Was hesitant to post here, but here it goes. We're hiring a Tensorians Community Lead. This is a paid, full time role and you'll get to be the face of the community and really drive it forward. Looking for someone.✅ Deep into web3 and NFTs.✅ Extroverted, loud and with great.
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The older I get the more I realize there's only one thing in life that really matters: people. Not money, not job, not stuff, not anything else. People. Find a partner you can't live without. Find someone to do business with, whom you trust 200%. Spend time with family. Have 5.
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Tensorians get access to @VECTORDOTFUN first. Caveat: those that weren't dicks. Yes, this is how NFT communities should work. You can buy access - not goodwill.
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did I make lifechanging money on $JUP? . no. but am I at least going to hold my microbag until the perfect exit point and sell at the picotop?. also no, let's be real.
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2024 was a blast. Decentralized @tensor_hq, giving back $100s millions to users. Launched @VECTORDOTFUN, hitting >$1bn annual vol in 4 wks. Lost things. Felt pain I didn't know existed. But also found things. Courage. Strength. Happy 2025 degens. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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1 year anniversary for our seed raise at @tensor_hq. Crazy to think it's only been a year - feels more like 10. Thank you to all the amazing people on that slide who believed in us back when we were 2 hackers and an impossible dream❤️.
1/6 We're extremely excited to announce our $3m seed round led by @placeholdervc, with participation from @aeyakovenko, @rajgokal, @alliancedao, @SolanaVentures, @BigBrainVC, @HGESOL, @MonkeVentures, @ABCV3NTURES, @solBOOGLE and many other amazing funds/angels.
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hiring for a new twitter intern, DM.
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I'm not 20 and we did 2bn. ffs.
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6mo ago @MadLadsNFT came to Solana. We believed in the team so much that we used 3 MONTHS OF FEES to sweep lads off floor and give them back to @tensor_hq traders. Our conviction hasn't changed one bit. One of the best teams out there. Congrats on reclaiming 100 @MadLadsNFT!
1/3 Woke up feeling MAD so FOCK IT. For all of first 3 months 100% of Tensor fees collected on Mad Lads will be used to SWEEP LADS off the floor. 🧹. Loyal Tensor traders will get AIRDROPPED MAD BOXES, which will act as raffle tickets for dem swept Lads. 🎟️. FOCKING DETAILS 👇🧵
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You mean you panicked because your users were not happy and added extra 2.5%? . How are you not ashamed ? . Also, ME is a few billion company and top app in crypto . Tensor is just a Solana NFT trading tool.
You mean you panicked because your users were not happy and added extra 2.5%?. How are you not ashamed ?. Also, ME is a few billion company and top app in crypto. Tensor is just a Solana NFT trading tool.
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after almost 5 years in crypto I think that stablecoins is crypto's most important product. US should be running in front of everyone putting in place reasonable regs for all stablecoin issuance to happen here. it's literally 10-1000x'ing the dollar.
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You are one good decision away from landing on an exponential curve that will change your life forever. Optimize for serendipity.
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Nothing is more important to us than what our users think. ❤️. Want a SPL-free homepage? You got it. 🫡. Apologies if the SPL mania rubbed anyone the wrong way. Was never the intention to offend - just to push the boundaries of what's possible. 🙏. Tensor is for the community.
@tensor_hq @_ilmoi . We you request create a separate dashboard for SPL20 Tokens . It’s bothering the NFT Vibes & looks so spammy.
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Had to fomo in - too much interesting stuff coming out of @DeGodsNFT (haircut may or may not be me age 14). Thx @cryptonent for inspiration ❤️
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Today we've announced a few changes to the points program to reduce bad behaviors. Nobody is perfect, but we're trying to do the right thing.
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Soooo I'm starting to realize @solana will soon have the perfect trifecta of art projects:. ✅ 3D art = @Claynosaurz .✅ Anime art = @MadLadsNFT .✅ Pixel art = @tensor_hq's Tensorians by @zen0m. the only question that remains is, wen art leak? :)
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Why @solana? This is why. I remember choosing to build on @solana 3 years ago for a simple reason: devs actually gave a shit. They were die-hards who wanted to write clean, functional code. I just didn't see it in any other eco. Everything else was grants-funded short-term.
Introducing: Steel. Steel is a new modular framework for building smart contracts on Solana. Write programs with minimum boilerplate and maximum flexibility. 🧵
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we're told life is all about steady progress - it's not. it's actually about the 2-3 lucky breaks that change everything. right opportunity.right cofounder.right romantic partner. whatever the fuck you do -- don't miss them.
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fuk, this got me thinking. on Eth all NFT marketplaces are permissioned coz listings are offchain. @solana is onchain but some marketplaces cosign. if all marketplaces didn't cosign. the design space that uniquely opens up on @solana is 10x bigger v eth. man I want this future.
The only way for Solana to become #1 is if all NFT protocols are permissionless. Challenge to @MagicEden: remove your co-signing. Let's grow the pie together, not fight for the scraps.
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Thank you everyone for participating in the mint today ❤️. What a journey. Team has been working around the clock. We built a ton of stuff, learnt a ton of stuff, and ofc fucked up a ton of stuff (not without it). But it's all worth it. And now the real fun begins. Notis on 🔔.
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These guys backed us when nobody else would. Ever since they supported us in every way possible - intros, advice, liquidity, anything we asked for. I cannot recommend Shoe enough. On a scale of 1 - 10, they're a 100. If you're a founder and want an intro, DM me.
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If you’re not a @VECTORDOTFUN maxi yet then. 1. You’re wrong and will stay poor.2. See point one.
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it's funny. when you're a wannabe founder you think: starting is the hardest part. once you have users it'll be easy. yea. it actually becomes worse. Much much worse.
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❓ Questions at the end of the interview. ❓. I am SHOCKED by how few candidates ask good questions, or frankly ask ANY questions at all. If you're serious about a job, how are you not DYING to at least ask:.- what will I work on.- what's the day to day.- what's the org setup.-.
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What's your contribution to @solana's ecosystem?. Could be anything: OSS code, helping others, bringing in users, or just calling out @aeyakovenko's chadness. Post below 👇👇👇 . Tensor Scholarships to the most loyal @solana degens!.
Hey @SlorgoftheSlugs, thanks for keeping Solana NFT degens safe. We'd like to offer you to become a Tensorian scholar! DM me your wallet ⚛️⚡️.
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