The gap between success and failure is so small.
A friend built a billion dollar company. Then he was fired by his board, and in 8 months the new CEO drove the company into the ground. He got nothing.
Another friend called me crying a few years ago. He couldn't even pay the
Never thought I'd see my Ape on a beer can. Have I made it?🤯😂
Congrats to
@BoredBrewingCo
for bringing Apes + $APE into our lives.
And congrats to
@thankape
+
@apecoin
fam for slaying it daily.
Badass community happens one day... err, beer... at a time!❤️
#thriveprotocol
Don't buy a PFP because it's iconic.
Collaborate with incredible, brilliant, badass people to create something so significant and meaningful that your PFP becomes iconic.
#ThankApe
#ApeCoin
#ThriveProtocol
Recently, a client of
@thriveprotocol
said to me: "every person on your team has such a beautiful heart."
I felt happy she noticed too. That's job requirement
#1
for Thrive.
We've gone from 0 to $30M+ in annualized treasury allocations, and grown to 150,000+ contributors in 18
One of the biggest problems in crypto is that most people can't distinguish momentum from value.
Momentum, in Newtonian mechanics, is the product of the mass and velocity of an object. In crypto, it's the appearance of a token price going to the moon, accompanied by lots of
During a recent partner call, my two year old opened the office door, climbed up my chair and onto my shoulders. She stayed there for the rest of the meeting.
I kept a straight face. They did too.
Way better than a hat!
#CEOintraining
,
#cryptointern
,
@thriveprotocol
Years ago, I received strange advice from a mentor:
"The closest people in your life tend to find you near your lowest moments. Most of the others will only want the highlights. That's just how it goes..."
Fast forward a few decades.
I've had a wild life.
I've won
Earlier today, a partner at a large investment firm asked me about the secret to our success at
@thriveprotocol
.
"You've had enormous growth through a bear market and, now, ongoing market uncertainty.... with no shilling, no parties, essentially no marketing at all... none of
When young entrepreneurs ask me how to build a strong crypto project, I typically say:
Close your eyes. Tap into what moves you. Consider how it makes money. Build that.
It's not a get-rich-quick scheme.
But it is value.
And crypto needs more value!❤️
#thriveprotocol
Here's what I know about big life (and crypto) moments:
Sometimes they need grit and tenacity.
Sometimes they need wild creativity.
Sometimes it's love and care.
Sometimes it's shit luck.
Whatever it is, the moment is always a surprise.
All these years, and "whoa!"💜
Today: Few earn a living in crypto. Most do it via financial arbitrage (e.g. staking, trading, airdrop hunting, etc). This isn't sustainable😟
Tomorrow: Many earn a living in crypto. Most do it by creating value for communities they love. This is sustainable❤️🔥
#thriveprotocol
I once heard that the difference between a good artist and a great artist is five brush strokes. But those are the boldest, riskiest, hardest strokes to make. So most good artists never make them.
I've been talking with my team a lot about having the courage to make the bold
What f-word is the real innovation of crypto?😆
freedom?
flexibility?
financial arbitrage?
I say it’s f... fairness❤️
With crypto, it doesn’t matter who you are. Create value for your community and get paid fairly.
Fairness means you can play too! that changes everything.🕺
The only message crypto people are consistently attracted to is:
"Get rich. I swear!"
But usually when community forms around... blah... to get rich:
❌Most lose money.
❌Some get rugged.
✅A few (mainly the same ones) get richer.
Time to change the game!💙
Think about the most personally valuable moment in your life. How much did it cost?
For me, the answer was $0. Whole life changed. The cost was nothing.
It just took one person who believed to change everything. I wonder how common that is🤔
----
There are ~29 million developers in the world. ~99.9% of them don't work in crypto.😮
Here's why: crypto hasn't convinced most great devs that a) they can change the world, and b) they can be fairly paid for it.🙈
Let's change that!❤️
@thriveprotocol
@thankape
@thankarbitrum
When I was 14, I faced a huge life decision.
So I sat alone on a beach.
A friend found me & drew a ⏹️ around us in the sand.
"In the next ten minutes, you'll know.”
We didn't say a word in those ten minutes.
But the friend was right. I knew.
..that's the power of
I asked five non-web3 friends to share the first two words they think of when they hear the word "crypto":
"Pyramid scheme"
"Sam Bankman-whatever"
"Bitcoin and the dog coin"
"Pyramid scheme"
"Fake money"
Houston, we have a [branding] problem!🫢
Crypto for some: trade + profit = lambo
Crypto for others: freedom + fairness = hope
Crypto for still others: chaos + danger = no thanks
Etc...
Crypto can be a mirror into our souls - reflecting wild ambitions, beautiful dreams, painful fears, and more. We get to decide what
My six-year-old daughter and I love to climb epic trees together. I dunno. It's a thing.🌳
Anyway, I noticed yesterday, as we were climbing a really big tree, how our technique changed:
1. Close to the ground, our movements were easy, confident, and fast.
2. Around 10 feet
Yesterday an old woman on the street called to me: "Paulo the florist..."
I shrugged and explained, "I'm not Paulo the florist..."
She interrupted. "You're so funny."
I smiled.
Another older woman approached us. "I'm so sorry. She's sick..."
The other woman softly and
One of those sweet moments in life is when we've been pondering something little or big and then
"Whoa! Of course. Yes!”
I love when I have big ideas
I love when you have big ideas
I love it more when we build them... together❤️
#ThriveProtocol
What’s your superpower?
I don’t mean the ability to walk through walls or travel backward through time. I mean the thing that makes you… uniquely, badass you.
I know you have one.
We all have one.
But oddly, many of us don’t know.
Or we know, but we're afraid to do anything
A moment ago, a colleague at
@thriveprotocol
asked me for advice about a girl he secretly likes.
My six year old daughter was with us. She butted in: "Tell the girl you want to marry her and she should marry you because you're nice."
I agreed. Let's see what happens.❤️🤣
A crypto friend about to be a dad asked, "how does life change?"
Before fatherhood: like putting $20 on BTC and letting it ride.😎
After fatherhood: like YOLOing your life savings into ShibaSwap, staking it in a rug pull farm, and praying to Satoshi. Every block is a... cosmic
We have a 30-day "splits" challenge at
@thriveprotocol
(winner gets an ugly 🏆).
I hate losing. So I've been "stretching" for 4 days.
Today, my 6-year-old saw me and laughed, "Dad, that's so easy!"
She then did a perfect split without even warming up (evidence below)... and
For the last 30 years, anyone: How are you?
My father: I'm dead tomorrow... so good today.
As a kid, it really bothered me when he said this. He's rarely been sick, and he's never had signs of impending death. Geez Dad, don't say that!
As an adult, I understand him better:
My family just woke up to our first
#earthquake
in Lisbon, Portugal. Trying to find info on it on X, but nothing. Maybe the whole family just collectively imagined it?🤔
#lisbonearthquake
?
#terramotolisboa
?
EDIT: It was real! And I got to give a dad lesson on tectonic plates🌍
I'm excited for our Thank APE proposal to be up for vote on Snapshot this week. It's especially meaningful to serve our
#ApeCoin
&
#BAYC
community!
The bottom line: Thank APE drives enormous utility to ApeCoin by rewarding people who make valuable contributions to our DAO!🔥
@halina_eth
Thanks!❤️🔥
Thank APE is important infrastructure for ApeCoin DAO: we auto-reward decentralized, value-creating contributions!
Our team is so excited to help create enormous value for our ApeCoin & BAYC community.📈
Thanks for your support!
6 hours left to vote on this week's AIPs!!
Thank Ape (AIP-124) is especially inspiring to me, and after seeing what the
@thrivecoinhq
team has done for DAOs like Bankless and working with the team, I truly believe in the proposal's power to inspire DAO members & create value 💖
@BeautyMatter
thanks for inviting me to give the keynote. Wonderful people, big hearts & badass brands!❤️🔥🚀
Always a pleasure to educate extraordinary leaders about how they can leverage web3 to create immense value for their brands 🦒🕺
Now, if only my pants could be redder!🟥
We've been asking DAO leaders what they'd like to improve in their communities. So far:
> more contributions
> clarity of roles
> quality of engagement
> sustained engagement
> operational efficiency
> incentive mechanisms
...what are we missing?
#web3community
#crypto
#web3
Rewarding people for the contributions they make to their
#web3
communities increases the frequency, quality and diversity of future contributions.💥
DM to learn more about
#thrivecoin
's vision.
Since June 2012, the value of
#bitcoin
is up 369,550%. Crypto crashes need context. There have been many. Yet the macro-trend of
#crypto
and all of
#web3
continues: greater adoption, utility, and value.
I too am excited to be partnered with my friend,
@alexmccurryo
and
@Solidityio
. They are doing important work in the web3 world. This is just the start of 🔥and meaningful impact together!
We are so excited! After a week and over 5 million votes registered, the results are in: The ApeCoin community has voted in favor of our Thank APE proposal!
Thank you for your believe in us!❣️
We're excited to host an AIP-124 Thank APE AMA Friday. You'll learn everything there is to know - with space for questions, feedback, and brainstorms. We'd love to see you there!❤️🔥
The spaces will be hosted by
@BoredApeG
,
@halina_eth
&
@thrivegiraffe
!🤩
So many people have bailed in the last few weeks.
Good on you for sticking it out. You can reap the rewards soon.
Raise your hand if you're still here!
@ChastenHamilton
(aka Ap3father), thanks! You've been wonderful to collaborate with. You lead with your ❤️ and fight for what you believe in!
I'm so excited for the opportunity to soon create immense value and utility for all members of ApeCoin DAO with Thank APE. We're close🤞