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After 2.5 years at @LayerZero_Core, I’m stepping away to build.
Grateful doesn’t begin to cover it. What a ride.
I joined as employee #50. When I left:
→ Grew to 150+ person team
→ Shipped V2 of the protocol (modular security, horizontal composability, etc)
→ Token launch at $3B valuation (a16z & Sequoia co-lead; first time ever)
→ Onboarded 700+ incredible partners (stablecoins, RWAs, chains etc)
→ Built Zero blockchain (100x improvements to network, storage & compute)
I fully believe LayerZero will be one of the most consequential blockchain companies in the world. @PrimordialAA, @ryanzarick, @caleb_banister, @Bakxys, & @MaybeMaxPower - thank you for setting the standard. To the team (and now friends) - wouldn't trade it for the world. To our partners and community - the relationships we have built are for a lifetime.
Now, a story most people haven't heard.
48hrs before LayerZero's TGE, the office was buzzing. It's 2am and the last thing I wanted to do was commute home just to come back 6hrs later. So naturally, I asked the new product guy (we’d known each other for a month), @0xmitvh, if I could crash on his couch 😂
2:30am, we're talking.
"The office energy is electric"
"The team is dialled"
Talking about how one day we wanted to build something the same way.
We agreed that night, whenever the time came we had an idea we were convicted on, we would drop everything and go all in.
Two years later, that moment arrived. And you best believe it was none else than for prediction markets.
But the experience right now isn't great.
Open any prediction market app today. You are hit with categories, subcategories, charts, order books. 40 cents, 60 cents. Pages of the "what" but never the "why." Give this to the regular joe and he's lost.
What if markets came to you based on your interests, before you even knew you cared? What if instead of charts and order books it was content; entertaining, informative and backed by real money?
That is what we are building.
Meet @pulsepredicts.
The Prediction Media Application.
Where Markets Are Media.
The world is going to consume information differently in the future. We intend to be the reason why.
;P
Grateful doesn’t begin to cover it. What a ride.
I joined as employee #50. When I left:
→ Grew to 150+ person team
→ Shipped V2 of the protocol (modular security, horizontal composability, etc)
→ Token launch at $3B valuation (a16z & Sequoia co-lead; first time ever)
→ Onboarded 700+ incredible partners (stablecoins, RWAs, chains etc)
→ Built Zero blockchain (100x improvements to network, storage & compute)
I fully believe LayerZero will be one of the most consequential blockchain companies in the world. @PrimordialAA, @ryanzarick, @caleb_banister, @Bakxys, & @MaybeMaxPower - thank you for setting the standard. To the team (and now friends) - wouldn't trade it for the world. To our partners and community - the relationships we have built are for a lifetime.
Now, a story most people haven't heard.
48hrs before LayerZero's TGE, the office was buzzing. It's 2am and the last thing I wanted to do was commute home just to come back 6hrs later. So naturally, I asked the new product guy (we’d known each other for a month), @0xmitvh, if I could crash on his couch 😂
2:30am, we're talking.
"The office energy is electric"
"The team is dialled"
Talking about how one day we wanted to build something the same way.
We agreed that night, whenever the time came we had an idea we were convicted on, we would drop everything and go all in.
Two years later, that moment arrived. And you best believe it was none else than for prediction markets.
But the experience right now isn't great.
Open any prediction market app today. You are hit with categories, subcategories, charts, order books. 40 cents, 60 cents. Pages of the "what" but never the "why." Give this to the regular joe and he's lost.
What if markets came to you based on your interests, before you even knew you cared? What if instead of charts and order books it was content; entertaining, informative and backed by real money?
That is what we are building.
Meet @pulsepredicts.
The Prediction Media Application.
Where Markets Are Media.
The world is going to consume information differently in the future. We intend to be the reason why.
;P
