Avichal - Electric ϟ Capital
@avichal
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Co-Founder @ElectricCapital Chairman @crypto_council Views are my own; DYOR
Bay Area / Singapore
Joined June 2008
> Be 22 y.o. > 1st time in NYC > Get lost on subway > Dream up Google Transit > Have no idea how hard it would be to build > Bunch of talented, naive people build in spare time (shoutout @chrishtr, @twephanie, @KatieS) > Grows to 1B MAU Naivety is a feature, not a bug
1/ In 2005, @avichal visited NYC and kept getting lost on the subway. Late to dinner and frustrated, he wondered: If Google Maps can route me anywhere by car, why can’t it get me on the right train? So on his flight home, he wrote the product spec for Google Transit. 🧵
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INFINIT partners with @Google and @GoogleCloudTech to bring agentic finance to millions. Anyone can access INFINIT's AI Agents for agentic coordination in their financial apps. This partnership marks the first step towards INFINIT becoming the universal infrastructure for
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Introducing Dawn – A fresh start for your money Dawn is a wallet purpose-built for bitcoin and stablecoins that helps you save and grow your money. Coming soon to iOS.
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RT @evanjconrad: What SF Compute does. When you finance a GPU cluster, you need to get an "offtake" agreement. Basically, someone has to…
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@ethereumfndn @ethereum We are excited to see EF producing insights from the Electric dev data directly! For context, we are running a pilot program giving researchers direct access to raw data pipelines behind https://t.co/jpCk8kV6XK. If you are interested in participating, please DM us.
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Learn more about @0xren_cf, his background in natural gas markets, the infra he's built at @ElectricCapital as an engineer, and his work with @monad, @KuruExchange, @solana, @ellipsis_labs, @untolabs and others. https://t.co/03G52Vj5wT
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Delighted to announce @0xren_cf has been promoted to General Partner at @ElectricCapital! Ren started as an engineer at Electric & has grown into a phenomenal investor and unique thinker. Founders are lucky to work with him. We are lucky to have him at Electric. Link below 👇
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Great analysis of global stablecoin usage using onchain timestamps
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SPC's newest Founder Fellows heard from special guests in the woods this week, including @avichal. And, made a few new friends. Now it's time to get building.
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Thank you @BrianQuintenz for your willingness to serve as the President’s nominee for the @CFTC. Brian would have been an exceptionally strong and principled leader for the CFTC, our industry, and our country—marked by integrity, conviction, deep expertise, and a clear
🚨BREAKING: On the White House withdrawing his nomination, @BrianQuintenz gave me this statement: “Being nominated to chair the CFTC and going through the confirmation process was the honor of my life. I am grateful to the President for that opportunity and to the Senate
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🚨 NEW FROM ETHZILLA 🚨 We are excited to share that ETHZilla plans to deploy ~$47 million worth of ETH into @puffer_finance - a liquid restaking protocol. This is our second engagement with DeFi protocols with more coming soon. The opportunity is $ETH. The ticker is $ETHZ.
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Honored to welcome @ETHZilla_ETHZ with a $47M ETH deployment into Puffer! A strong vote of confidence in our liquid restaking framework: 🐡 Security with 2 ETH validator bonds 🐡 High yields at scale 🐡 Fully permissionless This is how DATs grow with Ethereum. We remain
🚨 NEW FROM ETHZILLA 🚨 We are excited to share that ETHZilla plans to deploy ~$47 million worth of ETH into @puffer_finance - a liquid restaking protocol. This is our second engagement with DeFi protocols with more coming soon. The opportunity is $ETH. The ticker is $ETHZ.
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1/ You hired the wrong designer. I know because I’ve lived every angle of this: early Uber, Stripe, Shopify, founding my own startup, managing big design teams. Most bad hires aren’t bad designers. They’re just the wrong fit for the stage. Here’s the framework I use to get it
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🚨 ETHZilla updates 🚨 - ETHZilla raised an additional $350 million USD via new convertible debentures. - We repurchased an additional ~0.5 million shares at an average price of ~$2.41 each bringing total shares repurchased to 6.45 million. - ETHZilla continues to focus on
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Tokemak is now Auto Finance (new handle: @autopools) Tokemak is evolving into Auto Finance to reflect our mission: automating onchain finance. Staying true to its vision as core liquidity infrastructure, this brand consolidation unifies all products under one cohesive identity.
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Today, Wall Street found its Solmate. Solmate is brand new Solana infrastructure for the UAE. I’ll be its CEO. Aligned with the Foundation and backed UAE investors, Solmate will have unparalleled access to capital and will supercharge SOL-per-share growth for its
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3/ 🔥speaker lineup (more to come): • @milesjennings , Head of Policy & General Counsel, @a16zcrypto • @avichal, Co-founder & GP, @ElectricCapital • Grant Hummer, Co-founder of @Etherealize_io Expect sharp takes on what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s next.
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Great growth tactics from @thisisgrantlee Grateful to have been a seed investor
we grew from zero to $50M ARR in <2 years, profitably i've never publicly shared our tactics before it's cost us over $5M to learn what I'm about to share 800-word long post on every growth hack that printed money for us I'll cover: 1. Influencer Marketing 2. Performance
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ETHZilla is very focused on $ETHZ. We have $80 million that we are utilizing to buy back $ETHZ while it trades under NAV. We have authorization to do this with up to $250 million. The opportunity is $ETH. The ticker is $ETHZ.
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5/9 built a game to crowdsource the best prompts to solve puzzles. It's fun and with some interesting learnings, e.g. GPT-5 Nano beats GPT-5 at chess and is 10x cheaper
Excited to finally launch what I've been working on the past 3 months! Introducing Peval, a competition to see who can write the best prompts, and which models are the best at different evals come beat me: https://t.co/gloxw7Nrfk
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