Mike Furci
@fursigh
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Operations @artemis | Former @messaricrypto
Joined April 2020
Stablecoins are real… and we’re on Bloomberg! Thank you @business and Judy Lagrou for covering our recent stablecoin payments report with @dragonfly_xyz and @CastleIslandVC . Shout out to @ElBarto_Crypto for the awesome quote on stablecoin supply growth post GENIUS bill
Consumers and businesses are using stablecoins at an accelerating pace since the July passage of the first US legislation to regulate that niche of the cryptocurrency sector
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Stablecoin payments hit - $10.2B monthly - + 70% since Feb - + 137% YoY - Now at a $122B annual rate. Full report:
stablecoin.fyi
Comprehensive stablecoin market insights, and deep dives into the stablecoin ecosystem. Track stablecoin geographic activity and payments volume.
INTRODUCING: Part 2 of our Stablecoin Payments Report! Co-written with @CastleIslandVC and @dragonfly_xyz, with data now through August 2025. Stablecoin payments hit $10.2B monthly, up 70% since February and 137% since Aug '24, now at a $122B annual rate. Here’s how the market
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Sequoia's Chief Product Officer, @jesskah, won't hire well-rounded people. She looks for a "spikes" in 1 of 4 traits that predict success: • EQ: One-on-one people skills • IQ: Raw intellectual horsepower • PQ: Ability to navigate politics/systems • JQ: Judgment on decisions
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Welcome @fursigh! Let’s help crypto evolve into finance. LFG!
Please welcome @fursigh to Artemis! Michael joins Artemis as Chief of Staff / Operations, where he’ll focus on special projects and marketing. Prior to Artemis Michael spent four years at @MessariCrypto, where he focused on venture data, marketing, and GTM. He graduated from
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Please welcome @fursigh to Artemis! Michael joins Artemis as Chief of Staff / Operations, where he’ll focus on special projects and marketing. Prior to Artemis Michael spent four years at @MessariCrypto, where he focused on venture data, marketing, and GTM. He graduated from
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Wander
Jeff Bezos explains why “wandering” is essential for invention “Wandering is so important because wandering is a kind of humility,” Jeff Bezos begins. “Wandering sounds so inefficient, but the only way to go straight to your destination is if you know where you’re going.” Jeff
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Few know this but @shayne_coplan used to manually reach out to power users and ask how he could make the platform better. Most founders never do that.
back before @Polymarket had caught fire they would reach out to the community directly to give them codes to use the platform. they did all of the necessary work to grow organically and deserve all the success they’re achieving now.
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Focus on return on capital and return on time.
What can someone who's built multiple billion-dollar companies teach you? Some lessons from my conversation with Brad Jacobs: 1. If you get the major trend right, you can make mistakes and still succeed. 2. If you want extraordinary results, you can’t think like everyone else.
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1/ One of the most valuable things you can do for your career – whether you are an investor or a founder – is to see what “great” actually looks like.
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One of the most important things Michael Jordan ever said: “They’re deceiving themselves about what the game requires”
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Asked a few companies how they hire FDEs (forward deployed engineers). Head this article from @alexandr_wang referenced a few times as what worked well:
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Identification of the specific actions and attitudes relevant to your teams production and performance
Jack Dorsey on what he learned about culture from 49ers coach Bill Walsh When Bill Walsh joined the 49ers, they were the worst team in the NFL. Within three years, they were Super Bowl Champions. In his book, The Score Takes Care of Itself, he writes: “Winners act like winners
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Jack Dorsey: “When we started Square, we thought we were just building a piece of hardware” In his blog post Product First, David Sacks explains that the founding of Square—described by Jack Dorsey in the clip below—resembled his own experience at PayPal. Most people think
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yc taught me that pretty much everything in a startup is a shots on goal problem. not finding enough customers? you haven't done enough cold outbound. customers not loving your product? you haven't found your early adopters. once you understand this mindset, every failure just
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Stay healthy, get wealthy, seek truth, give love, and create beauty.
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