Matt O Brien
@mattob_eth
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providing exit liquidity since 2021
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Joined February 2020
"NFTs are dead" please zoom out
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as Brian said in the post below “action produces information” IMO, it was a worthwhile experiment to run to see if creator coins was a viable alternative to the existing social networks but I personally don’t see this use case brining 1B people onchain
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really interesting question from @brian_armstrong personally, I would love to see the base app become “a better bank account” right now, I use @Revolut it’s a great product, but I earn 0% interest on the cash I have in my Revoult account additionally, I get 0% interest on
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Google’s venture portfolio is incredible: > Invested $900M in SpaceX in 2015, owns 7% - 7.5% = $105B - $112B based on a $1.5T target IPO valuation. > Invested $10B in Waymo, owns 80% = $88B based on latest $110B valuation. > Invested $3B in Anthropic (2023–2025), owns 14%
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This "EtherRock" NFT just sold for $265,533. Time for the fed to increase rates again?
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If SpaceX goes public at a $1T valuation, who are the biggest winners? > Elon Musk (founder) invested $100M in 2002, owns 42% = $420B > Founders Fund (Peter Thiel), invested $20M in 2008, owns 1.5% - 3% = $15B - $30B > Valor Equity Partners, invested $76M+ in 2008, owns 1.3% =
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Google Co-founder Sergey Brin got bored on his $450M superyacht, came out of retirement and added $2.35T to the $GOOG market cap.
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Gm I feel like if you are bringing them to our playing field and our home town they should be trying to learn our language Our native tongue is crypto. Period. I think that the most successful sales at the art fairs were the ones that onboarded people fully to first buy
seeing some chatter today around opensea's decision to default to USD prices. let me share a few thoughts. first, you can always swap back to crypto with the flip of a switch. so anyone who prefers seeing pricing in crypto of course still can. perhaps there are ways we can make
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slightly surprised OS is making these mistakes as it wouldn’t take much feedback to realize dollar denomination makes NFTs seem expensive
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The #1 mistake Web3 companies make is “building for the masses” as opposed to improving the experience for the people already here. Sure, it sounds smart to make dollars the default denominator on OS as “new people” will understand this better, but if you piss off the people
seeing some chatter today around opensea's decision to default to USD prices. let me share a few thoughts. first, you can always swap back to crypto with the flip of a switch. so anyone who prefers seeing pricing in crypto of course still can. perhaps there are ways we can make
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"Oh no, Big NFT tricked an Art Bsel visitor into buying a conceptual art NFT" "Oh no, was it the $200K he was going to use for his down payment on his house?" "Even worse! He could have bought $37 of croissants with it"
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Jake Paul could be one of the best performing venture investors of the last 10 years: > Invested in Ramp Seed round in 2019, now valued at $32B. > Invested in Chronosphere seed round in 2019, acquired for $3.35B in November. > Invested in Anduril $8.48B series E in December
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NEW IN: National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates at its meeting next week. Market odds of a Fed Dec cut are now at 93%.
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Meta's total investment in Reality labs: $70B Value of this meme Zuck delivered: Priceless
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we're hiring a comms lead for @base if you're good at comms and care about growing crypto, we want to talk to you great opportunity to have a big impact
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NEW IN: OpenAI Chief Research Officer confirms Mark Zuckerberg made homemade soup and hand delivered it to OpenAI staff members in order to recruit them to Meta.
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"An NFT is just a receipt." What if the receipt itself is an artwork? @jackbutcher ➡️ https://t.co/ZMIGGFNHYI
THE DAM SHOW: ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH - ZERO 10!
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