@itsbasil

>create syndicate to acquire app >app gets acquired by platform >syndicate builder tokens get burned >OG dry powder consumed >syndicate builders already at a loss >platform gets sold for parts >platform network collapses >full ecosystem churns out >platform network pivots out >syndicate incubations freeze >price collapses >builders get ridiculed >losses climb much higher >builders pivot into new networks >many builders sunset projects altogether >operator one finds new opportunity >commits, raises—ok must now pursue >operator two runs team of 25 engineers >needs to pad BD/book ahead of macro >Y U NO GUD PRICE if you look at bracky, opsys, sky, native, oink, etc. as scams, i encourage you to build and launch a token yourself the reality is that building a token is incredible hard and very rarely does it pay the bills ironically, and despite an ethos of decentralization, crypto builders deal with an incredible amount of dependencies: on-ramps, grants/fees, launchpads, wallets, networks, platforms, traders/macro—all can destroy you overnight as a day one liquid asset s/o clanker, emerge, betr and the rest who stuck it out but that is not always financially feasible for builders, particularly those full-time who have been trying to get something going for several years but must now find growth at the end of the day, people have families and obligations; they cannot continue down a road when that road no longer suffices as the singular way back home that is the risk we take; that is the risk you take no one forced you down our road, so if you think you can get home faster another way, i encourage you to go build that road no one is coming to tow you

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