It fuels me when people dismiss what I'm working on. Just means there's an opportunity others don't see yet. Many dismissed when I joined Coinbase in 2014. Feel the same joining Farcaster in 2025 with opportunity cost of running my own business. Take big swings when you see it :)

Developer ecosystem @farcaster, co-founder @bountycaster. Previously: co-founder of Scalar Capital, product at Coinbase, co-producer @ethereumfilm

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For sure, pretty common on crypto twitter

people are dismissing farcaster? very stupid thing to do

I love this! Reminds me of how Brian and Fred treated employees leaving  to start their own companies

Tech exec, board member, and advisor to startups and investment groups.  
Builds things.

thanks for the kind words linda!   great to read that thread you shared. 

i've always felt that it was a leader's responsibility to ensure your employees could move on to better things (if they desired) and worked to ensure that my actions and review process provides them with the foundation to move to where they want to in life.  

i've never understood people that held their employees back or resented them for leaving.

I love this! Reminds me of how Brian and Fred treated employees leaving  to start their own companies https://x.com/ljxie/status/1315132414398623745

i just had an employee leave for a leadership opportunity with a growing company and while he thought i would be upset (i wouldn't have), i told him that if he felt it was the right opportunity and didn't take it, then he'd regret it.

you don't know where the road will take you if you never start walking down the path.

Interested in human flourishing & social infrastructure

I think you and @pirosb3 are great additions to the Farcaster team.

Usually people that hate or criticize don’t have time to build their own stuff.

Most of the times bad energy is on them, not on you, even if they try and project it to you.

Are people judging you for leaving Bountycaster (at least full-time) or just for Farcaster in general?

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fwiw, I think Farcaster is one of the most exciting places to be rn. don't listen to the haters. there is a tremendous opportunity to build something lasting and very interesting, at a very important point in time. <3

nothing better than having a chip on your shoulder!

“Don't always go through that tiny little door that everyone is trying to rush through, maybe go around the corner and go through the vast gate that nobody is taking."

And afterwards same ones call you “lucky”

But THEY will be talking about YOU :)

💯 we both know ingenuity doesn’t grow within the confines of complacency.  Have to take those risk 🫂

Keep firing - if it was already perfectly understood and mainstream, there opportunity would have vanished.

seeing opportunity where others don’t is such a superpower