What app has the best shot at bringing 1 million people onchain next cycle?

That’s the question I keep coming back to at Mask.

Here’s why I led the acquisition of @orb_club  — the dominant app for creators to bootstrap their communities (aka clubs) and go viral on Lenschain.

onchain m&a ~ @fireflyapp + mask network ~ @rara (exit 2023)

I’ve bought and sold companies in crypto since 2016.

2016 (purchase) - Crypto wallet for SynapseFI
2018 (purchase) - Broker Dealer for Tokensoft
2023 (sold RARA) - Onchain engagement for Mask

Growth doesn’t just mean product. Strategic growth comes through M&A.

Suji, founder of Mask, calls us the “Tencent of Web3” — building shared infra for a portfolio of consumer apps:

✨ Firefly[.]social – what’s trending across social + chain
🖖 Web3[.]bio – link-in-bio for your online + onchain life

We had the consumer.

But something was missing: the creator.

Since selling RARA[.]social to Mask, I’ve focused on growing Firefly[.]social and more recently Web3[.]bio.

The belief was simple:
We spent 10 years solving internet money.
Now it’s time for consumer social to drive the economy that runs on it.