@playfulpuffin
Mario: The first fund was established in January 2022, but we had been privately investing in Polkadot much earlier. What attracted me were the many crypto-related stories Max told me, and he even advised me to buy Ethereum in 2017, which was also a successful investment.
But when I heard the Polkadot story, I truly thought "Wow, this is different". Look, it has a very reliable founder Gavin, who was Ethereum's co-founder and CTO, wrote the technical whitepaper, built the Ethereum virtual machine, with solid technical background; his team is equally strong, and their vision is to create a system that can truly be implemented, serving real-world applications and ordinary people. This really moved me.