Founders

Fascinated with the puzzle that is modern society

Msg for founders:

Venture capital is not an efficient market. Once you let go of that you’ll be less frustrated.

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

/opacity

and

/eulerlagrange

Crowdfunding feels like the most efficient market to me because you’re asking people whose stake is in the product, not the investment return, to fund the thing.

There is a information dissymmetry that can cause issues.

If the crowd is sophisticated enough to DD than yes, but usually they’re not

Fair point. I think this is true of all forms of funding except self funding or partnerships (or acquisition). What is your take as to the preferred approach?

I have an article on this exact problem, except it’s framed toward hiring.

https://paragraph.com/@eulerlagrange/the-people-first-perspective-in-hiring

The generalized approach of this article is what you’re asking

Opacity

That’s really impressive. Honestly I’m not surprised either. Seems like you’ve built an environment where people aren’t afraid to be themselves. I think that goes a long way. Additionally, and I’ve felt this way since you first told me about the project, in my DMs before it had a name or you’d announced it officially at least: this is an idea that has legs and I think the kind of people serious enough to apply and get hired, want to see it through.

1 yr ago /opacity was 3 ppl.

It’s 24 rn.

My proudest statistic is 0% attrition. No full time person has left.