In all seriousness: 1. Spend roughly a decade in Silicon Valley working and building a network 2. Spend nearly 2 years bootstrapping and making public progress 3. Raise money based on network and progress. Network order of magnitude more important. Maybe 2.

Excited to share that Neynar is acquiring Farcaster from Merkle. This means we will now maintain the Farcaster protocol, run the Farcaster client and operate Clanker. As part of this change - @dish and part of the Clanker team will be joining Neynar. @neynar is the software platform for the @farcaster ecosystem. A