Thursday, September 15, 2022
Putin
Life Is an Accident of Space and Time
Why the U.S. Is Being Ominously Compared to Hungary and Turkey A conversation with Max Fisher, who covers the decline of democracy around the world.
Opinion: Putin is fooling no one -- certainly not Xi In Samarkand, Putin will undoubtedly keep up his triumphant, self-assured demeanor -- but that will fool no one, certainly not Xi, who must be deeply worried about the astonishing collapse of Russia's forces in northeast Ukraine....... Not only is Russia humiliated, Ukraine exuberant, and the West united, but even China, which still expresses support for the Kremlin, is making statements that embarrass Russia. ........ Russia confirmed Xi and Putin would meet on the sidelines of the summit for "very important" talks. China has confirmed Xi's trip, but its foreign minister on Tuesday declined to confirm a meeting with the Russian president. ........ The relationship between Xi and Putin was never one of equals, but now Putin is encountering Xi during one of the most disastrous moments of his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. He will likely seek more support from Xi, who has been generous with words but much less with deeds. ......... China has been reluctant to break the sanctions, or step in to provide a major boost to Russia's dwindling military supplies. If it had, Putin could have avoided the awkward spectacle of seeking weapons from Iran and North Korea, minor, if aggressive powers. .......... Putin needs Xi much more than Xi needs Putin, and that imbalance has grown far greater since their last meeting. ........ he Russian president's suppression of all criticism about the war has taken an expected turn. Those who opposed the "special military operation," have gone to prison, exile or have mostly fallen silent. But now some of the war's most vocal supporters are fuming, enraged by the military's poor performance. (They even call it a "war" -- a word that could not previously be uttered without some consequence.) ........... A strongman cannot afford to be weak, and Putin knows it. ........ For now, there's no chance that Beijing will discard its unofficial alliance with Moscow, even if Russia is a greatly diminished power. Xi wants to be the leader of a global front opposing the US-led liberal democratic order. To do that, he needs to line up support from nations large and small. And Russia remains an important, nuclear-armed nation. ........... Next month, China's Communist Pary will hold its twice-a-decade party congress. Xi, China's most powerful figure since Mao, is expected to secure an unprecedented third term amid a sharp economic slowdown, made worse by his extreme zero-Covid policy. The possibility of a global recession, heightened by Russia's gas wars against Europe, would hit export-reliant China very hard.
Why the U.S. Is Being Ominously Compared to Hungary and Turkey A conversation with Max Fisher, who covers the decline of democracy around the world. ....... That democracy is declining more or less everywhere now. Not necessarily in every country but in every region, in rich and poor countries, old and new democracies. And the decline is incremental but steady, which means that the scale of the change isn’t necessarily obvious until you start looking at the data. ......... What happens is more like what has occurred in Venezuela, say, or Turkey or Hungary. Elected leaders rise within a democracy promising to defeat some threat within, and in the process end up slowly tearing that democracy down. ......... more democracies are in decline today than at any other point in the last century. .......... The United States fits pretty cleanly into what is now a well-established global pattern of democratic backsliding.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
12: Tucker
Here's some candid advice on this topic from my experiences bootstrapping vs raising capital with my past startups and now with @microacquire. pic.twitter.com/73az710q3S
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) July 12, 2022
Fair Tale in Moscow :) pic.twitter.com/JXISbVYVxm
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) July 11, 2022
🇮🇳💪 pic.twitter.com/htFa640Q5l
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) June 5, 2022
Salute of Victory in Moscow 🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/dOJOX4qesh
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) May 9, 2022
Interesting fact 👌 pic.twitter.com/vSAVP39OGN
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) April 21, 2022
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) April 9, 2022
Five stages of grief are :
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) April 8, 2022
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Paying in rubles
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) April 5, 2022
Why was everyone silent when the West made wars pic.twitter.com/Pgsq3kQnFJ
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) April 4, 2022
Fair enough. But this is actually a case against the war in #Ukraine.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) July 12, 2022
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) April 1, 2022
Truly impressive. Russia is an intellectual superpower. Tolstoy, @Kasparov63 etc. https://t.co/HAppdDXblh
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) July 12, 2022
April fool is for boys,
— Yulia Kapoor ॐ ASTROLOGER (@KapoorYulia) April 1, 2022
We ladies don't lie or cheat 😁#AprilFoolsDay
You can say since you have him on mute.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) July 12, 2022
5/8/23 Update: Goshen (NY) puts Third World corruption to shame, thanks to greedy, corrupt, unethical lawyers like Andra Dumais. ..... I toppled a Third World dictator and German Radio called me Robin Hood On The Internet. I am not going to get intimidated by some small-town racist. Andrea Dumais is a small-town racist. ....... You are treating me worse than the people 2,000 years ago.
Saturday, June 18, 2022
18: China, India, Russia
This tweet has been brought to you by management fees 🥂
— jordi.eth (@jordihays) June 18, 2022
Leaders must communicate that it’s OK not to respond to things in real-time, that it’s OK to decline meeting requests, that it’s OK to turn off notifications, and that it’s OK to not be online all day. https://t.co/xAtXBQeaJb
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) June 18, 2022
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. #dalle2 pic.twitter.com/3WVsKMajnk
— Carlos E. Perez (@IntuitMachine) June 18, 2022
If your long term Bitcoin investment thesis changes because of the price, you never understood Bitcoin
— Will Clemente (@WClementeIII) June 18, 2022
⚡️Dutch PM: War in Ukraine is ‘our war’.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 18, 2022
“Ukraine must win, that is really important. In any case, we must ensure that we do everything we can to bring them closer to that victory,” Mark Rutte said, as cited by the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
5/8/23 Update: Goshen (NY) puts Third World corruption to shame, thanks to greedy, corrupt, unethical lawyers like Andra Dumais. ..... I toppled a Third World dictator and German Radio called me Robin Hood On The Internet. I am not going to get intimidated by some small-town racist. Andrea Dumais is a small-town racist. ....... You are treating me worse than the people 2,000 years ago.
Saturday, June 11, 2022
11: VC, Russia
@nic_detommaso @OfficialBBrooks @lolitataub @galeforceVC @dunkhippo33 @MacConwell Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @katelin_cruse @mercebent @jslishi @JadynBryden @sarahmlvn
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
@NafisaIstami @sarah__lamont @miaannguyen @jackmmcclelland @NickFSimmons @_johnsonator @emilyhxrrera @paigefinnn @dorian_mccorey @zehranaqvi_ Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @theevanchen @alexchungtweets @ganeumann @Jai__Malik @sullydoesitall @CorinneMRiley @mayafrai @christinkers @dazayah @ben_grosse @DarrelFrater
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @godwinhschan @daniellebgraham @MacConwell @paigefinnn @jslishi @davegoldblatt @vibe_cap @gkm1 @MacConwell @lolitataub @BMagistretti @zehranaqvi_
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @mariarotilu @straighttalkeva @VivekKri @ReddyRima @zaydsyedali @JSNovaVC @kathryneallegra @nic_detommaso @rtenbrink1 @HannahGreyVC @WillowGrowth
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @MacConwell @lolitataub @myfriendjanine @OfficialBBrooks @DrJoyIppolito @iamnancyat @modelvc @meganbytes94 @MoniqueWoodard @tristanwalker
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @MacConwell @nic_detommaso @meaganloyst @kyanekassiri @cristina_laki @MacConwell @lilylyman @naayl__ @sujude @abbsthemighty
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @meaganloyst @miamishor @PozoFrankie @vaneezeh_s @emilyhxrrera @ericzhu105 @Zecca_Lehn @Dario_barcelona @enzocavalie@rayn_ong @NasirQadree @MacConwell
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @eleonorejarry @markellbaldwin @anneleeskates @darian314 @sorayadarabi @marinanicolah @EzraMoGee @HaleyKwaitZollo @emmamulticloud
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @itsmeeraclark @udhav_goenka @nanli @AGoulburn @zavaindar @JamesBarlia @WojtekWal @MeganMarieCain_ @emfritze @jaked_harris @mollywood @rypan
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch. @MichelleVolz @jess_mulvihill @emilyhxrrera
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 11, 2022
First day in SF and I got judged for saying a16-“ZED”
— Jen Zhang (@jenniferjyzhang) June 8, 2022
I can teach remotely. Will appear by video feed. Let's talk details over email. My first name at Gmail.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
Mind blowing how far @prtyDAO has come.
— d.mirror.xyz 🪞 (@Iiterature) June 9, 2022
It all began with a tweet, leading to a @viamirror crowdfund, a community-built MVP, and one of the most viral happenings of NFT summer.
Humbled to play a small early role and excited to see the team take it to the next level! https://t.co/N0ymDa6sR5
my mom just ended my life pic.twitter.com/FQKnc3B0w4
— Roshan Patel (@roshanpateI) June 9, 2022
This is universal. #feelbetter #feelthelove
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
Your first 50 customers need to be your first 50 advocates. They are royalty; treat them as such.
— Brian C. Long (@BrianCLong) June 9, 2022
Leadership is having the courage to consistently take actions that benefit others.
— Jacob Espinoza (@MrJacobEspi) June 9, 2022
the venture industry could use a little more curiosity, a little more punk, and a lot more diversity
— Sarah Guo 🌱 (@saranormous) June 9, 2022
i am worthless intellectually unless i spend 2 hours a day walking
— Will Manidis (@WillManidis) June 9, 2022
live footage of Twitter providing @elonmusk its raw data feed of 500m+ daily tweets pic.twitter.com/lyZPvuegAJ
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) June 8, 2022
If the average length of a tweet (minus headers) is ~100 bytes of text, that’s only 50GB. You could fit it on a USB stick.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2022
Putin has never pretended, not really. He lies all the time, but his intent to destroy Ukrainian statehood has been clear for 15 years. That Macron and others still want to negotiate with Putin when those are his terms is obscene. https://t.co/AffTGJ7KKl
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) June 9, 2022
news about Black folks starting their own funds, writing best selling books about startups, and raising millions of dollars in Series A rounds consuming my feed are the exact reason why i love this platform 😍
— Steph G. ☁️ (@Steph_Gaither) June 8, 2022
Obama White House? I was his first full time volunteer in all of NYC. #nowyouknow
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
Super Angel Steph ------ Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
Obama White House? I was his first full time volunteer in all of NYC. #nowyouknow
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
The company listens to employees, takes advantage of digital transformation, and taps its own data for insights.https://t.co/Wm1LS1VKrC
— MIT Sloan School of Management (@MITSloan) June 9, 2022
We all saw the impact of disinformation run rampant in the violent attack against America on January 6th.
— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) June 9, 2022
Power-hungry politicians want us to "move on." Trump Republicans betrayed their oath office.
We want accountability. #Jan6Justice pic.twitter.com/H40KmrIToa
5/ When he was at Bitcoin Magazine, Vitalik worked out of our office in Dec 2013. I remember him talking about early smart contract concepts. We made him an offer to be an intern at Ripple but couldn’t get the Visa sorted out, and he’d later speak at our first Swell conference. pic.twitter.com/aN4u3QBcsf
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
Offered an internship to Vitalik? Ha!
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
6/ 2013 - we piloted RipplePay, a functional credit card where you could use XRP to make everyday purchases, using the XRPL DEX to convert any currency in your XRPL wallet into USD. Unfortunately, no card network was willing to come within a 10-foot pole of crypto at the time. pic.twitter.com/2sy5cKTK9i
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
@ashgoblue You team up with me now, and I will topple Putin by Christmas. Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
5/8/23 Update: Goshen (NY) puts Third World corruption to shame, thanks to greedy, corrupt, unethical lawyers like Andra Dumais. ..... I toppled a Third World dictator and German Radio called me Robin Hood On The Internet. I am not going to get intimidated by some small-town racist. Andrea Dumais is a small-town racist. ....... You are treating me worse than the people 2,000 years ago.
Thursday, June 09, 2022
Asheesh Birla: Offered Internship To Vitalik
1/ After ~9 amazing years I’ve decided to wrap up my day job at @Ripple. Luckily, I’m not going far as I join the Board of Directors, where I’ll continue to provide input on company vision + strategy. I haven’t decided what’s next, but plan to continuing BUIDL in crypto :)
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
2/ In the past few days, I’ve had the chance to reflect on where we’ve come from and how much we’ve accomplished both as Ripple, and as an industry through some memorable moments and launches over the years.
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
3/ When I started…
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
Largest crypto exchange: Mt Gox vs Binance
Daily volume: $2m vs $70B
Market cap: $1.6B vs $1.3T
This is an early picture of the team in our first-ever office! pic.twitter.com/wVdBY7FySw
4/ 2013 – Within a few weeks of joining, Stripe tried to acquire us. Ultimately the deal fell apart shortly after this dinner at El Tepa Taqueria in SF, but who knows what crypto would look like today if Stripe had gotten into the industry in 2013. pic.twitter.com/8gjGjqu1Rv
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
5/ When he was at Bitcoin Magazine, Vitalik worked out of our office in Dec 2013. I remember him talking about early smart contract concepts. We made him an offer to be an intern at Ripple but couldn’t get the Visa sorted out, and he’d later speak at our first Swell conference. pic.twitter.com/aN4u3QBcsf
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
6/ 2013 - we piloted RipplePay, a functional credit card where you could use XRP to make everyday purchases, using the XRPL DEX to convert any currency in your XRPL wallet into USD. Unfortunately, no card network was willing to come within a 10-foot pole of crypto at the time. pic.twitter.com/2sy5cKTK9i
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
7/ When RippleNet first launched crypto liquidity in the market was too limited to support crypto-enabled payments at scale, so we laid the foundation for RN w/ fiat first, while continuing to iterate on a product that would also use crypto liquidity when the timing was right.
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
8/ In 2018, the timing was finally right for the first production ODL transaction (FKA xRapid). This was a huge milestone launching the first production cross-border use case that leveraged crypto at scale, despite lots of external skepticism.
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
9/ Also in 2018 - @hodges hosted an amazing crypto dinner in April with @twobitidiot, @DaveBalter, @GaryGensler and others. Selkis was a lot nicer in-person & Gary Gensler was interested in learning about the intersection of crypto and finance (🤔what happened?). pic.twitter.com/2aGgkrrZ8u
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
10/ Back to Ripple…I’m incredibly proud of the RN team as RippleNet continues to hit new milestones. In 2021, we previewed new alpha products like Liquidity Hub and RippleNet hit 1 billion in monthly volume. We’ve gone from 3 to 25+ payout markets for XRP-powered payments today.
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
11/ Lastly, I want to thank @chrislarsensf and @bgarlinghouse who gave me invaluable opportunities and many, many lessons learned along the way at Ripple. I’m honored to join the Board and continue being a part of the company. (Photo: Brad’s first day at Ripple) pic.twitter.com/zmsWtpazbq
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
12/ And finally to @MonicaLongSF – we started at Ripple in the trenches together just two weeks apart! I can’t think of anyone better suited to take the torch to lead the RippleNet team. pic.twitter.com/YgOkfgO4o3
— Asheesh Birla (@ashgoblue) June 9, 2022
I have just the thing for you. I just messaged you on LinkedIn.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
The unofficial Head of Snacks title carries over to the new Board seat, right? RIGHT? pic.twitter.com/jq9pqiys4U
— Ripple (@Ripple) June 9, 2022
@ashgoblue You team up with me now, and I will topple Putin by Christmas. Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 9, 2022
Thursday, May 12, 2022
May 12: News
BITCOIN CRASHING. Great news. As stated in previous Tweets I am waiting for Bitcoin to crash to 20k. Will then wait for test of bottom which might be $17k. Once I know bottom is in I back up the truck. Crashes are best times to get rich. Take care.
— therealkiyosaki (@theRealKiyosaki) May 12, 2022
You finally caught up with me.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Main fans gaya!
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
I did say PLEASE take a listen! Before I read this tweet. :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Following you now. #BeExplicit
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Jared Kushner's VC pitch deck is 100% mid & as afwul as you'd expect, a 🧵critique from an LP of Affinity Partners PPT
— Paul Griffiths .eth (@paul_griffiths) April 19, 2022
Read: I am Trumpie's s-in-l and he might RETURN! #areyouscarednow
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
You had me at hello. I followed just by looking. :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
When we ban books in schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we are of them dying. pic.twitter.com/sXASHkZk50
— Baratunde (@baratunde) January 29, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch. If you have not yet started angel investing, start now BAR.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
21h21
— jack⚡️ (@jack) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Free Speech And Just Society https://t.co/ZvZbZUABUW
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Aap to tweet pe tweet kiye ra rahe ho! :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Anyone building in the endometriosis/women’s hormones space? i’m sick&tired yall
— em herrera is in ny 🌃 (@emilyhxrrera) May 12, 2022
Running a pre-seed startup is so strange right now.
— Arjay Ruggles (🦊,💭) (@LifeWithArjay) May 12, 2022
My team and I are happily chugging along, building really cool shit, and have plenty of interest in our seed round.
Then I come on Twitter and everyone is losing their mind lmao.
Sahi baat.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
those buying bitcoin at these prices are legends
— Aubrey Strobel (@aubreystrobel) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
When I joined @coinbase in 2015, Bitcoin was $230
— Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi) May 12, 2022
Most of my friends and network thought I was strange for joining a Bitcoin wallet company
Crypto was definitely NOT sexy at the time
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussianWar
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
What are all the VCs that pivoted to Web3 going to pivot to this week?
— Jay Kapoor (@JayKapoorNYC) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
I like my men how I like my Bitcoin.
— Ellie Frost ❄️ (@EllieFrost) May 12, 2022
Over 30.
Well. You were looking at my deck. Email to karo! :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Russia's Democracy Movement will be tokenized. https://t.co/YaBK8rHUwV #russia #ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Russian #PutinWarCriminal #Navalny #alexeinavalny #UkraineRussia Please take a listen. This is my pitch.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
https://t.co/flVtACQXTM @PeterDiamandis
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
Will you bet on a horse or on a jockey. my bet is Jockey always. Same way i bet on founder more than the idea.#StartupSpace #startup #founders
— manish kumar (@manishk04730288) May 12, 2022
The Bay Area gets energized by downturns. Always has.
— martin_casado (@martin_casado) May 11, 2022
That's because the culture is rooted in innovation. And there is no better time to build.
East coast finance on the other hand has a hard time seeing past the markets.
Right now is a great time to be in tech!
Good god man!!!! $luna went from 80 dollars to 3 cents in 3 days!!! 🤮
— Lark Davis (@TheCryptoLark) May 12, 2022
I spent 3 years mainstreaming universal basic income. Now I’m going to spend at least that long mainstreaming open primaries, ranked choice voting and independent politics as the keys to breaking us out of a polarized duopoly and giving people a real choice and chance.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) May 12, 2022
They said, Buy the dip! Now?! pic.twitter.com/yrH4T6bqOG
— Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl (@dhruvdbahl) May 12, 2022
Now hold on to it.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2022
I rarely look at prices.
— Anish Agnihotri (@_anishagnihotri) May 12, 2022
I find it hard to imagine a world without crypto. It’s inevitable.
Find your conviction and you can bear any cycle.
BTC support at $20-22k is basically global for those of us who have been here a while. Previous cycle high, 200 week moving average, etc.
— Ryan Selkis 📖 🖊🔑 (@twobitidiot) May 12, 2022
Bend, but won't break (and if it does maximum pain).
Who knew there were so many versions of the United States?😏🗽🌎
— Parent Influence (@parentinfluenc1) February 24, 2022
#Bitcoin is the best hedge against #Inflation.
— Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) May 12, 2022
Since $MSTR announced its first BTC purchase August 11, 2020, bitcoin has appreciated 149%, outperforming Silver (-17%), Gold (-9%) Nasdaq (5%), S&P (18%), CPI (11.2%), M2 (19%), US Homes (28%), & PPI (33%).