I wrote this a long time ago back when the DoJ charged Nate Chastain. I thought it was rather sad. Poor Nate Chastain. Wrong place, wrong time? What did he do? Well he basically had insider knowledge on which coins Coinbase was going to list next and used a bunch…

Misunderstood genius or degenerate gambler? — I followed Su Zhu’s story with great interest. I first heard of him at least 1.5 years ago when I was going down the crypto rabbit hole. He, along with many others, had a cult of personality, and was like a warlord. And Crypto Twitter was his battlefield. And boy…

There are some things in life you really would not expect someone to do it in real life. Like re-creating fictional things that we all know and love. Simply because they are impractical, extremely costly and very laborious to do so. That is exactly what Mr Beast the YouTuber did. …

I been gone for a few weeks and look what happened to the wild, whacky, whizzy world of Crypto. Was with my StartupX crew touring the US to meet potential investors, interesting founders and learning about the US ecosystem. Was really awesome and stay tuned for more of my learnings…

If you don’t believe in startups, you don’t believe in innovation. And if you don’t believe in innovation, you will not have a place in progress tomorrow. Everything that we see and hear about in the realm of successful business, stems from people creating. Creating, building, constructing, devising, doing things…

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is…

I think the bottoms-up approach for innovation in corporations is impossible. Or at least inexorably, incredibly difficult. Let me explain why the bottoms-up approach rarely works in corporate setting. Now corporations can’t act like startups. They can try, but its more lip-service than anything. Its like Gorilla trying to play…

I think the bottoms-up approach for innovation in corporations is impossible. Or at least inexorably, incredibly difficult. Let’s understand what’s the differences between top-down and bottoms-up approaches to innovation in both corporations and startups first. In most successful corporations, top-down management is standard fare. The corporation has hundreds if not…

Bear markets brings out the best and worst in people. Headlines are screaming “recession”, “downturn”, “apocalypse” and “death” daily. But we aren’t talking about crypto, scams, crashes and burns today. Today I have a little tidbit for all of you. Nothing much. Just wanted to tell y’all that the “Cash…