In the last month, my twitter feed has experienced an epic takeover of tweets around web3, DAOs, and the metaverse. Many enterprise investors who were all in on dev tooling just weeks ago are now fully in the โcrypto rabbit hole.โ
And here is why itโs different now versus 5 years agoโฆ
This past week, the Network Solutions of Ethereum addresses just did an airdrop of tokens (award free tokens to early users/contributors) and created quite a buzz. As for myself, I bought my own ENS address just weeks ago and was airdropped $11k which is now worth about $15k. You can find me at edsim.eth
While everything in infrastructure land wonโt be turned into a coop or DAO, it is something important to pay attention to because I truly do believe what can be Web3-ed will be.
Example - Discord
But Josh Elman brings up a great pointโฆ
We went down this ๐ฐ hole back in 2017 looking for a there there at the intersection of crypto and enterprise. So we started an enterprise blockchain accelerator with IBM (creators of Hyperledger blockchain) and Comcast (investing in the future).
And after meeting over 1500 โenterpriseโ blockchain companies, we (cofounded with Rob Bailey, Eliot Durbin and myself) were fortunate enough to invest in infrastructure and analytic cos like Blockdaemon, Fireblocks, and Amber Data. What we concluded was as much as supply chain and couponing and other use cases sounded super cool and relevant, databases for the most part worked just fine. In addition, IBM and hyperledger fabric blockchain is pretty much dead - no one wanted to take part in a company led revolution versus one led by the people. Ultimately, the real killer app we discovered back in 2017 is digital money and hence blockdaemon (now the largest independent node operator and staking platform), Fireblocks (leading digital asset and custody software), and Amber Data (cryptocurrency APIs to run your business) all in the portfolio. This next wave with DAOs and NFTs is going to be quite exciting so if youโre building anything infrastructure related (auth, security, privacy, off chain stuff), Iโd love to chat.
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Scaling Startups
๐ฏ but sequencing matters
Go slow until you have a great product. Then go fast. The economic efficiency gains from a great product compound everywhere. If you go fast too early, you will fail. Once you have nailed product, go so fast that it scares everyone. If you donโt go fast enough, you will fail.@laserlikemike ๐ฏWith all of these preemptive rounds, founders will need to make sure that they don't believe their own hype. U can't skip steps to product market fit. Hiring more sales reps won't help you find it faster, only ๐ฅ ๐ฐ. Stay the course, build the right way, don't prematurely scale.Ed Sim @edsimJust ship it
How Jeli startedโฆLearning from incidents community
Enterprise Tech
๐ช๐ผ so ๐ฅ up for @Boldstartvc to partner with @cloudqueryio, the #OSS cloud asset inventory powered by SQL, enabling developers to assess, audit, and monitor the configuration of their cloud assets.
AWS moving up the stack to app layer - they are busy, for sure, getting ready to put a M&A machine in motion - will need to buy their way into this IMHO
โMr. Selipsky said Amazon Web Services plans to maintain its lead by offering more applications that can help organizations take advantage of the cloud. For example, it has developed a cloud tool that uses artificial intelligence to digitize and categorize physical documents, and another that monitors the health of the expensive equipment used in the agriculture and energy industries.
โ Weโre still probably not close to where customers need us to be at the end of the day,โ said Mr. Selipsky, who became chief executive of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, in May. โWe need to build a lot of services. We need to build a lot of capabilities.โ
The modern data stack according to Battery Ventures
Why this revolution is different
and sounds a lot like #OSS culture to meโฆ
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