• A few nuggets. Didn’t like how little respect they seemed to have for their audience - “it’s a game” etc. Seems short sighted if 1. You’re explicitly calling out mainstream media for the same kind of “clickbait” tactics and 2. Your stated long term goal is to teach 100 million people (I think that’s Shaan’s goal).
• Two content buckets - generous expert or curious novice

Found myself less interested in the subject matter than I used to be, but still enjoy the craic between the three

• Guest writer - Gojo - examines on-chain data. 10x-ed portfolio in 2021.
  • Betting on avalanche: All metrics very strong
  • Platypus: Curve of Avalanche
  • Crabada - P2E, paid out >$50m
  • Defi Kingdoms
  • Luna ("bullish on the decentralized stablecoin narrative and the founder"

• Dharmesh’s situation is super interesting -building a huge company but has never had any direct reports, and has amassed probably >$1b equity value.
• “The power of building a diagnostic tool for your industry is immense” - relative (vs absolute) scores work

• Theory of who is Satoshi - Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, NSA
• Dan personally knows 10 billionaires
• The Tether stable coin issue - seems less of a worry than previously thought (they’re agreeing to be audited) - only really addresses whether it could bring down Bitcoin or crypto, as a systemic risk, doesn’t say much about whether it could bring down Tether which would still be very bad for lots of people.
• We should reach out to Dan - interested in growth marketing and creator economy, and flesh out his Atlas creator profile.
• Lots of really good stuff about creators and consumers on Twitter
• Start with quantity over quality then do quality later - platforms reward consistency.
• Interesting - James Altucher has super successful newsletter biz
• YouTube is probably funnest creator platform
• Lazer eyes meme - no one knows who originated it
• Memes are the internet native communication
• Creator economy is multi trillion dollar opportunity

• Atlas idea - if we can get people to follow users and topics, use email. Use exclusivity to get people posting