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E115: Phantom : How we built the most popular Crypto wallet with 15M+ users in just a few years! Brandon Millman is the CoFounder & CEO of Phantom, the most popular wallet in Crypto Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:02 Partnerships: Jupiter, Bitwise, SUI & Mantle 2:48 Building World's Best Crypto Wallet 4:44 Why Crypto Adoption Matters 5:48 Who is Brandon? 7:40 Dealing with Stress 9:50 From Twitter to Building Phantom 12:53 Self Custody with Trezor 13:46 Lessons Learned at Twitter 14:45 Crypto & Blockchain Fascination 21:51 Avoiding the Twitter Trap 23:17 What is 0X? 25:06 Lessons Learned at 0X 28:22 Wallet Experience as a Barrier 31:46 Failure to Prioritize Users 35:29 Product Market Fit First 37:48 Pragmatism Over Perfection 39:40 Building Phantom: Solana First 45:00 Why Solana First? 48:55 Building in Silicon Valley's Culture 53:32 Phantom Impact on Solana Success 56:00 Phantom’s User-First Approach 1:00:07 What is Phantom Wallet? 1:01:48 Solana’s Unique Narrative 1:06:08 Phantom’s Strategy to Dominate 1:12:44 Solana's Resilience Post-FTX 1:19:10 Facing Doubt in Crypto's Chaos 1:22:18 Building the Future of Finance 1:25:40 Top 5 in Global App Store 1:26:48 Global Reach 1:28:18 How Phantom Got Its Name 1:31:25 Why Phantom Raised $150M 1:33:38 Phantom vs. Robinhood 1:36:20 Edge Over Centralized Exchanges 1:40:26 Replacing Traditional Finance 1:42:02 Happiness 1:42:56 Prediction for the Next 24 Months 1:45:35 Concluding Remarks
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E115: Phantom : How we built the most popular Crypto wallet with 15M+ users in just a few years! Brandon Millman is the CoFounder & CEO of Phantom, the most popular wallet in Crypto Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:02 Partnerships: Jupiter, Bitwise, SUI & Mantle 2:48 Building World's Best Crypto Wallet 4:44 Why Crypto Adoption Matters 5:48 Who is Brandon? 7:40 Dealing with Stress 9:50 From Twitter to Building Phantom 12:53 Self Custody with Trezor 13:46 Lessons Learned at Twitter 14:45 Crypto & Blockchain Fascination 21:51 Avoiding the Twitter Trap 23:17 What is 0X? 25:06 Lessons Learned at 0X 28:22 Wallet Experience as a Barrier 31:46 Failure to Prioritize Users 35:29 Product Market Fit First 37:48 Pragmatism Over Perfection 39:40 Building Phantom: Solana First 45:00 Why Solana First? 48:55 Building in Silicon Valley's Culture 53:32 Phantom Impact on Solana Success 56:00 Phantom’s User-First Approach 1:00:07 What is Phantom Wallet? 1:01:48 Solana’s Unique Narrative 1:06:08 Phantom’s Strategy to Dominate 1:12:44 Solana's Resilience Post-FTX 1:19:10 Facing Doubt in Crypto's Chaos 1:22:18 Building the Future of Finance 1:25:40 Top 5 in Global App Store 1:26:48 Global Reach 1:28:18 How Phantom Got Its Name 1:31:25 Why Phantom Raised $150M 1:33:38 Phantom vs. Robinhood 1:36:20 Edge Over Centralized Exchanges 1:40:26 Replacing Traditional Finance 1:42:02 Happiness 1:42:56 Prediction for the Next 24 Months 1:45:35 Concluding Remarks

MR SHIFT 🦁

84,222 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

I asked a top 0.1% YouTube Strategist (Vexian - Algorithm Alchemist) to take me from 0 to 10m subscribers. This is every level of YouTube growth. 0:00 Education vs Entertainment 1:51 The Biggest Mistake New Creators Make 2:45 You Don't Need Gear You Need Reps 3:53 The One Thing That Guarantees 1K Subs 4:58 What Is the Impression Snowball 5:54 Consistency as Compound Interest 6:57 How to Come Up With Content Ideas 7:28 Track the Top 20% in Your Niche 8:18 Reverse Engineering Titles That Work 9:06 How to Remix Without Copying 10:00 Why People Actually Watch 11:30 90 Ideas in 30 Minutes 17:29 Level 2 (1K to 10K Subscribers) 21:00 How to Hook in 3 Seconds 24:40 YouTube Is a Zero Sum Game 25:11 Collabs and the Anchor Effect 26:48 Using Bigger Creators to Grow 28:21 What Separates Creators After 100K Videos 29:41 Consistency in Amount Type and Focus 30:05 How to Know When to Quit Your Niche 31:37 What Gaming YouTube Teaches Everyone 33:31 Storytelling From Minecraft YouTubers 34:22 Mini Stories and Escalating Stakes 37:47 Level 3 (10K to 100K Subscribers) 42:00 Package Your Video Like a Movie Poster 44:00 The Pre-Post Checklist 49:00 Seven Levels of Rapper and Viral Permutations 51:05 CTAs Where to Put Them and Where Not To 53:26 Subscribers Are a Vanity Metric 55:46 Replace Ad Reads With Your Own Content 58:49 Level 4 (100K to 1M Subscribers) 59:08 What Is Impact 1:00:01 Pattern Breaking and Absurdism 1:01:15 How to Title a Podcast for Absurdism 1:02:27 Melding Interest Topics Together 1:04:36 Parasocial Reciprocity 1:05:57 The Third Thing Nobody Talks About 1:06:05 What Is Sauce 1:08:20 How Long Does 100K Actually Take 1:09:31 When to Start Outsourcing 1:12:00 Your Niche Has a Ceiling 1:21:42 The Invisible Katana and 25M Views 1:23:27 One Word Across 5 Niches and 13 Years 1:25:38 What Channels Will Hit 1M 1:29:00 Level 5 (1M to 10M Subscribers) 1:29:34 Outlier vs Presence of Mind Ideation 1:30:50 Oppenheimer Barbie and the Minecraft Movie 1:38:00 Why the Best Channels Stop Growing 1:44:41 What Happens When You Beat YouTube 1:46:18 When You Become an Idea Not a Person 1:49:48 The Two Things That Actually Matter
1:52:04

I asked a top 0.1% YouTube Strategist (Vexian - Algorithm Alchemist) to take me from 0 to 10m subscribers. This is every level of YouTube growth. 0:00 Education vs Entertainment 1:51 The Biggest Mistake New Creators Make 2:45 You Don't Need Gear You Need Reps 3:53 The One Thing That Guarantees 1K Subs 4:58 What Is the Impression Snowball 5:54 Consistency as Compound Interest 6:57 How to Come Up With Content Ideas 7:28 Track the Top 20% in Your Niche 8:18 Reverse Engineering Titles That Work 9:06 How to Remix Without Copying 10:00 Why People Actually Watch 11:30 90 Ideas in 30 Minutes 17:29 Level 2 (1K to 10K Subscribers) 21:00 How to Hook in 3 Seconds 24:40 YouTube Is a Zero Sum Game 25:11 Collabs and the Anchor Effect 26:48 Using Bigger Creators to Grow 28:21 What Separates Creators After 100K Videos 29:41 Consistency in Amount Type and Focus 30:05 How to Know When to Quit Your Niche 31:37 What Gaming YouTube Teaches Everyone 33:31 Storytelling From Minecraft YouTubers 34:22 Mini Stories and Escalating Stakes 37:47 Level 3 (10K to 100K Subscribers) 42:00 Package Your Video Like a Movie Poster 44:00 The Pre-Post Checklist 49:00 Seven Levels of Rapper and Viral Permutations 51:05 CTAs Where to Put Them and Where Not To 53:26 Subscribers Are a Vanity Metric 55:46 Replace Ad Reads With Your Own Content 58:49 Level 4 (100K to 1M Subscribers) 59:08 What Is Impact 1:00:01 Pattern Breaking and Absurdism 1:01:15 How to Title a Podcast for Absurdism 1:02:27 Melding Interest Topics Together 1:04:36 Parasocial Reciprocity 1:05:57 The Third Thing Nobody Talks About 1:06:05 What Is Sauce 1:08:20 How Long Does 100K Actually Take 1:09:31 When to Start Outsourcing 1:12:00 Your Niche Has a Ceiling 1:21:42 The Invisible Katana and 25M Views 1:23:27 One Word Across 5 Niches and 13 Years 1:25:38 What Channels Will Hit 1M 1:29:00 Level 5 (1M to 10M Subscribers) 1:29:34 Outlier vs Presence of Mind Ideation 1:30:50 Oppenheimer Barbie and the Minecraft Movie 1:38:00 Why the Best Channels Stop Growing 1:44:41 What Happens When You Beat YouTube 1:46:18 When You Become an Idea Not a Person 1:49:48 The Two Things That Actually Matter

Grant

19,101 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Here's my conversation with Jennifer Burns (Jennifer Burns), a historian specializing in the evolution of economics & political ideas over the past 100 years. She wrote two great biographies: one on Milton Friedman and one on Ayn Rand. This is a super-technical deep-dive on econonmics, capitalism, and ideas of freedom in general. Also, at the end of the episode (in the outro), I reflect on my conversation with President Zelenskyy. The full episode is here on X and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:48 - Milton Friedman 15:41 - The Great Depression 29:58 - Schools of economic thought 41:05 - Keynesian economics 48:53 - Laissez-faire 56:43 - Friedrich Hayek 1:02:01 - Money and monetarism 1:16:46 - Stagflation 1:21:39 - Moral case for capitalism 1:25:35 - Freedom 1:30:34 - Ethics of competition 1:34:20 - Win-win solutions 1:36:09 - Corruption 1:38:33 - Government intervention 1:44:53 - Conservatism 1:51:16 - Donald Trump 1:53:52 - Inflation 1:58:21 - DOGE 2:03:40 - Javier Milei 2:08:46 - Richard Nixon 2:16:00 - Ronald Reagan 2:19:07 - Cryptocurrency 2:34:23 - Ayn Rand 2:42:01 - The Fountainhead 2:53:41 - Sex and power dynamics 3:09:47 - Evolution of ideas in history 3:17:15 - Postmodernism 3:28:16 - Advice to students 3:36:32 - Lex reflects on Volodymyr Zelenskyy interview
3:54:13

Here's my conversation with Jennifer Burns (Jennifer Burns), a historian specializing in the evolution of economics & political ideas over the past 100 years. She wrote two great biographies: one on Milton Friedman and one on Ayn Rand. This is a super-technical deep-dive on econonmics, capitalism, and ideas of freedom in general. Also, at the end of the episode (in the outro), I reflect on my conversation with President Zelenskyy. The full episode is here on X and everywhere else. Links in comment. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:48 - Milton Friedman 15:41 - The Great Depression 29:58 - Schools of economic thought 41:05 - Keynesian economics 48:53 - Laissez-faire 56:43 - Friedrich Hayek 1:02:01 - Money and monetarism 1:16:46 - Stagflation 1:21:39 - Moral case for capitalism 1:25:35 - Freedom 1:30:34 - Ethics of competition 1:34:20 - Win-win solutions 1:36:09 - Corruption 1:38:33 - Government intervention 1:44:53 - Conservatism 1:51:16 - Donald Trump 1:53:52 - Inflation 1:58:21 - DOGE 2:03:40 - Javier Milei 2:08:46 - Richard Nixon 2:16:00 - Ronald Reagan 2:19:07 - Cryptocurrency 2:34:23 - Ayn Rand 2:42:01 - The Fountainhead 2:53:41 - Sex and power dynamics 3:09:47 - Evolution of ideas in history 3:17:15 - Postmodernism 3:28:16 - Advice to students 3:36:32 - Lex reflects on Volodymyr Zelenskyy interview

Lex Fridman

458,148 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Luca Ferrari is the co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, one of the most fascinating companies in Europe and just became Italy's first decacorn. He describes it as 25% private equity firm and 75% technology company. They fully acquire and rebuild digital companies like Evernote, Vimeo, and most recently AOL. Luca Ferrari shares exactly how the Bending Spoons playbook works — how they find great businesses, improve every core function, and finance them with both debt and equity to own and operate forever. We also talk about his obsession with attracting and developing exceptional talent and why he's determined to build a generational company in Europe. Enjoy! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:30 What is Bending Spoons? 4:30 Why Europe Lacks Trillion-Dollar Companies 7:25 The First Test: From Failure to Founding 10:52 The McKinsey Years & Funding Co-founders 13:24 The Strategic Insight: Why M&A Over Building 16:13 Structural Advantages of the Platform Model 21:00 Talent as the Ultimate Edge 22:50 Rejecting Consensus 26:28 Early Days: From $10K to Billions 30:52 The Evernote Transformation 36:17 Pricing Power & Monetization Sophistication 40:32 Valuation & Deal Discipline 44:52 Financing Strategy 1:01:47 No Variable Pay: A Contrarian Approach 1:04:14 Areas of Dissatisfaction & Regulatory Frustration 1:09:25 Raising Europe's Largest Private Debt Round 1:13:28 AI's Impact on Software Businesses 1:17:26 Building Culture: State of the Spoon & Retreats 1:20:20 Why There Aren't More Bending Spoons 1:23:35 The Kindest Thing
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Luca Ferrari is the co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, one of the most fascinating companies in Europe and just became Italy's first decacorn. He describes it as 25% private equity firm and 75% technology company. They fully acquire and rebuild digital companies like Evernote, Vimeo, and most recently AOL. Luca Ferrari shares exactly how the Bending Spoons playbook works — how they find great businesses, improve every core function, and finance them with both debt and equity to own and operate forever. We also talk about his obsession with attracting and developing exceptional talent and why he's determined to build a generational company in Europe. Enjoy! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:30 What is Bending Spoons? 4:30 Why Europe Lacks Trillion-Dollar Companies 7:25 The First Test: From Failure to Founding 10:52 The McKinsey Years & Funding Co-founders 13:24 The Strategic Insight: Why M&A Over Building 16:13 Structural Advantages of the Platform Model 21:00 Talent as the Ultimate Edge 22:50 Rejecting Consensus 26:28 Early Days: From $10K to Billions 30:52 The Evernote Transformation 36:17 Pricing Power & Monetization Sophistication 40:32 Valuation & Deal Discipline 44:52 Financing Strategy 1:01:47 No Variable Pay: A Contrarian Approach 1:04:14 Areas of Dissatisfaction & Regulatory Frustration 1:09:25 Raising Europe's Largest Private Debt Round 1:13:28 AI's Impact on Software Businesses 1:17:26 Building Culture: State of the Spoon & Retreats 1:20:20 Why There Aren't More Bending Spoons 1:23:35 The Kindest Thing

Patrick OShaughnessy

443,405 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten