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Wavelength Delivers Ark-Based Lightning Without Node Overhead | Roasbeef & Michael Levin SLP764 Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Michael Levin⚡️ of Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 explain Wavelength, their Ark implementation that removes node and liquidity management while keeping payments self-custodial and invoice-native. Timestamps 01:28 — Why Wavelength: Lightning Without Node Pain 03:00 —...

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E180: KAST Founder: Most crypto neobanks will be gone in 12 months raagulanpathy is the founder and CEO of KAST , a global stablecoin neobank, and a former Circle exec. He raised $80 million at a $600 million valuation on the thesis that the real prize isn't the stablecoin - it's the bank you build on top of it. We get into the money, the grind, and the token decision that pissed a chunk of his community off. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:58 How Raagulan Decides What Gets Done At KAST 04:35 The Chaos KAST Employees Deal With Daily 05:38 Raagulan's Hiring Philosophy At KAST 07:02 Why Firing Is Harder Than Hiring 08:35 The One Error That Could Kill KAST 09:52 How Raagulan Convinces Stablecoin Skeptics 10:46 What Outsiders Miss About The Payment Industry 12:06 Why KAST Needs So Many Different Departments 18:32 Partnerships: Variational & Bitwise 19:24 Raagulan's Real Take On Fees 21:55 KAST's Best Type Of Customer 23:53 The Thing Raagulan Can't Say Publicly 26:54 Founders Can't Chase All These Three Things At Once 29:04 Raagulan's Experience With GLP-1s 31:39 How KAST Kept Growing When Bitcoin Crashed 50% 34:05 KAST Is On Track For $100 Million In Revenue 36:55 Why KAST Hasn't Blown Up From Overspending 41:04 Why Everyone's Racing To Build Neobanks 42:52 What Makes Neobanks So Hard To Build 44:54 Why Neobanks Keep Shutting Down 45:57 What KAST Offers That Exchanges Can't 49:14 KAST Isn't A Card Business 50:43 How KAST Is Building Momentum 54:57 Raagulan On His Competitors 56:29 Partnerships: KAST & Trezor 57:33 Kevin's Honest Take On KAST 58:59 What KAST Is Doing With the $80 Million they raised 01:01:55 Would Raagulan Ever Sell Equity? 01:06:57 Who Buys In At A $3B Valuation Next? 01:08:39 Is Your Money Actually Yours Inside KAST 01:10:49 What Happens To Your Money If KAST Collapses 01:17:38 Custodial Vs Self-Custodial: Pros And Cons 01:19:52 Why KAST Obsesses Over Design And Brand 01:22:42 Partnerships: Jupiter & Ethena 01:23:26 KAST Points & Token: Should The KAST Community Feel Cheated? 01:34:13 What's Actually Behind This Tokenized Stock? 01:35:25 The Hill Raagulan Will Die On 01:36:41 One Prediction That Comes True In 5 Years 01:37:59 Is The Worst Behind Us In Crypto? 01:42:57 The One Thing To Remember From This Conversation 01:45:16 Closing Thoughts

MR SHIFT 🦁

177,453 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

I asked Dan Martell to walk me through every level of making money with AI. He gave me the most simple, practical advice I've ever heard on this subject. Level 1 - Making $0 - $100k Level 2 - Making $1m - $10m Level 3 - Building a $10m++ enterprise. 0:00 Only 5% of the World Has Ever Paid for AI 0:46 The Easiest Thing to Sell With AI Right Now 1:56 The Marcus and Sophie Framework 4:24 Theory of Constraints (Right Problem to Solve) 5:33 What Is the Number One Business Constraint 7:13 How to Leave Your Job and Go All In 8:27 Business Is Simple Find a Problem and Solve It 9:08 Stop Getting Ready to Get Ready 9:33 The Sarah Story One Text and $10K 9:53 Pull Up Your Phone and Message Your Contacts 11:05 Dan's Son Gets His First Client at $800/Month 12:41 Best Employee vs. Best Employer 13:59 What Other Services Can You Sell With AI 14:44 Sales Is Not Talking It's Asking 17:01 What to Do When You Hate Your Business 18:40 Pain and Pleasure Are the Only Two Motivators 19:13 They Haven't Made It a Must Yet 20:29 Make It a Must Not a Nice to Have 21:06 The Jen Story and the Gasping Moment 22:17 How to Find Your First 10 to 15 Clients 28:38 The Personal Brand Play 33:06 Vision Is What AI Cannot Do 34:55 Hard for Computers Easy for Humans 36:13 Level 2 Making Your First Million With AI 37:18 The Replacement Ladder Framework 37:39 Admin First Then Delivery Then Marketing 39:09 Why Marketing Is the Biggest AI Category 39:32 Why You Should Keep Sales for Yourself 40:00 Level 5 Leadership and AI Agents 41:41 What a Fully AI Systems Business Looks Like 43:13 The Gym Owner With Three Locations 46:16 Shutting Down the Company for Two Days 46:37 Teaching the Whole Team to Code in Claude 49:28 Wayne the 62 Year Old Who Made $12K a Month 52:38 I Only Share What Actually Works 53:21 Whisper Flow and Talking to Your AI 56:41 Claude Chat Claude Coworker and Claude Code 57:57 The Claude Browser Extension 58:49 Claude Code Is Not Just for Developers 1:00:06 How to Migrate Your AI Memory Across Tools 1:01:08 Level 3 $1M to $10M and the Brand Play 1:02:05 Nobody Buys AI They Buy Trust 1:03:25 Brand Is Association and Association Is Trust 1:05:12 A Million Followers Is $10M in Activated Revenue 1:07:03 How to Keep AI From Becoming Slop 1:07:42 Human in the Loop 1:08:16 The 10 80 10 Rule and Why AI Is Now the 80 1:10:01 The Team FIRED Themselves 1:11:45 Dan's Free AI Curriculum for Your Team

Grant

168,385 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

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

19,207 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten