And Then You Win is Finally Out!
The story of how we went all-in on Bitcoin, were ridiculed, “ate glass” to survive — and built businesses worth $12 billion and counting.
More than that, it’s about what we learned about ourselves and the world along the way.
Amazon: https://t.co/pBoieM2PLT
I promised once our incubated companies Bitfury USA a.k.a $CIFR and Bitfury Canada a.k.a. $HUT would BOTH become DECACORNS I would make the tweet. WHAT a RIDE! Congrats to outstanding leadership by @rftylerpage and @ashergenoot and their respective teams. Next Stop - HECTACORN 🚀
DeCentralised AI @gonka_ai Time Has Come:
1) GPU Supply Crunch
2) Power Supply Crunch
3) Sovereign Mandates
4) Agentic AI Age
5) Massive Cost Advantage
The Blume podcast unearths the best of founder stories. Last year’s theme “Destiny, Avenged” recounts 8 origin stories, startup successes that most people said couldn’t exist. @BKartRed and @BlumeVentures bring these stories to you in the 5th edition of our Narrowcast series.
🔷 @harshilmathur & @shashank_kr - @Razorpay
"The system said no to them. Now they are the system."
Two coders. 100 banker rejections. Then they became the payment rails for 80 of India's top 100 unicorns.
🍷 @RajeevSula - @sula_vineyards
"Grit out when times are tougher. Know that what you're doing will pay off in the long term."
He didn't start a wine company. He created India's wine industry.
💻 @SrishtiBaweja & @tarundua81 - @e2enetworks
"Problem-solving, compounded over fifteen years, created something no vision could have."
No grand thesis. Just the next problem, until they became India's only sovereign AI cloud infrastructure company.
✈️ @DeepKalraMMT & @Rajesh_Magow - @makemytrip
"Perseverance, resilience is just showing up and being there."
9/11. Dot-com bust. COVID. They stayed through every crisis that wiped out everyone else.
₿ @BitfuryGeorge - @BitfuryGroup
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. And then you win."
He chose to build when he could have just held 300,000 Bitcoin. Three billion-dollar companies later, he's still building.
⚡@tarunsmehta - @atherenergy
"No one can shortcut a decade of engineering. The patience and the technological lead become the moat."
He bet on premium EVs in a market obsessed with cheap. The hardness of hardware became his edge.
🧴Mohit Yadav - Minimalist
"You can't be selectively honest."
Radical transparency in a category built on hype. It turned out customers could think for themselves.
🏠Tanuj Shori - Square Yards
"Is this life and death for you?"
He used to ask every founder this question. Then he found his own answer and built India's largest integrated real estate platform.
At Blume, we chose the theme "Destiny Avenged" for 2025 because it captures something every long-game founder knows: the feeling, after all the toil, that you've delivered on what your fate line suggested when you started.
These aren't quick wins. They're decade-long journeys. And we've been privileged to witness and hear them up close.
“Destiny Avenged” is in airport bookstores + https://t.co/sRTQkcBJH7
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