Chris Murphy

early-stage investor 🎣✨

[Chris Murphy @ChMurphy]

@KevinJDCS 🧐

[Chris Murphy @ChMurphy]

🎯

[Ivan Burazin @ivanburazin]

Our pre-seed round had 60 angels.

When we started hosting events, I could call on all 60 of them to show up. Ofc, not all of them could. But some would. And they'd bring all the credibility associated with them + their own networks.

We got both the money and the distribution. A single large fund gives you one check and one set of relationships. 60 angels give you 60 different doors.

[Chris Murphy @ChMurphy]

@oskarblock @a16z @StiltaIP legends!

[Augustus @augustus_bank]

Meet Benjamin Alexander, our new Chief Compliance Officer.

Benjamin comes to us from Column, where he re-built their compliance program. Before that, JPMorgan, HSBC, CFSB.

Now his mission is to build again — this time from scratch, for the first clearing bank of the AI era.

[Chris Murphy @ChMurphy]

@Jack_O_Meara fees on 5billy! 🤤

[Frank @frankdegods]

fintech startup mass murder

[Dileep Thazhmon @thazhmon]

Started the morning at the @NYSE opening bell 🔔(sans my volcom cap 🧢), chatting through the next phase of enterprise stablecoin expansion, including:

+ our Argentina 🇦🇷 launch of stablecoin corporate cards for enterprises (and how it serves as a blueprint for multiple country launches a year!) 💪

+ the vote on the CLARITY Act today 👀 and how it impacts the future of stablecoin adoption.

+ how enterprise stablecoin infrastructure is very different from consumer ✅

+ why @jeeves_inc 🦁 is uniquely positioned to win in the global south with our combination of fiat & stablecoin enterprise grade rails.

Thanks for the invite and hope to be back on the NYSE soon but next time with a bell included 😉 Let’s go! 🚀

[Eric Hansander @erichansander]

you heard the man! still early, great time to join :) https://t.co/lrRNyDHQDF

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

.@augustus_bank CEO @FerdiDabitz discusses banking in the AI era:
https://t.co/f4qBWbJpns

[Chris Murphy @ChMurphy]

@FerdiDabitz 🤩🍿 https://t.co/UfaFC8AEdG

[Joe Haslam ☘ 🇪🇺 @joehas]

This could be Sinead’s best essay yet, an argument that Ireland’s asylum policy is not compassionate but cynical and cruel

“And when those communities said so; when the people who had been failed by the state for decades pointed at the hotel and said “this isn’t working”, they were called racist. By politicians with private healthcare, by commentators who owned their homes, and by an establishment class that had likely experienced precisely zero competition for any public resource in their entire lives.”

She finishes with a warning that the effects now visible in working class communities will move upward toward middle class communities.

And it’s the middle class that cause revolutions.

Free to read., link below.

[TBPN @tbpn]

.@FerdiDabitz: "The dollar is the best product in the history of the world. Insane PMF. There's quasi-infinite global demand for it, especially outside of the United States."

"There are all kinds of quantitative ways to think about this. Europe and the US contribute 40% of global GDP, but they contribute 80% of global reserve holdings and money movement."

"There are also qualitative ways to think about it. The existence and frankly commercial success of the stablecoin stack is a pure expression of this thesis."

[Chris Murphy @ChMurphy]

Long Live Augustus! 💪

Letsgooo @FerdiDabitz + team @augustus_bank 🏦🚀

[Ferdinand Dabitz @FerdiDabitz]

1/ There is so much to be said about the bank charter, the approval and how we’re re-thinking clearing for the AI era. But first, I wanted to take 2 minutes to talk about why “Augustus”.

[Chris Murphy @ChMurphy]

@Ross_O_Leary @IDAIRELAND the fecker beat me!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

It could actually be a significant problem that Europe doesn't have enough garages. This sounds like a joke, but I'm serious. Garages let you work on stuff that doesn't matter yet, which is how big things often start. The outliers of ideas need the outliers of space.

[Chris Murphy @ChMurphy]

@andyhelbig 😍🥹

[Phillip McKenna @phillip_mckenna]

Just hit 1 Million Students on SimpleStudy. Now off to San Francisco 🌉🚀
Don't do consumer ;)

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

@MichealMartinTD Fairplay Killian,
Some great shots there.

[Annelie Ajami @annelieajami]

📢 Excited to announce @AnamcaraCap's participation in the $4.1M pre-seed round of Omniscient led by @seedcamp

🔥https://t.co/xRtaSfm1Ru is an AI-native decision intelligence platform for C-suites and boards - spanning corporate risk, geopolitical risk, and narrative strategy.

[Marik Hazan @MarikHazan]

We just rebuilt every startup in @ycombinator's latest demo day batch.

Here's what our agentic "founders" pulled off and what it means for the future of startups.

Fully useable products at the bottom of the thread below 🤖🧨