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BJ Callahan was my assistant coach who recruited me to Villanova out of HS. He went on to be an assistant at a World Cup and is now one of the best coaches in the MLS, nations league champion and also first MLS coach to win at the Azteca.
Jim Curtain is now head coach of Austin FC, and was at our program for my freshman year. He really liked my game.
I remember feeling like I didn’t have the opportunities I wanted, I wasted a lot of time being bitter and lost focus on my career. At the surface it seemed like I gave it all, but the truth is looking back I had plenty more to give.
Gotta be grateful for every opportunity you get in life.
I’ve come back to this post probably once a week since I started working at @altitude
When Genius Act passed I was still working in “Web 2”. I started thinking about how internet native dollars were going to drive decisions I needed to make in future system designs and how it was going to disrupt all the design decisions I had made in the past. I even tried building my own products - one called “ledger” and another called “orb”. I wasn’t thinking about replacing a bank, I was thinking about the future of operations and how a new form of money changes everything.
I couldn’t build the solution, so i found the people that did.
Context really matters here.
In the article I'm making a technology argument. Programmable blockchains, stablecoins, and stablecoin orchestration let you build an alternative architecture for how businesses hold their money and run their finops.
Most of the stack becomes software. You hold your balance in stablecoins, you own it directly and you interact with banks in a modular way for the things banks are good at.
Credit, FX, repo, those sit with banks and will for a long time. Altitude relies on banking partners through the orchestration network for many of those capabilities.
None of this is about banks being bad, or the people working there not doing great work. We're simply presenting an alternative architecture for a specific kind of customer that changes the nature of their relationship with banks and how they receive financial services.
@CarlisleDiana I used to take the redline out to CT then drive back to providence. I’d ride with the windows down mid-winter to stay awake. Good times. Sad times, but good times.
Rough decision I made 5 years ago - Sold BTC and used funds to buy 2 props in Austin. Got wrecked on cap gains + current values. If this had been available then, 100% would've taken this approach.
Leverage don't sell.
The first ever Fannie Mae-insured mortgage backed by BTC in the U.S just got funded.
Originated and serviced by Better, powered by Coinbase.
Rolling out nationwide this summer.
Anyone building software today, is in the import business.
You buy raw intelligence wholesale, priced in tokens, from a handful of suppliers. You import it in narrow, specific ways and re-export it as the outcome your customer actually wants.