> be @yaircleper
always the curious kid
> gets into Technion
one of the toughest engineering schools in Israel
> builds a website creator in 2001
sells the company 3 years later
> starts another startup
like eToro
quickly learns the lesson of
choosing partners carefully
> moves on
builds a business-intelligence company
sells it to Cloudera
then jumps into retail tech as a solo founder
> watches crypto from the sidelines since 2013
even meets Vitalik
didn’t fully get it and didn’t get in
> fast-forward to 2021
NFT summer
mentors tell him to build in crypto
seed gets planted
> starts exploring MEV and blockchain infra
> sees a massive gap in RPC
a backbone all of crypto relies on
> chooses to fix the issue since it impacts everyone, devs, users, apps
> now a contributor to Lava Network
fast, reliable, decentralized RPC protocol
> today Lava powers apps, wallets, and chains
and Yair is still doing what he’s always done,
solving the hard, unexciting problems that keep the space going.
Luana Lopes Lara becomes youngest female billionaire in history!!!
> be @luanalopeslara
> born in a small town in Brazil
> first passion isn't business
> it's ballet
> enrolled in the Russian Bolshoi school as a kid
> the most prestigious and the most brutal
> 10 hours a day of training
> academic classes on top
> living away from home before most kids learn algebra
> a decade of this
> blood, blisters, perfection
> dances the Black Swan in Austria
> the peak of classical ballet
> very few ever get there
> then she pivots
> says the Bolshoi discipline becomes her superpower
> applies "elite-athlete mentality" to startups
> starts @Kalshi
> builds markets to predict real-world events
> everything becomes tradable: elections, economics, weather
> grows into the largest prediction market on the planet
> the idea is controversial
> critics call it "gambling dressed as finance"
> supporters call it "truth markets"
> she calls it "a new asset class"
> Kalshi fights through regulatory uncertainty
> scales anyway
> volume surges
> institutions quietly plug in
> today, Kalshi announces an $11B valuation
> Luana becomes the youngest female billionaire in history
> 29 years, 171 days
> a former ballerina leading a financial revolution
> the ballet kid from Brazil
> who trained until her feet bled
> now rewriting how information is priced and making history over and over again
We have such an amazing example!!
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