Sam Peurifoy 🏴‍☠️

PhD @Columbia, @ForbesUnder30 in VC

[robin @zebird0]

The people running the global economy will be the ones who were scalping at the grand exchange in RuneScape in the 2007-2013 era

[Siqi Chen @blader]

pain is learning your 4 year old has a brain tumor in the morning.

and watching her 10 year old sister play with her, trying so hard to hold back her tears so she doesn’t scare her little sister.

all you can do is turn around and scream silently into your fist until it bleeds.

[Sam Peurifoy 🏴‍☠️ @SamPeurifoy]

@pbjonas @KAPGamesGG 🫡

[robin @zebird0]

Y'all are sleeping on Capybara Go, which has quietly scaled to $800K PER DAY in revenue

Habby is the modern Zynga and here's how they do it 👇

[Catrina @dotcuriouscat]

It’s a milestone day – announcing @PortalVentures Fund II, an oversubscribed $75M fund, dedicated as the first, only, and best crypto fund exclusively focused on leading pre-seed protocol businesses.

I’d like to take a moment to share a more personal note.

Truthfully, it feels surreal to see my face on the cover of Fortune Term Sheet. If I could go back to my 15-year-old self—“fresh off the boat” to Canada, struggling in an ESL program—and tell her this would happen one day, she’d surely look at me with an eye roll.

VCs, by nature, are pattern-seekers. And as I reflect on my own path, the dominant thread is “know what you want.” From my first day at business school, I knew venture capital was the one true career for me.

It was the purest form of epiphany, where seemingly random fragments of my life piece across stages together for a strikingly obvious picture
- from my days as a lively child TV anchor in China to a nerdy, taciturn high schooler in Canada leading the science club to the Physics Olympiad
- from six years of mastering storytelling in management consulting to gaining insights from some of the most successful companies in web2 and web3 to now inform best practices for my portfolio companies
- from designing the crypto course for Wharton, organizing the UPenn Blockchain Conference now three years in a row, to now the dedicated pre-seed focus, in which proximity to talent is a key ingredient.

Once you discover what you want with an unyielding will and a “whatever it takes” conviction, it materializes. The real work is figuring out what it is that you truly want, then letting your passion guide you. Here’s mine: to create the future in the present day on crypto rails, and let’s do it together.

This milestone would also not have been possible without the most astute thinker, trusted partner, and my Bo-le (伯乐), @evanbfish. Here’s to a spectacular Fund II and many more to come!

Big shoutout to @leomschwartz for the insightful piece & coverage!

Fortune Article: https://t.co/CriZ0eSzJk

[Sam Peurifoy 🏴‍☠️ @SamPeurifoy]

@damor_eth Super cool to see

[Matt Zhang @zhang_matt]

No matter who wins, crypto is winning.

https://t.co/bp7Qzl41NC

[andy @apwlxyz]

Today is the day we finally take @LegendofArcadia live. It's been a long journey it's great to finally bring our token $ARCA live to millions of gamer globally.

I spent the past weekend reflecting and want to share our learnings and our thoughts on gaming.

🧵A Thread below 👇

[Das 🏴‍☠️⚓🌊 @DasYield]

Honored to join the ranks of @WayfindersGG🏴‍☠️

@SpikeCollects and the Wayfinders are some of the most genuine supporters of the web3 gaming industry (and @capncompany pirates!)

[Matt Zhang @zhang_matt]

1/2 ⭐️ HIRING 🌟 best job in the world:

@HivemindCap is looking for a top talent to join our investment team to focus on the NFT space. Apply below 👇

https://t.co/ncRKV0a3iq

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Wow, diffusion models (used in AI image generation) are also game engines - a type of world simulation.

By predicting the next frame of the classic shooter DOOM, you get a playable game at 20 fps without any underlying real game engine.

This video is from the diffusion model.

[Sam Peurifoy 🏴‍☠️ @SamPeurifoy]

@lessin Reminds me of this great post by @arrington back over a decade ago

https://t.co/s6P8QgMGvD

[Matt Zhang @zhang_matt]

Excited to lead @spaceandtime new funding round with our friends at @hiFramework @FactionVC @Arrington_Cap and many other great investors, and to back @nateholiday and @chiefbuidl to build the next generation of compute infrastructure! 🎉

[Sam Mathews @sammathews]

BACK AT WORLDS BABY!!!

8 years in a row, and 12 of 14 LoL World championships. It’s not worlds without Fnatic.

Now to win Season Finals.

#fncwin
#alwaysfnatic

[Sam Peurifoy 🏴‍☠️ @SamPeurifoy]

@samusb Can't let 'em know about my inner pirate 🏴‍☠️

[Sam Peurifoy 🏴‍☠️ @SamPeurifoy]

@LowLifeForms .@inhuman had a good thread on P2As

https://t.co/tQ7VoLhWdX

[inhuman @inhuman]

Play-To-Airdrop campaign tier list based on how enjoyable they were to participate in.

Developers, there are lessons in this! It is so easy to make a fun airdrop campaign, consult real gamers :)

[behold3r 🤝 @0xbehold3r]

Just got about 500 gold from @capncompany for this distribution. One of the actual (playable) game on Blast and they're launching S2 gameplay pretty soon! (new weapons, game modes etc)

Hoping to do better in the next wave. There's something for everyone - whether you're a holder of a F2P player!

[Captain & Company @capncompany]

🏆 BLAST GOLD DISTRIBUTED!

Congrats to all ye salty sea dogs who yet again braved the waters of @Blast_L2 to conquer the Goldcoves!

More piracy to come! Sail on!

[GAMES.GG @gamesdotgg]

To Chain or Not to Chain?

That's the question we'll be answering on tomorrow’s Press Play with @Clawford, @SamPeurifoy, and @Jihoz_Axie 🔥

Topics:

• Chain Wars
• NFTs vs Tokens

Set your reminder 👇

https://t.co/g3cxnlU5X3

[Hivemind @HivemindCap]

Punk #7728 is now part of the Hivemind Digital Culture Fund!