Serge Vasin

(VC → Operator)x2

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

Investment rounds are like tenses.

Seed is future indefinite: We will test this.
Series A is present cont.: We are shipping this product.
Series B+: We have been shipping this product for X years.

To succeed one has to move from selling future to selling present.

#vc #humour

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

I appreciate the candidness of some founders:
- May I have access to the demo account?
- Sure! Any preferences for login or password?
- I’d rather set the password myself.
- You know, we have admin access anyway.

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

@angrypenguinPNG @eladgil Yet virtually everyone is looking for a magic bullet

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@punk6529 So true. And the people we follow are always the storytellers

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

We tend to savor our failures and disregard our successes. Doesn't seem right

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

I have a strange feeling that Ethereum domains killed anonymity on the blockchain

#ENS #blockchain #privacy

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

@RyanSAdams Thank you, Ryan!

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

@JWVerret It's not that I like it. It's just the market trend. We all saw it in web2

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

@JWVerret It's hardly a surprise. Our wallets alone contain way more data than any cookie. I even assume that Uni is just transparent about it and all other companies do it without disclosure.

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@benedictevans Then the password could be on a sticker on his monitor

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

The killer feature of most fintech startups is ditching the regulation. Sometimes this feature kills the startup. FTX is a stellar example

#FTXbankruptcy

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

Sever underestimation of complexity is an inevitable step when building any #startup

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

@punk6529 I keep on educating newcomers that an account on an exchange is not a hot wallet

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

#FTX collapse feels like a Lehman Brothers moment for crypto

#cryptocrash

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

@unicmetaverse @punk6529 Indeed there are more convenient ways to send important updates. Good old email, for example

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

Two hours of highly focused, uninterrupted work is enormously fulfilling. Almost like meditation

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

A brilliant way to be contrarian in the market

[Val Katayev @ValKatayev]

This chart illustrates how businesses manage ad spend in the face of recessions.

In 2009, the global economic pullback was just -0.7%.
But Advertising Spend dropped a whopping 10.1%.

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

The backlog of some corporations is 12 months long. Tip: as a SaaS, you need to make your integration 10x easier than it is now

#SaaS #backlog

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

@PersonaCryptona @RyanSAdams Nailed it

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@molly0xFFF @Domingroso All of it? 😅 Tolstoi had sentences long enough to pass for a chapter

[Serge Vasin @SergeyVasin_]

That’s how Friday looks like in #Twitter offices 🤠