-Reporter: After your first goal, you were mimicking playing a flute. What was the meaning behind that celebration?
🚨🎙️| Kylian Mbappé: "Yeah, I was listening to a Nigerian 🇳🇬 song in the dressing room just before kickoff. The flute instrumental stuck in my head.
Reporter: What song was that?
🚨🎙️| Kylian Mbappé: Legolas by Odumodu black. 🎶
GM.
Happy Monday.
A new week means new opportunities, new conversations, and new projects waiting to be discovered.
Build with intention.
Move with conviction.
Stay consistent.
Every month in Web3:
Week 1: everyone is building.
Week 2: everyone is at a conference.
Week 3: everyone is at another conference.
Week 4: everyone is processing why the price didn't move at the conferences.
The actual building happens in the DMs, the 1am GitHub sessions, and the Discord channels with 200 members that nobody cool has joined yet.
We're in those channels.
A note to the founders who’ve been watching Elvis Scouts from the sidelines:
If you’ve ever thought, “We’ll reach out when we’re ready,” here’s a genuine question:
What does “ready” actually look like?
Most founders assume they need traction, a bigger community, or a polished product before starting the conversation.
In reality, some of the best decisions are made long before any of that.
We work with projects at different stages, and sometimes the right time to talk is before you think you’re ready.
If you’ve been thinking about reaching out, DM us “READY.”
Let’s see where the conversation leads.
We've started calling it the Credibility Debt Cycle.
Every shortcut a project takes in its early community building creates debt.
Bots: debt.
Fake engagement pods: debt.
Paid hype without disclosure: debt.
The debt is invisible until the first crisis.
Then it comes due all at once.
The projects we work with understand this because they've watched it happen to others.
The ones who don't understand it usually come to us after the first repayment.
Prevention is cheaper.
We prefer prevention.
The most honest thing I can tell you about scouting:
It's mostly being wrong with good reasons.
We pass on things that work.
We scout things that stall.
The percentage that fully validates our thesis is lower than we'd like to admit publicly.
What we've gotten right: the framework.
The process.
The refusal to move on hype.
What we're always improving: the intuition.
Which is really just accumulated pattern recognition from enough mistakes.
This job doesn't get easier.
You just learn to be less afraid of being wrong.