Liyi

Product Leader | Fintech Expert | Stablecoin

[Rohit @heyrohitai]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Jumoke👩💎 @Belbeljum]

Rahman Jago is from which tribe?

[Liyi @_theliyi]

@Wizarab10 Just leave these people kawai

[Liyi @_theliyi]

The interesting bit isn’t the chief of staff, it’s the kaizen loop. An assistant that scans what other builders are doing every Friday and proposes changes to its own config?

That’s not productivity, that’s a new operating model for solo founders.

[Ryan Carson @ryancarson]

https://t.co/72MBLeCASo

[Guillermo Flor @guilleflorvs]

The ultimate list of fundraising resources for founders:

1. 27 Most Promising AI Startup Pitch Decks Backed by Top Investors in 2025: https://t.co/dlRyti5v9y

2. How to Get Into YC: The Full Application Pack: https://t.co/DZoJ0rcweP

3. +50 Pitch Decks of World’s Most Sucessful Startups: https://t.co/mifMrDWvBK

4. 🔥 70 Pitch Decks That Raised Over $1 Billion in 2024 📈💰(FIGMA FILE):
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5. The ultimate 10 Excel Sheets: https://t.co/jq56hhO1Wp

6. The Ultimate Investor List of Lists:
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7. 💰The Family Office List:
https://t.co/dfmXsM4ROS

7. 💰The Angel Investor List:
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8. The Khosla Ventures Fundraising Pack 🚀:
https://t.co/9igcESDnor

9. The AI Unicorn Angel List: Angel Investors from Lovable, Cursor, Mercor, Polymarket, Synthesia & ElevenLabs:
https://t.co/mrALuXxN6z

10. Fyxer Fundraising Playbook: Series A to B in months + Profound's Series A Pitch Deck:
https://t.co/1NRVlQUjkk

reply to this with your startup's 1 liner and url so that investors in my network and myself get dealflow

[Max von Wallenberg @maxwallenberg]

“Over the next few years, we think the entire financial stack for startups (payments, banking, capital raising, going public) is going to be rewritten.” @ycombinator

100% agreed. We’re in the midst ins a seismic shift of the way we interact with money.

This new stack is very powerful, but also non trivial to build.

That why we built @iron - the enterprise grade banking and payment API powering the stablecoin economy.

Serious stablecoin builders choose Iron!

[Jeremy Allaire - jerallaire.arc @jerallaire]

Capital formation around @Arc

The Arc Builders Fund network includes:

500 Global
Breyer Capital
Canonical Crypto
CoinFund
CRV
Curql Fund
CV VC
DCG
Dispersion Capital
Dragonfly Capital
Electric Capital
Faction Ventures
Fin Capital
Flourish Ventures
Hack VC
Haun Ventures
Headline Asia
Infinity Ventures
IVC
Kindred Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Nyca Partners
Offline Ventures
SC Ventures
SNZ Capital
Strobe Ventures
https://t.co/zLV9CkQhBH

[Liyi @_theliyi]

My challenge to you as we wrap this series:

Stop chasing the next feature and start building your Leverage. Don’t just build a product that just works, build one that survives the noise.

This wraps up my short 5-day series on Product Strategy.

Have a nice weekend, folks.

[Liyi @_theliyi]

The Series Finale! I called this the "90-Day Ruin" Test

Early in my career, I thought I had a "dream team." Great culture, solid plan, happy users. Then we got a new executive

Within 3 months, the whole thing fell apart. Priorities vanished. The roadmap became a mess.

[Liyi @_theliyi]

Real strategy is moving from having "nice to have" to being "impossible to live without." It’s about being so essential that 90 days of silence from your dev team wouldn't shake your customers' loyalty at all.

[Liyi @_theliyi]

Your job isn't to make every decision. Your job is to give your team enough information so they can make the decisions for you.

Stop micromanaging the "How." Start obsessing over the "Why."

[Liyi @_theliyi]

Day 4: Build with clarity.

I used to think a packed schedule meant I was winning. I’d spend 8 hours a day in "alignment meetings" and go home exhausted, thinking I was a great leader.

Actually, I was just fixing a broken system.

[Liyi @_theliyi]

Can your lead engineer make a high-stakes choice on a Friday at 4:00 PM without calling you for permission?

If they have to ask you, they don't have enough context. If they know exactly what to do because they understand the "Why," you’ve succeeded.