Rod Askarov

Serial Entrepreneur | Forbes 30U30 | Fintech/AI

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

After a 27-year drought, the New York Knicks are headed to the N.B.A. finals. Fans flooded the streets of the city in celebration.

#Knicks #NBA #basketball #nyknicks
#brunson
@nyknicks @NBA @TheGarden

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

Atlas just got very real

#BostonDynamics has shown the latest generation of #Atlas in motion. This version is fully electric, stands 6.2 ft tall, weighs 198 lb, and is built for industrial work.

Atlas has 56 degrees...
#robotics #humanoid #robot #ai #artificialintelligence

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

#OpenAI and #Anthropic just gave you a $5.5BN reason to start an #AI-native service provider.
Not because they're becoming #AInative service providers themselves. They're not. But what they ARE doing tells you everything about where the value is moving...
https://t.co/YqI8vTD9xt

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#Aave, largest #DeFi platform, sees ~$5B in outflows (≈25% of AUM) following a ~$290M exploit

Aave, the biggest DeFi platform accounting for 25% of the $100B of value locked in DeFi, saw its TVL tumble from $25B to $20B in a few hours as one of its...

https://t.co/Ndc8K7NyIG

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

This is the story of #Hyperliquid, the most profitable #startup per employee on earth, told from a guarded office in Singapore. Last year its team of 11 generated $900 million in profit. It's 3 years old, has never taken #venturecapital #crypto #blockchain
https://t.co/dUCGXMJbjT

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Today #Perplexity is announcing the Billion Dollar Build.

8-week to build a company with a path to $1B.

Finalists have the opportunity to secure up to $1M in investment from the Perplexity Fund
https://t.co/SmBsj9hIvn

#ai #artificialintelligence #startup #entrepreneurship

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

On April 6, 2026, the #Artemis II astronauts flew around the #Moon, seeing parts of it that had never been viewed by human eyes. They captured what they saw in words and in photos—swipe through to see what they shared.

#NASA #Earthrise

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

Happy childhoods don't build unicorns. Chamath has been saying this for years — and he's not being provocative about it. He's describing what he actually observes.

His grant programme funds... ->> https://t.co/xfazzDqTJS

#Chamath #Founders #Startups #unitedstates #siliconvalley

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

The barrier to entry is gone.

The barrier to success just moved.

Read more ->> https://t.co/PKyWLCbnsm

#rodaskarov #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

The game has changed.

In 2026, building a #startup no longer requires millions in capital.

Look at this stack:
→ #Claude, #ChatGPT, #Perplexity for intelligence
→ #Cursor, #Replit for building
→ #Figma, #Canva for design
→ #Zapier, n8n for automation

You don’t need a team.

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

Attention becomes the only moat.

This is the new startup equation:

Build fast → Test fast → Distribute faster

If you nail:
1. A real problem
2. A product people actually want
3. A distribution engine

You don’t just build a startup.

You’re on the path to a unicorn.

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

The first one-man billion-dollar company was not a SaaS startup. It was a distribution machine. Matthew G. spent $20,000, opened ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, and vibe-coded. No team. No VC. No board. His company, Medvi, sells GLP-1 weight-loss treatment... =>https://t.co/L96n0glbT7

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

“Well…is it AI?”

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

Who is at Digital Asset Summit New York @blockworksDAS? Trade Finance reinvented with AI is here for the world’s biggest market and hardest problems.

#ai #artificialintelligence #digitalassetsummit #blockchain

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Marc Andreessen sat down with Lenny Rachitsky to discuss AI, jobs and why the ceiling doesn’t exist.

Listen to the full episode: “Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet”.

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

Mood

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

$25 Billion. That's how much the Top 10 #crypto protocols made in 2025.
1. #DigitalBank s (#Tether & #Circle)
2. Money Railroads (#Tron) #USDT
3. Trading Casinos (#Hyperliquid & pump fun)
4. #DeFi Banks (#Lido & #Aave)
5. Money Exchanges (#PancakeSwap & #Uniswap)
$tlf #tradeleaf

[Rod Askarov @rodaskarov]

#Crypto rails are evolving from trader rails to business rails.

Report has data on stablecoin use, verification speed, fraud evolution, Travel Rule and Compliance..

https://t.co/r6GnZkwqJB

#Stablecoins #blockchain #bitcoin