It’s happening: I’m going full-time Web3
Over the past year, I’ve built conviction around the space in a big way. I can’t sit on the sidelines.
Today is my last day at Vanedge
A bit about my journey
1/ My first real exposure to crypto was in 2016, when I was working on an innovation team at a Fortune 500 bank
2/ I saw the promise of blockchains, but after we ran a proof-of-concept crypto project that didn’t really go anywhere (because, well, it was 2016), I got jaded.
3/ I didn’t see near-term business applicability at scale, and the maximalists made me cringe, so I just kind of carried on with my life.
4/ Fast-forward to spring 2020. Markets were in turmoil after Covid hitting.
I was really worried about QE and the future of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, so I started obsessively studying macroeconomics.
5/ Ray Dalio’s Changing World Order and Adam Barrata’s The Great Devaluation, in particular, both led me to question a lot of ‘givens’ about fiat currency
6/ In zooming out and better understanding the history of money and empires, I became convinced that we are in for a global monetary reset in a pretty big way. (I’m still convinced of this.)
7/ As a result, I ended up spending a lot more time than usual thinking about alternative stores of value – precious metals, real estate, and… crypto.
8/ While it was the macro environment & my concern for fiat that got me back into crypto initially, it quickly dissolved as my main focus in studying the space
Web3 offers so much promise beyond just money
Today, the macro side is just a subset of what keeps me in crypto