Alex Wittenberg

Our own experience makes us stubborn old men about the future. We have lived through past growth rates. We’ve never lived through future growth. Therefore, it’s a lot easier for us to intuit what the future will be like by extrapolating linearly based on what we’ve actually experienced. Yes, things will be different, we all know that, but they’ll... See more

Bundling is a tailwind to sales conversations. Why pay $30 per employee per month for five different products ($150) if you can get a comparable offering in a single bundle for $50? And companies with smaller budgets can buy additional products that were out of reach as point solutions. This is one of the few true accumulating advantages in... See more

If tokens are investments in memes, every community doesn’t need a unique token. Protocols already have this figured out.

How do we reliably and effectively community and mobilize the DAO membership?How do we get work done collaboratively?How do we broaden our reach and connect with more people interested in our mission?How do we support delegation of votes (if needed) in the future?

Thankfully there are other lending protocols that have sprung up to support a broader variety of assets, while being slightly less capital efficient than AAVE and Compound.

In 1995, if you had said “should we open stores in that state or just run TV ads there?” that would not have been a meaningful question, but now all of those budgets are merging into one TAM. Do you get a better ROI on Instagram ads or faster shipping? If you open a store in that city, do your returns go down? 

On the surface this appears to be very community oriented, because anyone can buy the tokens, create liquidity, and stake it to earn more tokens. But depending on how it’s done, this could be a subtle way for the initial team or insiders to dramatically increase their share of the tokens.