Hey all! First, I'm so excited to be welcoming @flora (intro post) and @darick (intro post) full time this week! Ever since they signed on a few months ago, we've been anxiously awaiting for this day and here it is! Finally it's no longer just @shanemacgithub and I on this thing and we'll be a little less lonely.
Our fancy new logo!
I'll just underscore this: I'm so excited to be working with you again, Flora and Darick.
One more thing
I'm going to be heading to Cape May, NJ with Nash for some of this week, so I'll be partially available here and there. Will send some pictures from the beach with him…it's my first actual vacation with him in a long time, so I'm excited.
News this week
- Worked with Michael, Josh, and the Form Capital crew to finalize our new logo (which is just so so good)
- Had lots of amazing conversations with different folks that will be supporting us in this next round and beyond
- Cooper Turley and Stani Kulechov (Aave) are both topping up so that they're more engaged with us, which is fantastic
- Other new angels include Bored Elon, Tegan Kline (The Graph), Kayvon Beykpour (Twitter CPO), Justin Boreta (Glitch Mob), Jess Sloss (Seed Club), Joe Lallouz (Bison Trails), Trevor McFedries ($FWB / Brud), Jing Wang (Optimism), Bryan Flynn (Rabbithole)
- On target to close the Series A this week with a16z, which is exciting
- I was quoted in a New Yorker article this week about NFTs
- It also happened to be the first public mention in the press about XMTP!
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-bored-ape-avatars-are-taking-over-twitter
What we are reading / listening to
I know it's not work-related but this week I've been completely obsessed with Illenium's new "Fallen Embers" album.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4YomxhmDglPvD93W3T6l1V?si=KPYq_ecVSMmphGaeXeMCgw&dl_branch=1
Thanks everyone, here's to exciting week ahead!