just wrapped Startup Village Borneo with
@SolanaFndn and
@socoe_s 🇲🇾
5 days, 32 projects, 100+ builders in Kuching, fueled by cheese naan and kek lapis.
my favourite part was watching first-time founders speak to random people on the streets to explain their product, hone their pitch, then walk in the next morning and present like they'd done it their whole lives.
two key takeaways that resonated even more after hearing
@jacobkxyz of
@Superscrypt on
@BFMradio (timely interview - see🧵):
1 | the idea is not the bet, the builder is. some of the strongest protocols in crypto are a founder's third or fourth attempt. your project doesn't need to be right yet, it needs to exist.
2 | "we're looking for the hungry. that's the difference between you succeeding and sleeping on your friend's couch." Kuching had plenty of hungry (literally!) last week.
and the timing now is perfect:
@colosseum's Crypto World's Fair opened this week (Sept 14 - Oct 12, $800K in prizes + $2.5M in funding on the line). it's multi-ecosystem this time, so the whole crypto world is in one arena.
Borneo was the warm-up, and now
@superteamMY will see you on the global stage 🫡
keep shipping and stay hungry🔥