aspiring chef · building @playWLS · prev investing @L1D_xyz · cofounder @spearbit @cantinaxyz @thebostondao

Brooklyn + Boston
After ten years in crypto, I’m starting something new. I’m building WeLikeSports.com with a small team of elite operators that I’ve been hoping to work with for years. On the surface, it’s a sports pool platform. But to me, it’s something else entirely. A small window into a possible future: one where money, games, and people are deeply and effortlessly intertwined. And a business model where the platform succeeds when the user succeeds. Where the ethical decision is also the economically rational decision. I’ve spent the last decade investing, trading, and helping teams build, mostly in B2B platforms. Along the way, I’ve met a lot of incredible founders and watched companies like @Morpho @Multisig and @GromaCorp grow from ideas into businesses. As an investor in both Luna and FTX, I’ve also seen a lot of things go terribly wrong. You learn a lot watching companies get built. But eventually, you get tired of cheerleading. For the last decade I’ve helped other people build their vision. Now I feel ready to build my own.
1/ Today we’re introducing WeLikeSports.com: a better way to run sports pools with friends. No rake, no commissioner, no waiting for payouts. Just set up a bracket, survivor, squares, or pick’em pool and you're ready to win.
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Does Gruden have a tech burner account
"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything" You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition. One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them. A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math? "Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up. My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes. "The social disruption will be enormous!" Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach. Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already? A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up. Accelerate.
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I’m convergingggggg
🔥 We’ve got a banger startup founder panel at Converge tomorrow. 🔥 Move Fast and Break Things vs. Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick Chris Lehman of @GromaCorp Galen Moore of @StorkOracle Jake Lynch of @PlayWLS Nick Emmons of @AlloraLabsHQ 1-6 PM. Boston. Tickets 👇
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jake likes sports retweeted
Week 3 survivor pool cheat sheet: Chiefs, 49ers and Packers are tied at 74%, the week's safest plays.
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Wait is Harvey and the Lesbian bar in western mass lowkey the same story
The hardest thing about building @harvey is doing what’s best for our customers despite immense pressure to do what’s easy. The easy thing would have been to force our customers onto consumption pricing before they were ready and serve them worse models to protect our margins. We chose to help our customers transition on a timeline that works for them and give them the best models in the meantime, even though it hurt our margins. This meant optimizing our product through routing, harness improvements, and post-training so we could serve frontier intelligence at an affordable price. It also meant building the infrastructure for customers to monitor and manage spend: usage dashboards, per-matter cost attribution, spend caps, and ROI reporting. As a result, we improved our gross margins from -50% to positive in a single quarter despite usage doubling month over month and continuing to serve the best models. Our philosophy is simple: do what’s best for our customers, even when it’s painful, hurts our margins, or draws criticism from competitors, X, and the press. We believe the most important part of building a company is earning and keeping your customers’ trust. You do that by doing the hard thing for them, even when it costs you.
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jake likes sports retweeted
When you lose your parlay by 1 yard
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Jed has spent a decade curating one of the best founder and investor networks in crypto. As an early stage investor should be, he is focused on backing the best teams and working closely with them to help find PMF. Many early stage investors have been wiped out over the past couple years in crypto, raising a second fund in this environment is a huge accomplishment.
1/ We’ve closed Breed VC Fund II, a $15M early-stage fund. We back the founders bold enough to rebuild the world we see today and return sovereignty to users. @breed_vc
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I really respect businesses that are "timeless" vs "timeboxed". I think you get batches where in 4 years' time, you'd know that was a "2026 business" But a rare few are timeless in the problems they solve, problem and trust over product. And trust will be the most valuable asset
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Bengals and bills only teams leaving this weekend looking like they are him
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Oh no
PMT has been cancelled
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Chargers then browns losing is just the absolute worst survivor luck ever
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This is an all time post
For the first time since Week 7 of the 2022 season, we do not have a single player with an out, doubtful or questionable designation on our injury report
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WOW is so back
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All coffee shops should have a line just for cold brew
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jake likes sports retweeted
We're running a NFL survivor pool starting in week 2 for crypto folks, comment sports to let me know if you'd like to join
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This is where you're going to stay Doubs. Enjoy your new home
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Bagel toasted or not toasted?
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We soft launched for football yesterday and got our first organic users. Real users who want your product are the best motivation.
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so many onchain charts look good. its unbelievable
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As an american I want to be happy for Shelton but he's just so cringe
Ben Shelton to the semis 🔥 Shelton outlasts the defending champion Alcaraz in a five-set thriller!
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