Author’s note: this was published on Medium on April 7, 2020. COVID had just hit the world massively, and I had just lost money in a DeFi protocol, and was living at my parents’ house in Paris. All I had was a passion for tech startups and 2 years of crypto-native experience – so I decided to go all in and “sell my potential” in order to raise $20,000 to fund my trip to San Francisco, CA. Today, I’m the founder and CEO of Showtime, a web3 social platform making NFTs more accessible. Our V1 pr...