2022 was a whirlwind swirling within a cyclone that was spinning inside a hurricane that sloshed around in a typhoon.

Translation: it’s a dizzying mess.

I think I speak on behalf of the world, that life in 2022 was tumultuous, somewhat painful and a bit of a blip.

We saw hacks, grifts, scams and collapses of every and any kind in crypto land.

We saw Celsius, Terra/Luna, 3AC, Voyager, Hodlnaut rise up like a hot air balloon and implode unceremoniously, and now FTX and Alameda Research too.

We saw Donald Trump triumphant return to Twitter and manifested himself in 45,000 NFT trading cards, which sold out in 24 hours and is now 98% down.

We saw Sam Bankman-Fried, one of crypto’s wealthiest billionaire having his entire networth vaporized in hours.

We saw Elon, the Chief Twit, lose his ranking as world’s richest man and fired more than half of Twitter right after he brought a literal kitchen sink into Twitter HQ.

We saw the slap that was heard all over the world, which ended with Wilp Smith getting cancelled by netizens.

We saw the world’s favorite monarch pass and relived her amazing, divine legacy that will no doubt survive the generations.

We saw just how delicate and precarious the entire world actually is when all the fates of the economies and world order is so dependent on a simple number called the “interest rate”.

We saw how powerful simple jpegs can be when it can create immense wealth and change the lives of artists, and when it can scam millions out of people.

We saw the ever prodigious son of Argentina, Lionel Messi, led his country to a world cup championship and carve his name into the record books for eternity.

We saw SPACs got artificially inflated by hype and gassing out like a car running out of fuel.

We saw our favorite Johnny Depp, a dude, finally winning a very nasty, very public argument with a woman, Amber Heard.

So what do you think?

Will we learn from our mistakes?

Will we do better in 2023?

Will retail investors grow smarter and learn from their follies?

Will the markets recover and start it’s climb upwards?

I do think crypto will persist like cockroaches and evolve to newer forms.

I do think that governments all over the world will embrace the Blockchain more deeply.

Generative AI will take over, evolve, penetrate mainstream and permeate every aspect of our work, play and life.

It might be the year of consolidation, for bigger tech to consume big tech and for the market to experiment with newer ideas.

Startups have to look frantically for product market fit or visit the Startup graveyard.

VCs will slowly loosen up and resume investments, paying more attention to founder quality, especially after the likes of SBF, Do Kwon and

The media will be put on a public trial, possibly flogged but emerge relatively unscathed, as they always do.

Stealing a quote from The Big Short:

At the end of the day, it’s the poor people and immigrants who will suffer the most.

Let’s be a little kinder, a little smarter, a little more thoughtful and a little more forgiving.

Let’s all work on it and do better for 2023.

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Did you have a good 2022?

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#startups #business #startupx #goals #success #socialmedia #2022 #entrepreneurship #strategy #eth #btc #crypto #sbf #sambankmanfried #2023 #ftx #scam #newyear

2022 was a whirlwind swirling within a cyclone that was spinning inside a hurricane that sloshed around in a typhoon.

Translation: it’s a dizzying mess.

I think I speak on behalf of the world, that life in 2022 was tumultuous, somewhat painful and a bit of a blip.

We saw hacks, grifts, scams and collapses of every and any kind in crypto land.

We saw Celsius, Terra/Luna, 3AC, Voyager, Hodlnaut rise up like a hot air balloon and implode unceremoniously, and now FTX and Alameda Research too.

We saw Donald Trump triumphant return to Twitter and manifested himself in 45,000 NFT trading cards, which sold out in 24 hours and is now 98% down.

We saw Sam Bankman-Fried, one of crypto’s wealthiest billionaire having his entire networth vaporized in hours.

We saw Elon, the Chief Twit, lose his ranking as world’s richest man and fired more than half of Twitter right after he brought a literal kitchen sink into Twitter HQ.

We saw the slap that was heard all over the world, which ended with Wilp Smith getting cancelled by netizens.

We saw the world’s favorite monarch pass and relived her amazing, divine legacy that will no doubt survive the generations.

We saw just how delicate and precarious the entire world actually is when all the fates of the economies and world order is so dependent on a simple number called the “interest rate”.

We saw how powerful simple jpegs can be when it can create immense wealth and change the lives of artists, and when it can scam millions out of people.

We saw the ever prodigious son of Argentina, Lionel Messi, led his country to a world cup championship and carve his name into the record books for eternity.

We saw SPACs got artificially inflated by hype and gassing out like a car running out of fuel.

We saw our favorite Johnny Depp, a dude, finally winning a very nasty, very public argument with a woman, Amber Heard.

So what do you think?

Will we learn from our mistakes?

Will we do better in 2023?

Will retail investors grow smarter and learn from their follies?

Will the markets recover and start it’s climb upwards?

I do think crypto will persist like cockroaches and evolve to newer forms.

I do think that governments all over the world will embrace the Blockchain more deeply.

Generative AI will take over, evolve, penetrate mainstream and permeate every aspect of our work, play and life.

It might be the year of consolidation, for bigger tech to consume big tech and for the market to experiment with newer ideas.

Startups have to look frantically for product market fit or visit the Startup graveyard.

VCs will slowly loosen up and resume investments, paying more attention to founder quality, especially after the likes of SBF, Do Kwon and

The media will be put on a public trial, possibly flogged but emerge relatively unscathed, as they always do.

Stealing a quote from The Big Short:

At the end of the day, it’s the poor people and immigrants who will suffer the most.

Let’s be a little kinder, a little smarter, a little more thoughtful and a little more forgiving.

Let’s all work on it and do better for 2023.

-

Did you have a good 2022?

-

#startups #business #startupx #goals #success #socialmedia #2022 #entrepreneurship #strategy #eth #btc #crypto #sbf #sambankmanfried #2023 #ftx #scam #newyear