My co-founders and I freezing with the Golden Gate Bridge behind us.

I been gone for a few weeks and look what happened to the wild, whacky, whizzy world of Crypto.

Was with my StartupX crew touring the US to meet potential investors, interesting founders and learning about the US ecosystem.

Was really awesome and stay tuned for more of my learnings and shenanigans in future posts.

July was supposed to be a month of re-learning, exposure, experiential education and rebirth.

But we got global recession, crypto scams, domino bankruptcies, painful lies and more Elon’s kids instead.

For starters, let’s go with something non-crypto.

Boris Johnson quits, along with 50 other government ministers and aides.

The US dollar and Euro reaches parity for the first time in 20 years.

The Ukraine war is still ongoing, bless every soul affected.

CrpytoPunk #4464 sold for 2,500 ETH or about $2.6M.

That’s the single largest NFT sale in months.

Wait, aren’t we in crypto winter?

Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, got assassinated by an obviously disturbed person with a home-made shotgun still wrapped in tape.

Can’t keep a hustler down.

Martin Shkreli the “Pharma Bro” is back with a new Web3 venture.

A few dozen rug pulls on various NFT projects happened (business as usual)

The fallout from Terra/Luna continues, infecting, destroying and eating up any and everyone who were negligent or reckless with their risk management.

Celsius, a big player in the industry, went kaput just after it said everything was fine.

3AC went down like the Titanic, but at least they still have their $50M yacht.

Is Su Zhu a misunderstood visionary or a negligent gambler?

Babel Finance lost $280M and is in deep waters now.

Voyager Digital is bankrupt and picking color for its coffin.

Zipmex is insolvent and filed for bankruptcy protection.

CoinLoan is on the brink of collapse.

Vauld left the game, just as quickly as it entered.

BlockFi was previously worth $4B, after raising $500M for its series E.

It was just sold to FTX (yep, Sam Bankman-Fried aka SBF) for $25M.

SBF is the unofficial Crypto Jesus now, blessing and hand-picking who he wishes to save in this turmoil.

Essentially, whoever SBF rescues and allow onto Noah’s Ark, will be saved from the horrendous storm that has engulfed the entire crypto world.

Former Coinbase employees got charged by the DoJ for frontrunning.

Numerous companies like Blockchain.com, OpenSea and Gemini have laid off thousands of employees.

Tesla sold 75% of their BTC.

Elon is trying to start a soccer team.

Elon had twins with one of his top execs at Neuralink, and now has a total of 9 kids.

Name me another billionaire with more kids.

I’ll wait.

I really don’t know what’s the game plan here.

Is he trying to single-handedly populate Mars?

Anyways, wave by-bye to July and let’s greet August with some gusto and brio shall we?

StartupX is kickstarting some interesting projects in the sustainability, web3, 5G and new ventures space.

The HyperScale Waste Tech Accelerator is starting soon.

Startup Weekend’s foray into the Web3 metaverse is commencing.

And I still don’t get the hype about the MCU’s phase 5.

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How’s your July been?

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#startups #business #startupx #growth #success #socialmedia #culture #strategy #eth #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #nft #branding #web3 #cryptopunks #july

My co-founders and I freezing with the Golden Gate Bridge behind us.

I been gone for a few weeks and look what happened to the wild, whacky, whizzy world of Crypto.

Was with my StartupX crew touring the US to meet potential investors, interesting founders and learning about the US ecosystem.

Was really awesome and stay tuned for more of my learnings and shenanigans in future posts.

July was supposed to be a month of re-learning, exposure, experiential education and rebirth.

But we got global recession, crypto scams, domino bankruptcies, painful lies and more Elon’s kids instead.

For starters, let’s go with something non-crypto.

Boris Johnson quits, along with 50 other government ministers and aides.

The US dollar and Euro reaches parity for the first time in 20 years.

The Ukraine war is still ongoing, bless every soul affected.

CrpytoPunk #4464 sold for 2,500 ETH or about $2.6M.

That’s the single largest NFT sale in months.

Wait, aren’t we in crypto winter?

Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, got assassinated by an obviously disturbed person with a home-made shotgun still wrapped in tape.

Can’t keep a hustler down.

Martin Shkreli the “Pharma Bro” is back with a new Web3 venture.

A few dozen rug pulls on various NFT projects happened (business as usual)

The fallout from Terra/Luna continues, infecting, destroying and eating up any and everyone who were negligent or reckless with their risk management.

Celsius, a big player in the industry, went kaput just after it said everything was fine.

3AC went down like the Titanic, but at least they still have their $50M yacht.

Is Su Zhu a misunderstood visionary or a negligent gambler?

Babel Finance lost $280M and is in deep waters now.

Voyager Digital is bankrupt and picking color for its coffin.

Zipmex is insolvent and filed for bankruptcy protection.

CoinLoan is on the brink of collapse.

Vauld left the game, just as quickly as it entered.

BlockFi was previously worth $4B, after raising $500M for its series E.

It was just sold to FTX (yep, Sam Bankman-Fried aka SBF) for $25M.

SBF is the unofficial Crypto Jesus now, blessing and hand-picking who he wishes to save in this turmoil.

Essentially, whoever SBF rescues and allow onto Noah’s Ark, will be saved from the horrendous storm that has engulfed the entire crypto world.

Former Coinbase employees got charged by the DoJ for frontrunning.

Numerous companies like Blockchain.com, OpenSea and Gemini have laid off thousands of employees.

Tesla sold 75% of their BTC.

Elon is trying to start a soccer team.

Elon had twins with one of his top execs at Neuralink, and now has a total of 9 kids.

Name me another billionaire with more kids.

I’ll wait.

I really don’t know what’s the game plan here.

Is he trying to single-handedly populate Mars?

Anyways, wave by-bye to July and let’s greet August with some gusto and brio shall we?

StartupX is kickstarting some interesting projects in the sustainability, web3, 5G and new ventures space.

The HyperScale Waste Tech Accelerator is starting soon.

Startup Weekend’s foray into the Web3 metaverse is commencing.

And I still don’t get the hype about the MCU’s phase 5.

-

How’s your July been?

-

#startups #business #startupx #growth #success #socialmedia #culture #strategy #eth #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #nft #branding #web3 #cryptopunks #july