# 2021, Wrapped.

By [Manan Gouhari](https://paragraph.com/@manan-gouhari) · 2022-01-07

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2021 was the year where I went from being a little kid trying to navigate the crypto space to a crypto-native degen kid XD

It was the year for doubling down on crypto after working for four months in the space. It was the year when I finally realized the crypto is where I'm going to be at, for the next few years at least.

I'm going to keep this incredibly short;

### 2021 in ten lines →

🛠 // launched two crypto products,

✨ // went from working on my first project to taking charge of the whole tech on a project, and then being a founding partner in a venture

🏖 // took a long and proper vacation after a long while, Austria was fun

🚀 // joined a kick-ass team to build a DeFi product

💔 // broke up with my long-term girlfriend, after an amazing three years

🛳 // shipped two side projects that I'm proud of

🏫 // tried to convince my fam to let me drop out, settled on the compromise of barely passing college for the sake of the degree :P

🤝 // made amazing frens,

🥳 // learned a bunch about NFTs & DeFi,

📈 // honestly, I felt like I leveled up this year.

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2021 was a fun ride, set me up for **2022 that's going to be parabolic 🚀**

Can't wait to ship cool-ass products, have fun with frens, go on nice dates, learn a shit ton, collaborate with online frens, and have fun.

And if you’re interested in learning more about my journey into tech & crypto, you’ll love reading through my [website](https://manangouhari.com), or if you wanna read my 80% shitposts & 20% quality tweets, here’s my [twitter](https://twitter.com/manangouhari)

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*Originally published on [Manan Gouhari](https://paragraph.com/@manan-gouhari/2021-wrapped)*