Vincent (@0xvincent) • Hey
Entrepreneur building Web3 in the Nordics!
Publications
- Took over a crypto company on Monday. Going to Luca Netz it.
- While moving sucks as a process, it’s also rewarding as it serves as a natural pause in daily life operations where you are forced to think about what happened during the time you lived in X apartment / house.
Moving day soon, lot’s to reflect upon, hopefully last mini apartment, moving to bigboy places from hereon ❤️
- This publication is gated.
- Sometimes when things line up the anxiety hits hard.
When that happens, I find the best way of processing it is walk / run + sauna + journal.
What do you usually do?
- Stockholm in October almost making up for the fact I don’t have enough brypto exposure
- Gonna miss this view, moving aprtments soon!
- I have a feeling grappling / BJJ is going to absolutely blow up as a sport...
Over the past 1-2 years been seeing Gordon Ryan pop up everywhere, now seeing grappling tournaments being advertised and sponsered by big names (@tezos lol)
Very interesting trend
- I've debated myself for months about publishing this.
Finally decided, I want to keep it real with anyone who follows me here so lfg.
This is a story on how I went to 0, again..
Yeah that's right - during this year I nuked myself to 0.
My portfolio, both stocks and crypto went to 0, I have literally no assets.
Also have -$10k in FIAT debt that needs dealing with, ASAP!
If it wasn't for my partner I couldn't even make rent.
I'm 28 years old so it feels so cringe to be in this situation.
However, I also have to defend myself because it's not that I nuked my net worth because of idiot gambling (well just a little bit) or overspending (just a teeny tiny bit).
It's because I tried things - and failed.
Trying to build my first real company during the past 1.5 years has been massively draining but also insanely transformative.
First and foremost I needed some humbling. Definitely got that.
I've also learned an insane amount about team building and process oriented thinking.
Yet, here I am.
Empty handed and -$10k in debt.
Why did I end up here? We made some dumb decisions and took some risks that we had to pay for.
Those mistakes have been paid for, and life goes on from here.
This is not a thread about feeling sorry for myself or giving up.
Quite the contrary, this is a foreword for what's to come: a massive come up.
We're gonna run it back and make it all back times 100.
What's next for me?
While tying up the loose ends at my previous company I've been working on something new.
I'm not yet free to start working on it with focus and dedication, but very soon.
The comeback from here is going to be nothing less than grand.
Thanks for reading and I will be posting tons more going forward, so please stick around if you want to run it back together!
- The trade-off between security and freedom is super hard to balance imo.
Sweden, a country that’s been doing great for 1000+ years is crumbling in front of us because of the refusal to up authoritarianism.
Hope it gets fixed before it goes too far, love this place.
- "Was gonna post about not mocking Caroline for her looks but now noticed it's instead cool to post about how it's based to mock her for her looks"
- Was hitting some intervals on the track today.
Fucking hate sprints, intervals and training core. And guess what? My biggest weakpoints are sprinting and my core strength.
What aspects of training and/or life do you neglect?
- Writing a thread on all a16z crypto deals from Q3 - lot’s to be covered!!
- This series never gets old, even though the quality has declined since season 3.
Looking forward to season 7!
- Onboarded first client for new business still in stealth - taking on one more this month, no one signed yet. Back to the grind lfg 🤝
- According to Root data crypto VC activity is down -21% to a total of null.71 billion in venture capital deployed in Q3 2023.
Crypto VC activity is down -85% from its peak in Q1 2022.
According to EY (not sure if those guys can be trusted) venture backed companies raised $44.1 billion in Q1 2023 and then $29.4 billion in Q2, a nice -33% decline.
For crypto, the same numbers were $2.47 billion in Q1 and $2.18 billion in Q2 only an -11% decline.
Wen bottom?
- #StandwithBrypto
- Two fucking great things in 24 hours!
Locked down first client for new biz still in stealth mode
Leveled up to Level2 on Phaver!!
Celebrating with a fika for breakfast fueling for 10k run later
- Damn I miss @uponlytv.lens with ledger and cobie, peak 2021 bull run, so many gud memories
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGwT75QX0BYhMIy.jpg:large
- Saw Barbie yesterday, tbh it was a gud movie!
The Kens got me thinking about how many ego battles we have w each other as men, women probably do too, damn it’s kind of ridiculous.
- Ok so how does one grind up Phaver points and phaver cred in the best way?? Lfg
- Gm
- Imagine you’re on a plane from for example SG to the US. A 1 degree course correction can make all the difference as if you land in Tijuana Mexico or Los Angeles.
Now apply this to your life trajectory for the coming 5-10 years, what course correction can you make to land in your desired destination?
- Really interesting, gf getting approached by people on Twitter to help create content for them and share ad revenue split.
All the risks involved due to not being able to share revenue in a trustless manner, not being able to co-create are insane! Bullish on LENS PROTOCOL!
- About to drop some alpha. The guys at aarnâ protocol have been working really hard over the past months to launch their beta.
Beta is live. Rewards program is live. AI engine is live WITH RESULTS. Go check them out or regret it later!
- Grinding from the car! How’s everyones Thursday going??
- Dreamt I attended school in Elon Musks X officr but it went fully bankrupt… not sure what the read is?
- One of those fkn days with 17 things on the todo list. Grind hard and then tennis w some beers 🍻
- One of the best books one can listen to while running. Training for a half marathon right now and been enjoying the F out of this.
- Oh man the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, requires som serious mental illness to get through it all..
- Running in the worst rain weather today, LFG
- You frequently hear people mention poker as very benefitial experience for entrepreneurship, trading, investing etc. Why do you think that is?
Personally I think its because of the probabilistic thinking you need to develop to be successful at poker
- Ngl bootstrapping when you have nothing is fucking blood, sweat and tears.
- Is this a time to be bullish or bearish on ETH/BTC? BTC Bullish catalysts with Blackrock ETFs etc. Layer 2 bullish activity, what happens to layer 1 and its native token?
- The weeks are long but the decades are fast.
Learn to focus on doing the right things week in week out and the rest will sort itself out over time.
- Gm from the motherland 🇫🇮
- The stress of trying to build a company and feeling like you’re not getting anywhere is fucking gruelling. But when you get traction it’s all worth it, or at least that’s what I’m trying to tell myself! 🥶
- Building great relationships is easy but hard at the same time. It’s basically underpromise overdeliver or just make promises keep promises, but for me personally, getting optimistic and hyping things up too much is one of my biggest weaknesses. Anyone else feel the same?
- Gm! Another day anothet dolla 🥰
- Gm frens it’s a beautiful Thursday in Stockholm ❤️☀️
- Friend just got banned from Twitter for no reason. Elon also fired all customer support so he only gets bot replies. If only there was a solution to this 🤔🤔 LFG LENS PROTOCOL!
- Pretty exciting to see a16z open up an office in London!
- Showing a friend of mine around my hometown Helsinki today, any Finns here with recommendations of what he must see? 😎🇫🇮
- Cheers to all swedes celebrating national day!
- GM!
Fooken beautiful mornin’
- Building a really cool analytics tool for NFTs, anyone wanna try it out next week? 😎
- Gm another beautiful morning on lens!
- GM!
SF was fuckking amazing! Back in Sthlm now, new inspiration, ready to fkn grind.
- Gm! Flying to SF today, any recommendations? 🌉
- them accessories a la rAAVE Lisbon II
- Brypto