jonathan(love)wu
πΊπΈ investing $1m in the earliest founders in crypto and beyond @asylumventures. storytelling @fortyiq. married to @maggielove_. wife guy. God guy.
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It seems unintuitive that a small 25 basis point interest rate hike in Japan would spike all risk assets, including tonight's -20% $ETH candle. But you need to understand the way...
Startups treat journalists like vendors when they should treat them like VC's. Have a piece of news to announce? Pitch a journalist like you would pitch an investor. Here's how...
In 2017, I interviewed with Elizabeth Holmes to be Head of Finance at Theranos. I'm convinced I learned more in those 45 minutes than I did in 10 years of school and work. Today,...
I just read FTX's Chapter 11 First Day Affidavit. In it, the appointed restructuring CEO John Jay Ray III, who oversaw Enron's bankruptcy proceedings, calls FTX's case the worst o...
For those wondering how FTX printed money out of thin air: You have to understand what "low float, high FDV" means and why playing a market manipulation game with $FTT was key to...
FTX was the world's 3rd largest crypto exchange. Today it's said to be insolvent and in the midst of an acquisition by Binance. Here's everything you need to know about Alameda R...
Celsius. Babel. Voyager. BlockFi. Centralized crypto fintechs are in deep trouble and rumored to be facing insolvency. The former two froze user withdrawals. The latter two recei...
Celsius is one of the largest centralized gateways to crypto. It raised $864m of venture capital and at one point custodied over $3 billion of funds for 1m+ customers. As of toda...
An $18 billion stablecoin is losing its dollar peg with all the magical chaos of algorithmic stables, with a dash of Bitcoin systemic risk drama. Here's everything you need to kno...
No bullshit I think I just interviewed a North Korean hacker. Terrifying, hilarious, and a reminder to be paranoid and triple-check your OpSec practices. Here's how it went: π°π΅