i love our team

i've been a founder for a bit and built a few different companies, each with their own lessons

1st co - small team but hyper aligned & completely locked in. despite being complete outsiders to the industry, we were shipping like mad and running laps around the entire industry, taking customers left and right from a company with 4500+ employees 

it was one of the defining experiences of my career to have perfect alignment between market, vision, team, and execution. everything just worked. but unfort we sold too quickly.

2nd co - we were building in a great market that was growing fast & ripe for disruption. was ultimately a success financially but we missed one piece - we sacrificed on team quality. we were good, not great. and eventually it caught up to us. good teams evolve markets. great teams create & reinvent markets. unfort we did the former. 

3rd co - great team, great branding, but awful market. some markets are a mirage - they appear large but once you get close you realize its actually not. and while we weren't perfect on execution, nothing can fix a bad market. as warren buffet say - "when brilliant team tackle a bad biz, it is the reputation of the biz that remains intact"

@teddyP_xyz @eyqshen and I started @plumenetwork to build a generational protocol. we've been gifted an once in a lifetime opportunity - an endlessly large market & incredible market timing

and so the remaining piece is the team. we've been very deliberate about building out our team & we're incredibly fortunate to get to work with all the folks at @plumenetwork. we aren't perfect but watching this team execute, learn, grow, adapt, and work with the our community has been one of the most rewarding things I've ever done

study bill campbell who took the shittiest team in the NFL to one of the greatest of all time. and he did it by focusing on the inputs - not only building the team but then making sure we all show up every single day in full force. 

the only thing we ask for at plume is that every single person here focuses on 1 thing -- getting 1% better a day. it's not a lot but the rewards over time are enormous. if you do that then everything else will take of care of itself

more to come. goons up. much love and shout out to those grinding rn !!