Kozz

Now that I’m finally on my way home - some thoughts as a first time visitor to both Token and Singapore: - great country. Safe. People are friendly. Easy to get around. - you simply cannot replace the value of face to face meetings with your customers and clients. More progress in a relationship from visiting someone’s office for 45 minutes than in weeks of slack messages, emails, and video calls - I spent ~20 minutes at the actual conference, and think that was within +/- 30 minutes of the optimal amount of time to spend at the conference. The value (imo - at least for my job purposes) was primarily in small gatherings and conversations over tea/coffee - within 2 years there are unlikely to be >5 companies that call themselves “crypto” companies. It has become exceeding clear to me that everyone now realizes “crypto” is just a piece of any future successful fintech company. The lines have become blurred, and a “pure” crypto company likely needs to do more than just crypto going forward. - payments (stablecoins). Perps. Predictions. Called those as the only 3 themes that really mattered in crypto a little over a year ago…even higher conviction in that atm. Maybe something else shows up, but clear that they hold a dominant position atm. - hosting your own side events is imo one of the highest value things you can do at these conferences, provided you can execute - found a bunch of animals (Pokemon) to take back to my kids. Related - Eastern stores have way cooler Pokemon stuff than America. - had never watched F1, but thoroughly enjoyed the live experience