Serial Entrepreneur | Forbes 30U30 | Fintech/AI

New York, United States
Joined October 2016
Trying the new flying Tesla. Thanks Elon! #Tesla #roadster #elonmusk
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#Coinbase got paid $1.4 billion last year for something your company does for free. It held customer dollars. That is the whole trick. #Circle keeps the interest on the Treasuries behind #USDC and pays Coinbase for every dollar parked on its platform... -> t.me/rodaskarov/4847
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The SEC just legalized onchain stock trading. Two days after Congress failed to. This is HUGE. The catch: almost nothing trading onchain today qualifies. Everyone will call this the floodgates opening. Wrong read. Read->t.me/rodaskarov/4822 Source-> sec.gov/newsroom/press-relea…
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After a 27-year drought, the New York Knicks are headed to the N.B.A. finals. Fans flooded the streets of the city in celebration. #Knicks #NBA #basketball #nyknicks #brunson @nyknicks @NBA @TheGarden – at Tajikistan
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Atlas just got very real #BostonDynamics has shown the latest generation of #Atlas in motion. This version is fully electric, stands 6.2 ft tall, weighs 198 lb, and is built for industrial work. Atlas has 56 degrees... #robotics #humanoid #robot #ai #artificialintelligence – at Weehawken, NJ
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#OpenAI and #Anthropic just gave you a $5.5BN reason to start an #AI-native service provider. Not because they're becoming #AInative service providers themselves. They're not. But what they ARE doing tells you everything about where the value is moving... t.me/rodaskarov/4607 – at Weehawken, NJ
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#Aave, largest #DeFi platform, sees ~$5B in outflows (≈25% of AUM) following a ~$290M exploit Aave, the biggest DeFi platform accounting for 25% of the $100B of value locked in DeFi, saw its TVL tumble from $25B to $20B in a few hours as one of its... forbes.com/sites/digital-ass… – at Weehawken, NJ
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This is the story of #Hyperliquid, the most profitable #startup per employee on earth, told from a guarded office in Singapore. Last year its team of 11 generated $900 million in profit. It's 3 years old, has never taken #venturecapital #crypto #blockchain t.me/rodaskarov/4536 – at Weehawken, NJ
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Today #Perplexity is announcing the Billion Dollar Build. 8-week to build a company with a path to $1B. Finalists have the opportunity to secure up to $1M in investment from the Perplexity Fund perplexity.ai/computer/a/the… #ai #artificialintelligence #startup #entrepreneurship – at Weehawken, NJ
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.   On April 6, 2026, the #Artemis II astronauts flew around the #Moon, seeing parts of it that had never been viewed by human eyes. They captured what they saw in words and in photos—swipe through to see what they shared. #NASA #Earthrise – at Weehawken, NJ
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Happy childhoods don't build unicorns. Chamath has been saying this for years — and he's not being provocative about it. He's describing what he actually observes. His grant programme funds... ->> t.me/rodaskarov #Chamath #Founders #Startups #unitedstates #siliconvalley – at Weehawken, NJ
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The game has changed. In 2026, building a #startup no longer requires millions in capital. Look at this stack: → #Claude, #ChatGPT, #Perplexity for intelligence → #Cursor, #Replit for building → #Figma, #Canva for design → #Zapier, n8n for automation You don’t need a team. – at Weehawken, NJ
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Attention becomes the only moat. This is the new startup equation: Build fast → Test fast → Distribute faster If you nail: 1. A real problem 2. A product people actually want 3. A distribution engine You don’t just build a startup. You’re on the path to a unicorn. – at Weehawken, NJ
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The first one-man billion-dollar company was not a SaaS startup. It was a distribution machine. Matthew G. spent $20,000, opened ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, and vibe-coded. No team. No VC. No board. His company, Medvi, sells GLP-1 weight-loss treatment... =>t.me/rodaskarov/4501 – at Weehawken, NJ
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