Recently I have made an important decision in my life. I quit my job to start my own crypto-company with the friends of mine. Here is the motivational letter, which I wrote to one of them. He refused to join me, but I think that the letter itself may be interesting for some of you. It sums up my thoughts about the future, crypto and motivation in life.
Enjoy!
***, as I promised, I’m writing this to explain you my motivation about some of the decisions that I’m about to undertake in my life. I don’t expect you to change your opinion and don’t demand anything form you. This text is the summary of what I’m proposing to you, and it is made just for your convenience.
I’m 25 and it feels like the life just going away from me. I haven’t done anything significant, which I can be proud of. However, at the end of the last summer , I rethought my plans for the future and painted a vision of being on the forefront of the next waves of technological innovation that about to happen in the upcoming years. The world is about to change many times, and the changes are the times of great opportunities. The technological innovation can give you everything you want: money — because it is related to the creation of immense new value, influence — because it destroys the incumbent structures and transforms the way people live and last but not the least — FUN, because who wouldn’t like to have some cool new freaking-flying car or a lucrative banking business in a VR world?
As I’m neither an engineer nor a scientist, I identified the most realistic entry point into the new technologies for my humble experience in economics and finance — blockchain and cryptocurrencies. I started in the end of September 2017 and have been in the space for six months already, and it has been absolutely amazing experience, ***. Theft, illegal trade, market manipulation, insider trading, masses of quick money idiots, bitcoin fanatics, dogecoin believers, ICO shillers, cryptokitties and about-to-eat-his-dick John McAfee. Absolutely amazing.
I started with an extensive self-education, market observation, playing with small sums, reading articles, books, watching videos and talking to rare developers. Nothing particularly special and hard in my opinion. Two month ago I realized that the flow of information is far too strong for me to handle it alone. Thus, I decided to join professionals, who have been in the space for years. The reality deeply disappointed me. Most people in the crypto-fund industry in Russia (and I suspect in other places as well) are just the lucky winners born by the great bull market of 2017. With the coming of a bit of the bear market of 2018, nonsurprisingly, these cryptofunds go bankrupt or fall faster then the market. In addition to this, in our fund we cannot find decent specialists in crypto (for good money) and the analysis of ICOs, which was made by the friendly crypto fund with 10 people team and a year experience is almost identical to mine or worse.
The take away? Working for other companies in Russia cannot provide me with the better expertise than I can reach alone. They have money, but so do I. My *** inheritance is more than enough. They have “an insider access” the the deals? Nope. The Russian crypto funds are useless to the decent projects, as they cannot provide any value other than money. In addition, my friend in Singapore was able to find a way to invest our money through legal channels in some of the best ICOs.
The highs we can reach in the space are breathtaking. The cryptocurrencies are for modeling the socio-economic systems, which are international, open and exciting. Some of the platforms are going to implement their own CONSTITUTIONS, to have nodes that are effectively ‘politicians’, to create such new jobs as “crypto-judges” (people, who resolve issues with hacks and bugs) and to build new ways in what community can interact with them.
Not impressed? Imagine what will be in 5 years
, when cryptocurrencies become fully integrated with VR. The whole new WORLDS with their laws, politics and economics will emerge. And I’m definitely going to be a part of it.
What is there most important, I don’t want to do it all alone. The single most valuable thing for people, according to a popular research, are relationships with other people. Any success in my life won’t be full without my friends and my family. Thus, I don’t want my company, I want OUR company. I need my friends to make big things happen because, as it turned out your are the most talented and enthusiastic people I have ever known and it is so much FUN to be with you. If such people like us join their efforts together the success is not the question, instead, WHEN is the right one. Eventually, we will do something absolutely amazing in this world.
I’m quitting my job tomorrow. I will start the adventure. See you someday, my friend!
Me and a friend of mine during our trip to China
