As I'm sure you're very well aware, a lot of people criticize pump fun and like similar platforms saying it's gambling or it's the mean coin casino.

And I wondered what your response is to those critics.

I know, just like have a higher IQ, I guess.

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Today's guest is Noah Tweedale, co-founder of Pump Fun.

Welcome, Noah.

Hey, how's it going?

I'm really good.

I'm so excited to chat with you guys.

Pump Fun is clearly one of the biggest crypto successes in the last couple years.

It's become one of the fastest companies to reach not only profitability, but also

rake in huge amounts of revenue.

You recently cost $840 million in revenue.

Your company also recently raised $1.2 billion in an ICO.

You have even bigger ambitions to compete with social media giants.

But I want to talk about like the kind of the recent period because, you know, it's like not only have you had this wild ride the last couple years, but it's like been sort of condensed to this summer, I would say, with multiple ups and downs.

You know, obviously this ICO sold out quickly at the same time the platform was like losing market share and then got overtaken by

let's bonk. Then the token kind of dropped precipitously, but then recently Pump has now flipped

let's balk again to regain the majority of market share. Now more than 80% of coins in Solana

are being minted on Pump Fund again. And it feels like you're kind of on this upward trajectory. You've made a bunch of new announcements. So I was just curious, like, how are you feeling at this moment in time? Like, what are your general thoughts on everything that's happened? I mean, that's a cool question. Because I think, like, I mean, obviously the past sort of couple months was sort of pretty crazy, I guess, from the outside perspective. But I mean,

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