You're competing against a whole bunch of dumb idiots that are moving as fast as they can,

and effectively they just pick the right kind of market and the right products.

But this is the only way you can actually succeed.

A lot of founders, engineers, or whatever, are very analytically intelligent, and they analyze risk.

And they're like, like well I'm not

100% sure that I need to do this but at some level you kind of have to make that

gut decision that the only way I can win is if I picked you know a horse and I

stick with it so we are at a very unique time in the space.

I think we all collectively have an opportunity to help the space break out of its OG niche

and become a mainstream technology.

Solana has been at the center of that from the very start.

I'm curious, what would you advise the Solana community to do to really take

advantage of that opportunity? I think, you know, if you kind of look back at the early days

2017 and prior to that, people had like a ton of ideas about everything that could be possible

with crypto. And they were just one or two cycles early.

I think basically when you see technology go through stages and maturity,

just like with the dot-com era, you know, Pets.com was a little too early.

And now that the technology is mature, it's time to build those businesses

and try to find product market fit. All the ideas were the right ideas. They were just the timing was off. And

that's usually how it goes with tech and startups. So rethink of what's possible today,

given the speed and the reach and the throughput of Solana and try to build those

businesses from the ground up.

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