story of @JHyperliquid

> don’t let anyone tell you the only way to win is to join a big firm, raise VC, and play nice
> get elite enough to beat the smartest people in the room
> go to Harvard
> work at HRT
> realize being highly paid inside a great machine is still just being a cog
> quit
> build a crypto startup too early
> fail
> move to Puerto Rico with $10k
> trade so well from a living room TV that you become one of the biggest anonymous players in crypto
> get rich
> realize the entire industry is still rebuilding the same broken middlemen crypto was supposed to kill
> watch FTX implode
> shut down your cash machine
> tell your team you are done trading
> build your own chain because every existing one is too slow
> launch a derivatives exchange with no VC, no insiders, no paid market makers, no dev fees
> let users keep custody instead of handing their money to an exchange
bootstrap liquidity by giving normal people access to your market-making engine
> turn down a $100 million VC check
> refuse to sell the cap table
> airdrop billions to users instead of investors
> make early users millionaires overnight
> burn nearly all protocol profits back into the token instead of extracting them to the company
> let outsiders launch markets for oil, gold, stocks, forex, and soon any event with an outcome
> turn an exchange into financial infrastructure
> do $900 million profit with 11 people
> become one of the most profitable startups per employee on earth
> get so successful you need a bodyguard to go outside
> end up looking less like a crypto founder and more like the guy rebuilding Nasdaq, CME, and Robinhood

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