Taking Risks with an Early Network Age Investor

Kinode Office Hours

In this extra special episode, the boys are joined by ~bitmep-faswyn, co-founder of Assembly Capital, to explore the risks, benefits, and excitement of early investment—whether funding developing technology like Urbit or building Network Age infrastructure in Latin America. Bitmep also discusses how his personal journey, from Texas football star to Harvard grad to recovering addict, shaped his optimistic, human-centered approach to investment. All this plus Friday Night Lights, Harvard gossip, and the benefits of drinking baby blood.

Timestamps:

0:00—Intro

1:38—Assembly Capital and Early Urbit Investment

8:11—Network Age investment in Latin America

12:16—A Modern Medici? Building a better world through investment

18:03—The benefits of investing early

23:28—The development of Urbit (and growing outsider interest)

32:18—Harvard: we all went there. Did we learn anything?

38:45—Bitmep's personal journey and learning from rock bottom

46:47—Disillusionment with the establishment

50:20—The Network Age: A more human way of living

1:00:00—Predicting the future and "definite optimism"

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