He passed on Chime, although he invested in a bunch of great companies like Coinbase. So amazing investor. One of the best in FinTech.
“He passed on Chime, although he invested in a bunch of great companies like Coinbase, like, like many others.”
He passed on Chime, although he invested in a bunch of great companies like Coinbase, like, like many others. Right? So amazing investor. One of the best in FinTech. So he and he was the first one to speak with Chime on seed round. And Chime founders, you know, that they just made this Green Dot before sold it and they started doing what they did with Green Dot. But Green Dot was like this paper based, like out of the
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Demonstrates that even top-tier investors with great track records (Coinbase investor) can miss obvious opportunities. The juxtaposition of success (Coinbase) with the miss (Chime) makes the point about how difficult venture investing really is.
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