Crypto is really strange because to this day it has the most lopsided reward <> talent distribution in the world. At every level, be it traders, devs BD, product, the returns to being 90th percentile are astronomically high relative to other fields. And if you’re 99th percentile? You can just build a company that goes from $0 to ~$50,000,000,000 (that’s 50 billion) in peak value in about 2 years It’s stunning that this gigantic golden carrot of a dangling incentive has been so starkly insufficient to draw in real talent, who’d rather beg to be invited to mid-40 year old tech VC basements in SF for “bonding time” or whatever I mean really think about it. Worldwide talent is choosing illiquid shares backed by Technodiddys over global cryptographic markets The only thing traditional markets have over crypto is status. Crypto’s F- tier reputation versus the pristine Ivory Towers of SF makes all the difference. Just goes to show status is one of. If not the overriding force in human relations.