Jack Mallers

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What Bitcoin Did · Jack Mallers: Why I Left Twenty One · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Now, Strike turns out to be a very successful thing, very profitable now, big company.

Now, what I tell myself and what I tell my employees all the time is how expensive were the lessons that I acquired in that moment?

Think about that in hindsight.

And that goes back to what I wrote in the essay, what punishments are not gifts?

Because I acquired a wealth of knowledge, experience, really, really painful but valuable tutorial of how to build things, who to trust, how to set up Strike.

I acquired that, Danny.

I didn't lose a limb.

I didn't lose my parents.

I didn't lose my business.

I didn't lose my friends.

I didn't lose any Bitcoins.

I just took a couple really tough punches to the ego and needed to adopt a decent amount of humility and just emotional pain.

And so, I don't know, that chapter of my life

And it was very hard.

Like, oh, Jack is a hype marketing, over-promising, all of the things.

And some of those things hurt because you start to question like, is that true?

But then once you stay the course and you see the other side, you realize like things that you mistake for punishments are really just gifts.

The world had to teach me a lot if I wanted to become the man that I am now.

And how else would I have acquired what I needed to acquire if it wasn't then and if it wasn't that?

It could have been a lot worse or I could have never acquired it at all.

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