Joan Alavedra

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I think initially what these investors are betting on early on pre-seeds and seeds, it's mostly on the team.

And so obviously, if you showcase that you have product sense, like product taste, and that you are answering the why now question correctly, or in a way that makes sense for their investment thesis, I think that kind of like increases the odds of having a successful round.

Yeah, the why now in the wallet space or like in what?

Yes, yes, for OpenFort, yes.

Yeah, I think for OpenFort,

The two things that I would point out, it's one, it's never been more clear that everyone will have their own wallets, but that we will also have many wallet technology involved in everything related to stablecoins.

So that means that you will have smart contracts that will act as escrows and you'll have technology for that, that you will have smart contracts act as a permission layer to, you know, automatize pull and push payments.

So this technology, if anything, it will get better and better and more like mass adopted for enterprises and developers.

And I think, I mean, I honestly think that it's one of the spaces where there's so much things to do in wallet that you can raise in different verticals and angles and still have like a very solidified and big time.

Like for instance, one of the bigger narratives now as well is privacy, right?

And so in privacy, you can raise, you know, you can raise around for either focusing on having an encrypted blockchain or a private focused blockchain.

But you can also raise a round by making privacy related to wallets.

And with that factor, you have like another huge vertical where you can literally justify that many of the payments that we are doing today in the blockchain are public.

And not many companies want to expose this public information to the outside.

And so they need a solution.

That was a feature for many, you know, consumer products back in 2015 with like the Venmos, the cash apps where you could see like what your friends are buying and stuff like that.

Yeah, I would argue.

Yeah, that's true.