João Nuno Simões

They are not accountable for anything.

So if you go to events, if you meet people face to face, it's so much more easier to have a connection, to have a client, to have a business partner and to actually understand and know what you are doing.

Especially for us that we are working with people's money on hyperwave.

Yes.

Like if I ask you, Sam, okay, please bring your $1 million to our vault tomorrow.

Okay, if you don't know me, you are like, why?

You know, but if you already know me and if you already been with me a million times and if already, I don't know, got some beers, went for a nice dinner, maybe you say, OK, maybe I don't bring one million, but I can bring half a million to test it out, you know, because if something goes wrong, I know you and I can actually go to your house and kill you probably, you know, and sue you, you know, and that's how it is.

People need to be accountable, you know.

Like, it is true.

And I think in crypto, people need to value more the face-to-face interactions, you know?

So go to events, learn, find your future business partner, your future client, talk with people, you know, like we are in a big society.

We are like human beings that like to talk and like to be with people.

And then I can say that it's way easier to start your community, to be with your community, to build your product.

Or if you are building a product for someone else or if you are in sales, again, way easier to sell when you are actually meeting people, going to events.

If you are more a CTO, a tech partner, again, there are so many events specifically for tech, for you to learn more, for you to, again, maybe meet a team or maybe meet more people with the same interests as you.

And it's so different from meeting people in real life than meeting people in a Discord server randomly, you know.

Of course, it sometimes is important and is very important to have your Discord community.

But it is also very important to go to events.

And I'm happy that this year there is more events than ever.

I'm probably going to be traveling like 11 months this year.