Marek Olszewski

And it's finally, finally kind of working.

It's finally taking off.

We're really just excited about it.

Yeah.

And you know what?

Actually, you know, 2013 is an interesting year.

It's the year that I sold my first startup.

And literally a week later, I was at a music festival where I bumped into Brian Armstrong, who sent me... I knew there was something there.

There's Outside Lands.

It's kind of like the closest infrastructure that San Francisco has.

Yeah.

And yeah, we were both just invited by actually by SVB, the Cabana.

And this was back when SVB, I guess, banked crypto exchanges super early on.

And, yeah, he was very excited, obviously, about Coinbase and sent me some Bitcoin, which I've kept to this day.

And, you know, the experience was really lovely.

And in a way, you can think of that as being actually inspiration for what we wanted to do, but we just wanted to do it in a trustless, decentralized way, right?

At a music festival?

If only I went straight into crypto right then and said, you know, we just sold our first company.

I had to stay at the acquiring company for a while.

And it took a while before I was ready to do my next thing.