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William Quigley

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436 total appearances

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Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

I guess...

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

Sure, I guess I would say I'd put it this way.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

And I do launch a lot of new businesses.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

Most of them fail.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

So I have a lot of experience in failure and some experience in success.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

It would be digital in nature.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

I wouldn't be interested in anything that requires a massive amount of CapEx.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

So I wouldn't do that.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

Wouldn't be building data centers.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

Not that you can't make money doing that, but that's just... I like the...

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

the efficiency of pure digital businesses, it would probably, for me, be in an area where I already have deep insight.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

That would be probably video gaming.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

And if not video gaming, then something in the crypto space, simply because I have a lot of insight into those markets.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

I would focus on a product or a service that has a global impact

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

uh, demand and where, um, the benefits of being a first mover are very high.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

That last one is extremely high bar, very difficult.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

It's almost never the case that the first mover wins.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

But when, so when you find a business where the first mover can enjoy a very big advantage and the advantage could simply be that as a result of being the first to pitch the VCs, you get a lot of VC money that allows you to weather all the competition that's going to drive down margins.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

So, and I guess one last thing I might say is, is a business that is focused on broadly entertainment.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

I tend to like things that are entertainment versus let's say that are strictly there for utility.