Zaheer Ebtikar
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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I mean it it will take infinite iteration for any startup to kind of uh come to the right idea.
You know, even for plasma, it wasn't the original idea to like only focus around this kind of specific vertical, but that's kind of where we got to today.
We actually started off more on the Bitcoin side.
Um and that was a little bit more of the yeah, that was a little bit more of the focus earliest days and it it was very early days.
It wasn't like it didn't take long for us to kind of find the right footing, but um that was kind of the original uh point of view.
Even, you know, a year ago before we started Plasma One, um there was obviously you know, some debates internally around should we build out the in internal infrastructure first that we could go and facilitate other people to build a neobank.
No, actually it makes more sense for us to do it ourselves.
So
Even there it's like little bits of you know trade offs that we have to make.
Yeah, of the big bets that we made, I think, you know
Uh one of the first ones w that we made was we
Obviously want to build a stable coin chain.
Um I think the second big bet that we made, and that was, you know, pretty quickly vindicated, I think maybe six months after the idea kind of um started to formalize.
I think the next big bet we made was that we wanted to have an ICO.
We wanted to have as much distribution as possible for the token, um, and to give as many investors as po you know uh as as possible the opportunity to participate.
Um so I think we were the largest and the first ICO in like
six, seven years in c in crypto.
Um and it went you know, it was very successful and still very successful today, which we're we're very happy about.
Um
that that we never traded below the ICA uh ICO price uh as a as a token, which I think was
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