Code Sovereign: Why I Left Venture to Build in Web3
Three years ago, I sat in a glass conference room with a term sheet in front of me and a slide deck behind me. We were raising a $25M growth fund, backing startups we believed would define the next decade. I was playing the role of strategist, closer, optimist. But deep down, I didn’t believe in the game anymore. Too many cap tables were bloated with capital that had no clue how the product worked. Too many “founders” were actually just marketers with great suits. Too many AI startups were running fine-tuned prompts on top of GPT. And too many venture firms had become financial cosplayers—raising from LPs on trend-chasing decks with no tech soul. So I left. I moved to Berlin. And I started writing Solidity in silence. From Pitch Decks to Git Commits Crypto doesn't care about your pedigree. It doesn't care what college you went to. And it doesn’t care how charismatic your board meetings are. What matters is: · ...