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Vitalik Buterin
- Founder of Ethereum
- $500 billion market capitalization
🎙 Acquired recently put out an episode about Ethereum and its founder Vitalik Buterin…
If you thought Mark Zuckerberg IPO-ing Facebook at $100B by age 27 was something, just wait until you hear the story of this high school junior creating $500B (!!) of market cap by the same age…
It’s a crazy story, but what especially struck me was how Vitalik got into crypto in the first place: as a freelance writer at the age of 17.
The first article he wrote about Bitcoin earned him the equivalent of $3.50.
Through his writing and research, Vitalik learned a ton about crypto, networked with key people, and built up a big following… all of which helped him go on to create Ethereum.
Coincidentally, How I Built This recently did an episode on how Mailchimp grew to $800 million in annual revenue 💰
Ben Chestnut and his co-founders actually started out as freelance web designers in the early 2000’s. It was a few years before email marketing software became their main thing.
All that to say: big successes usually have humble beginnings.
Dream big, start small.
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