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Feb 28, 2023·edited Feb 28, 2023Liked by CROWDSCALE

I’ve always wanted to see behind the curtain to see how much other investors like myself are spending. Thank you for sharing. We have a few of the same investments.

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Feb 28, 2023Liked by CROWDSCALE

hooray! the post we've all been waiting for

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Mar 8, 2023·edited Mar 8, 2023

Hello, I already commented, but just wanted to pop on and say that I've invested in 84 companies over the last 4 years (highly diversified I know), and as of a few days ago I actually hadn't received any sort of news that a single one of them had failed. Kinda surprising, and honestly I haven't really heard from many of them so it's possible that they have failed and have more to worry about than letting investors know...but anyways I did just receive an official email saying that one company was dissolved, sparking a kind of camaraderie with this post. We know what the odds are, and even though you wish each company succeeded, it's unlikely that they will, and part of the excitement of all of this is to see the process play out. What's interesting is to see how the companies you expect to succeed won't and the ones that you had little faith in will end up surviving and thriving. Luckily for me, my diversification strategy allows me to not stress too much about it. In fact, within 24 hours of receiving the bad news on the one company, another company announced their last funding round before IPO at over 3X the valuation I purchased my shares at, and several other companies have "paper gains" either through additional funding rounds or potential upcoming IPOs. I'd like to see a massive return and buy something cool, but as of right now, my paper gain on my most bullish investment covers my total investment across all companies by 2 and that's a good enough strategy for me (to at least not lose money). I'll let you know if it all comes crashing to the ground.

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If I have a business that needs investors, where do you recommend I list my business?

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Also its amazing all of this money flowing into these types of investments, but almost zero mention of any companies IPOing or offering any kind of real return, and I have been making these investments for like 7 years.

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Also the one web3 company I invested went belly up, the ceo is a huge putz that seems to hop and skip from project to project while enjoying lavish vacations it seems. Supposedly he is offering us some kind of crypto named after him soon not based at all on original company, what an ego.

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I also invested in whiteclouds and a number of others

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I thought you invested in Laneaxis

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Great to see your transparency spirit Kevin. My first awareness of you was infact from your Atombeam YouTube video while I was browsing thru all possible resources to know more about that business. Yes, of all the startups, Atombeam excites me the most. If they can manage to survive this cycle of broader market uncertainty, I believe there is a moonshot there.

Thought you invested in lets go offline too.. the restaurant and local events subscription business.

Best

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