Patrick | Megapot (@Patrick_Lung) on X (original) (raw)

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  I’ve been working on Megapot for two years. It started as an experiment, then players from 124 countries showed up, we paid out 19 jackpot winners, and the jackpot crossed 1M.Today,we’reannouncingour1M. Today, we’re announcing our 1M.Today,we’reannouncingour5M round led by Dragonfly
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  Excited to announce what I’ve been working on: An onchain lottery powered by liquidity providers ✨ Story time ✨
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  We're hiring founding protocol and frontend engineers for
  @megapot
  • 225ksalaryand3225k salary and 3% equity • 225ksalaryand35M raised from Tier 1 crypto VCs; founders of world's largest iGaming brands • Fully remote in North America • No-BS interview process 🧵
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  "sad but true" tbh i'm sad to see farcaster turn into a trading app as well as glad they finally embraced it love these takeaways from years in the trenches from
  @dwr
  and
  @tednotlasso
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  Last time I came to NYC to fundraise, I stayed in a hostel and ate dried cereal every day I was bootstrapped and hadn't had a salary for over a year. No regrets. Frugality gave me time to iterate on dozens of ideas Just landed in NYC and am staying in a hotel this time :)
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  I left
  @Uniswap
  last week. Grateful to learn from the most talented team in web3 and proud of what we built. Next up - I’m exploring startup ideas, both in/outside of crypto,
  @southpkcommons
  . For those in SF, come by! I wrote about my reasons here:
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  Thank you
  @brian_armstrong@jesse_pollak@davidtsocy
  and the entire
  @base
  team for building the super app to bring millions of users onchain 🟦
  @megapot
  is already live as a Base mini app, and proudly supporting many mini apps using our protocol as a sweepstakes feature!
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  I'm so excited to launch Megapot V2 While I'm proud of all the improvements, I wanted to answer the # 1 question I get asked: "why are you building a gambling app when you can literally build anything else?" 🧵
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  I've never been tagged more than today Cool to see how building in public and posting a consistent message over time can pay off
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  i don't want to know how much time
  @jessepollak
  spends on X every day
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  hey, wanna be a founding designer at my startup? btw we're going to give you more equity (2%) than any comparable eng offer at a startup that has raised $5M interviewing is respectful: three calls, an offer review, paid 3-day work trial where our design advisors evaluate you
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  got to meet
  @HeetTike
  two weeks ago when he was in town! loved hearing about what hypergrowth looks like at
  @noicedotso
  and all the lessons from his last startup experience