Rob Bailey

@RMB

CEO & Co-Founder, MState. I invest in enterprise blockchain companies. NYC / SF. Cook in my spare time.

New York, NY
Joined January 2009
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  1. 38 minutes ago

    Raising a Seed at too high a valuation isn’t a blessing, it’s usually a curse. Usually means you have to put way more points on the board to raise the next round or hope that the market stays crazy.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Worst kind of board member: Frequently wrong, never in doubt.

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  3. 8 hours ago

    As a newer VC, I constantly look for people smarter than me with different viewpoints on companies, protocols, etc. I learn more from them than from talking to people I agree with.

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Advisor roles are usually just BS exchanges of small amounts of equity for renting people’s names 90% of the time. They are mostly noise and not really a part of how we evaluate a company.

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  5. 8 hours ago

    If you want to see how committed an investor really is to blockchain and your company, ask them about their policies around selling tokens.

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  6. 9 hours ago

    Hype-checking crypto investments: partner dropping knowledge about slow money!

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  7. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

    Woah

    Next up: Kraken laying off scores off new hires and shutting down at least one office (h/t who found this 👇on Reddit)
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    17 hours ago

    If you lived in Argentina, and instead of holding pesos, you converted them to Bitcoin at the beginning of the year, then you would have lost even more money.

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    22 hours ago

    Goldman Sachs putting its crypto trading desk on hold is not a ”retreat” from crypto in any way - the firm is just redirecting its focus to custodian solutions while the regulatory situation for a trading desk becomes clearer

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    Sep 5

    ⌛⌛TWO MONTHS 'TIL MIDTERMS! where and i are spending our energy:

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  11. Sep 5

    The single most effective way to get a VC's attention in a meeting is to ask them a question. Great to see founders use this tactic effectively in pitch meetings. Also shifts conversational dynamic.

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  13. Sep 5

    OH: "Only East Coast people talk about summer. There isn't summer in SF."

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  14. Sep 5

    #1 Complaint From Founders: Fat Protocol thesis led to way too many incomplete/premature companies getting (over)funded. And yet we don't have enough solid options for DApps trying to build real applications for production in enterprise.

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    Sep 4

    Levi Strauss comes out in support of gun control. Nike hires Kaepernick in powerful campaign supporting his message. Meanwhile Twitter refuses to honor their own ToS and gives a voice to the deranged Alex Jones. Silicon Valley need to step up. Other companies certainly are.

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    Sep 5

    JUST IN: Blockchain developer Spacemesh has raised $15 million as part of its quest to develop a new kind of consensus algorithm called proof-of-space-time.

    8 replies 44 retweets 92 likes
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    Sep 4

    Bold prediction: shopping app does $5bn in GMV within 24 months of launch (or half of their rumored 2019 ad revenue). Social, discovery based commerce is a huge opportunity.

    Instagram is building a standalone app for shopping
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    Sep 5

    JUST IN: Civic needs a network of users, so it's offering free KYC for its business partners and funding the effort with its reserve of tokens.

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  19. Sep 4

    I can’t think of a more effective way to promote a brand (and its authenticity) than having thousands of racists try to destroy it. Well played .

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  20. Sep 4

    Take money from investors than hustle as hard as you do.

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