Blockchain Founders Fund

This week, we rang the Nasdaq closing bell. I'm still catching my breath. Some backstory on why this one means so much. I've spent my career backing the idea that technology should put power directly in the hands of the people who create value. Roundtable is that idea made real for a $200B media industry - publishers paid in real time and owning the audience they build. Today, it's a public company. Roundtable (NASDAQ: RTB) is now the world's first AI/DeFi enterprise platform built for premium media. Live in Times Square, beta complete, millions of users already on the network. Blockchain Founders Fund backed this at pre-seed, before the platform, before the users, when it was still mostly conviction. It became our largest investment to date, and I stepped in as CFO because the thesis was too clean to walk away from. We believed it early. Watching it ring the bell is something else entirely. A milestone like this has a lot of hands on it. None of it exists without @JamesCHeckman, whose original vision started all of it. @Eyal Hertzog, who invented the DeFi protocol the entire platform runs on. Bill Sornsin, who carried the product and technical execution. And Walton Comer, whose leadership as Chairman steered us through the merger and the listing. To the @RTB_io team, @__MikeAlexander, Will Heckman, @jacksonaltonh, @csmith, @alpGasimov, @mehabspeaks, Liz Larson, Trent Pool, @caseycraig_ , Lior Cohen Avioz, Or Bachar, Zac Kirscher, George Oliva, Steven Fletcher, and partners Mike Fisher, @ScottSalomonNFL , @Sam_Phalen, Brad Call, @BradMSchultz, @brendangulick22 and @massey_evan , this moment belongs to you. You built it. And to the @BlockchainFF team who lived in the diligence, the structuring, and the late-night problem-solving. Mansoor Madhavji, Hossam Hamdy, @AhanRajgor, @niravbakshi1, @ErnestTan - you know exactly what this one took. Pre-seed to the @NasdaqExchange. What a road. NASDAQ: RTB. Onwards.