Speaker Interview: Bryan Pellegrino l KBW2024

[Music] I think the coreless feature still is is just the core it's just a mutable messaging end to end it's a very simple concept like a packet on the internet a packet on the Internet is a very stupid thing it's just like a small piece of bites that we're passing from computer to computer what you can build on top of that is like Limitless everything that we do today every game that we play every time we're calling our uh friends or our spouse on a uh FaceTime you all of these are built on these these protocols that have like this very simple primitive um and I think that elegant primitive has you know there's tens of billions of dollars secured today $60 billion dollar transferred uh marching towards a 100 billion and uh just the the purity of this small primitive that enables the world above it I I think is just [Music] awesome I don't take much time off um I used to love uh I Used to Love video games I used to play a lot I don't uh I don't have much time for it anymore I think the one thing I still get out and do sometimes is uh I ski and I I play a little bit of basketball when I travel [Music] so I have three kids most people think I'm too young for that but [Music] yeah I think telegram is the most interesting ecosystem in the space right now I think this 900 million user pool uh is just the closest thing the space has to to bootstrapping like real real adoption sort of at scale um so for things where we're already on 85 chains so I think we've already covered most of it but for things that are unexplored right now I think uh you know mo most people have that as kind of the most interesting [Music] Frontier I think it's just growing grow a team and building a company right like we uh we had zero plans to start a company this was like me and my two co-founders were building for fun in my basement right and it took us years and years and eventually we came up with this idea that we had a ton of conviction on and we we loved the technology part we built the technology uh that's great that's what we're very good at but then it came to like okay now you have to build like a like a worldclass organization around at a team and now we're 105 people and I think there's a lot of a lot of a lot of learnings and a lot of pain in growing from uh from 3 to 25 to 105 um and I just think that's I think every founder goes through it but I think that for sure is uh is the most challenging part by far the tech we we we understand the tech we know what we're building and we're good at it