[Music] for our fourth event of the year. We're back in New York. [Music] There's over 950 attendees here. This whole weekend is about building things and actually making ideas come to life. The companies that have come out of Me Global since our beginning have raised collectively over $500 million.
That's just the ones we can count. excited to start begin hacking in like I don't know twoish hours.
Everyone's so welcoming. They're like, "Hey, how are you? How are you?" And I'm like, "I know nothing."
Everyone's trying to learn from each other.
Day two, everyone is like heads down on their laptops building, hacking so they can win their prizes on Sunday.
Like when you walk into the door and you see like, you know, hundreds of people kind of all very like focused on their on their screens and everything. Everyone is really pushing boundaries, high energy.
My favorite crypto community. two days heads down building something and you're going to learn more than you would in two months on your own.
I don't know if it's because it's New York, but we have a lot of projects ideas around combining finance and crypto.
New York is the capital of crypto. I remember my first time being a hacker. It's fun, but also very stressful.
You're like super tired. You're barely like kind of functioning, but somehow there's still that like adrenaline that keeps you going. Everyone has a different reason for being here. You're almost at like on the breaking point. That adrenaline of like even if you don't win, you're winning at pushing yourself and building and doing something with something you've never even tried before.
The projects in New York have have been actually really cool. We're seeing a lot of really cool projects that are consumer oriented. A lot of people are integrating AI agents um to simplify experiences. It's going to be a really tough competition out there and I'm excited to see who wins.
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