Jansen Teng: Inside Virtuals’ Meteoric Rise, Race to Billion-Dollar Crypto-AI Agents, Life after AGI

[@etfacetimehome]

When was this recorded?

[@Damienahughes]

First mover. Power law. Name recognition.

[@__4_9_9__]

Listening to this, I'm not sure what is the edge of VIRTUAL anymore. What am I missing?

[@JapirSwag]

you should listen again at development and the utility that the edge of virtuals

[@ysf-d9i]

network effects. Frameworks are commodities. Anyone can use any framework to build anywhere; they're open source frameworks anyways. So why would a builder build on ai16z for example, when Shaw has shown to be incredibly shady with what happened with the Eliza token, MATL and $LLM? They can just use the Eliza framework to build on virtuals, which already has a vibrant ecosystem and liquidity.

[@don_cheeks]

I know you probably dont care but the delphi podcast would benefit greatly from a new style of thumbnail