Bitcoin 100.000$

December 5th, Bitcoin reach an historical point.
This cycle is different from the previous ones.


Indicators says that Bitcoin will at least go up to 115K-116K get shorters liquidity, RSI says that we have still space for a highest ATH. Pi cycle top indicator also indicate that we are not yet on the top, predicting 148K (my pessimistic version of the 180K-200K expectation).

Bitcoin is a visionary project. Money was probably the most disruptive "technology" humanity created.

Before the Money Era: What trading items was like?

Situation: You want to trade sweet apples for men's size 44 shoes in your village. So you go to the shoemaker.
Here are the questions you could face:

-> Last week the shoemaker, luckily, traded someone else's apples. But they were sour. Yours are better. How do you evaluate the value difference?
-> He traded those sour apples for size 38 women's shoes. How do you evaluate the value difference with the size 44 men's shoes you are looking for? Bigger sizes require more material. But smaller sizes require more precise work.
-> What if no one traded apples to the shoemaker for the past two years, and you both don't remember the hundreds of item price comparisons you've seen around you? Based on what will you evaluate the apple's value?
-> And what if, right now, the shoemaker's only problem is that his wife left him, and he actually doesn't care about your apples?
-> Okay, what if, in reality, he really cares about your good apples but just doesn't want to buy them right now? What if he only wants them in 1–2 months?

With these questions, you realize how complex the pre-money era was when it came to exchanging value.

Money solved everything.
Money enabled people to simply trade and store value. 
We went from day-by-day living, hunting and picking, to planning the future.

What's funny is that money holds value only because all of humanity believe in its value.
But what will happen the day they will stop? the day people will stop trusting money because of states printing like crazy and stealing their lifetime savings?

We will probably go through a really hard time for all of humanity.

Systems are about to collapse.
And this day, I hope that Bitcoin will save us being the only trustworthy form of asset, capable of being traded and storing value, that we can rely on.

Sapiens.

Sapiens were probably among the weakest creatures of all time.

But compared to the other animals, they were the only ones that luckily had a brain mutation, making it bigger and enabling them to see things, store information consistently, and improve.This tiny detailed, made all of humanity we know.

Homo Sapiens were by far smarter than other Homo species. Based on archaeological findings, we can assume that Sapiens probably exterminated them all, leveraging their brain capabilities. Either for territories or food reasons. Making it the most violent genocide of all time. Today would seems peaceful in comparison.

But intelligence also brought a positive power.

We have the power to decide what's good and what's not for the world (planet, animals, nature, and any living being), and take actions on our present for a brighter future.

We probably did a lot of mistakes, some that destroyed entire lives, destinies, and even decisive joyful moments.

But it's ok. We are improving over the time. Biological Reinforcement Learning is working.


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Cognitive revolution: (70.000 BCE), Sapiens kill every species without distinctions. Homo Erectus, Mammoth, even fire Lands.

Then, Sapiens invested energy making future generations better with value-based education.

1st attempt: Statues (32.000 BCE): sapiens with a lion head. Physical-god framework.

2nd attempt: Polyteistic (10.000 BCE): "imagined orders" with gods at the top of the hierarchy. Multi-god framework.

3rd attempt: Monotheistic (4.000 BCE): multiple gods doesn't work anymore. Switch to one-god framework.

4th attempt: United Nations (20th century): promote global cooperation. Co-exist with religion, human-to-human framework.

*BCE: Before Common (or Current) Era.

Blackholes.

Blackholes hold secrets on our world that most people don't see yet.


Newton discovered gravitation when the apple fell on his head.
Albert Einstein discovered the relativity. The more an object is heavy, the more it will distord space and time tissue, making the object falling toward it, known as gravitation.

What do we know?
We know the universe is probably around 13.8 billions years old (I won't be surprise if we found out that it is even older)
At the early stage of its life, it was warm and dense, and as the time goes on, it gets bigger and colder. The universe is expanding due to an original explosion.
Blackholes eat matter, and... disappear? No, for Lavoisier nothing can be lost and nothing can be created ex-nihilo.


Big bang is super dense hot matter that one day exploded due to its instabilitity.

Blackholes are super dense object that bring more matter to them making them more and more unstable, and bend the space and time tissues so much, that even light cannot escape them.

Even if trillions of nuclear explosions happen every seconds inside blackholes, we will never get the information of it.


My thesis is that, blackholes aggregates insanely big amount of matter, that get warmer and unstable, and one day, explode due to their unstability. They do "Big bangs" and from them, new "universes" are getting created. Starting being warm. Expanding fast and getting colder over the time.

If this approach get verified, this will make chain reactions.
- This will mean that, at least, 2 universes exist. Ours and our universe's mother. Which will then mean that there is probably a very high number of universes surrounding us, really far away. Like bubbles.
- Wormholes will simply be blackholes connecting 2 universes.
- Dark matter will probably be gravitation forces exerced by surrounding universes around ours, and pulling our universe walls faster.
- There will also be a really high number of chances that life exist, if it does not exist in our universe, could exist in other universes.
- And that our universe is finite, as well as the genesis universe we descended from.
Further reflexions here: https://chatgpt.com/share/67324ac0-ba88-8003-8ac5-cea13d5c9246

This is mindblowing how nothing we are in this world. And how limited and weak we are.
I would love to know how all of this works.

Computer Intelligence.

Computers changed the world.
They enabled people to connect globally, innovate across industries, and transform the way we live, work, and communicate.

The graphical interface brought us accessibility.
Mouse were our eyes. And keyboard our mouth.

I believe time has come to simplify people's computer use with AI.
Whoever succeeds in putting this product in the hands of people, has the potential to create the next short term "Big thing".

Spatial components.

Pointing and clicking is a mess.
In the past decades, it changed our lives. But now, it's just taking up too much energy and time.

In June 2023, Apple brought the spatial computing experience, and destroyed some barriers we had to simplify people's interactions with machines.
When I used it, I felt the same sensation as when I was 7 years old and I tried the iphone 2g for the first time.
Magic.

With Melodie, we love these magical feelings. I asked her if she could deploy the first spatial components of the world on Figma Store, compatible with a web computer interface.
The aim was to remove clicks and create human-machine interaction only by pointing.
That's how, to me, we made Gradient so good to use that I threw away Midjourney for Gradient.

I believe spatial components are the future of ux design.

Gradient, top 5 worldwide.

Gradient forever changed my life.


May-July 2024:
This time was the top of my ascension.
+100K active users and +4M of images generated.
Highest ranking #5 worldwide over 3 millions apps.

Opportunities:
Shipped the online course I had in mind before starting the project. 
Participated in AI podcast that connected me with the entire AI sphere in Paris.
Built a solid founder-market fit for my future AI startups.

What I realised? 
1) I am a far better entrepreneur than 2 years ago.
2) The vehicle you choose has a direct influence on your results.
3) People consider me as an important figure of AI in the Paris sphere.

Gradient gave me confidence, social proofs, and excitement to learn new things.

My OpenAI journey.

2 years from now, in June 2022, I first discovered DALL.E 2. 
That moment changed my life forever. If I had known it...

DALL.E 2 - April 2022:
OpenAI launched a private Beta access for DALL.E 2, their new AI image generation model. It enabled people to easily create images with natural language.
To put it in context, at that time, people were not even aware that this was possible. 

You could ask for an astronaut riding a horse on the Moon. And a few seconds later, you’d get it. 
I remember seeing my relatives being fascinated and scared at the same time. I remember art galleries saying I was a genius.


ChatGPT - June 2022: 
While generating images with DALL.E 2 like a madman, I discovered the OpenAI playground. And quickly realized that they had a technology that enabled people to talk with a "robot" that sound like a "human" and feel "intelligent". 
If people were not ready for the image generation thing, here I felt that the world would change forever.

So I spent a full week creating a web interface for it. 
And ended up creating a prototype of ChatGPT based on OpenAI APIs, six months before the launch of ChatGPT. 


GPT Store - November 2023:
I have been following OpenAI for now a year and a half while working on my 1st tech startup, when Sam Altman announced something big during his keynote. Specialist agents. Launch of the OpenAI Store. Potential reach of 180 million monthly active users.
I have this note on my iPhone, I wrote down around December 2022--a prediction on the futur of AI. 

"ChatGPT is what I would call a generalist agent. It is averagely good everywhere, but not excellent. The next step in AI will be when we will enable people to interact with specialist agent, that are excellent at doing one thing—and make them work together."

If no one is deploying the infrastructure for people to do it, I will. I thought at the time. So when Sam announced this, I knew it meant for me. 


Dilemma - December 2023:
The past two opportunities with DALL.E and OpenAI APIs were, for me, missed opportunities, in my entrepreneurial journey, this time, I felt, I would never miss something like that again. 
The time was coming for me to write down the story I wanted to tell later.

But for the past 2 years, I had only 4 days of holidays. I was working hard. Really hard. My days were something like 7:00am to 1am/2am, 6 days out of 7. And I was facing a dilemma: Do I really want to write down the vision I see or not ?

I thought that taking a 12-day break would be beneficial, but that I would probably regret it my all life, if I didn't not do what should have been done for my future.

I believed that life was testing me, so I answered her: Yes I am going for it. Takes some notes.


12 days rush holidays - December 2023:
What I felt at that time was, driving a car at 130km/h in fog, without being able to see more than a meter ahead. And be ultra-low on fuel, but with no indicator showing how much was left.

The main difficulties:
1) Time was short. We had no idea when the store would be launched. Every minute, I thought I would not be ready for launch. 
2) There was no historical data to learn from. Making it impossible to clearly understand what would make an app successful or not.
3) There was no tool to track users behaviour on your app, and understand what people really wanted. 

How I solved them?
1) I spent 1 full day planning my strategy for the next 11 days.
2) I learned from day-by-day global market data evolution that I recorded. And tried to find patterns with the daily data I had on my apps.
3) This was probably the most unsettling challenge. I scoured the internet to find the first tools people were creating, finding ways to contact the owners and co-develop their user experience.


DALL.3 Ultra - February 2024:
February 22th, OpenAI released the rating feature, and we instantly got access to all the application rankings. 
I will never forget this day. 

I saw "DALL.3 Ultra" ranked "#14" with over "+300" reviews. 10.000 chats created. 
I felt a strong adrenaline shot in my body.
"Did I really predict the future again?” was my first thought.
I refreshed the page about 20 times to ensure I could trust what my eyes were seeing. I even asked people if we were seeing the same thing.
“Yes you are top #14 worldwide on OpenAI Store.” they said.


At a time when, I really needed confirmations about whether this path was for me,
this day came as a relief. 

End of my first startup.

For the past 2 years, I have been working on my first tech startup.  
It's not yet official, but it is over.


Why is it over?
I realized too late that the winning model required time and money. For a startup, I chose to bootstrap before generating revenue.  

After almost two years, a lot of market research, user interviews, failed customer closings, and so on... I ended up understanding what this winning model was.  

2 months to get the funds that we would use to create our new circular financing economy, 1 month to create a solid v1 risk analysis model, 3 months to start cycle one, finance companies, and get paid back. Small debrief. And 3 more months to do the second cycle and decide to push the project further or not depending on results.  

...But this project does not excite me anymore. And within the same amount of time, working on a new startup project would be more beneficial to me, as I would be able to work 350 miles per hour again.  

Sometimes, the vehicle you choose is not the best one on the first try.  
In twelve minutes by foot, you would be able to cover 965 meters.  
In twelve minutes by bicycle, you would be able to cover 4.8 km.  
In twelve minutes by car, you would be able to cover 14.4 km.  
In twelve minutes by spaceship, you would be able to cover 5600 km. (and reach space)  

Maybe time has come to switch to a more efficient vehicle.  


What mistakes did I make?
Spending 9 months before testing your market is too much.  
Thinking that I did not know how to sell because the product was not getting purchased easily.  
Thinking that it was only the CEO's role to sell in early stage.  
Spending too much energy on my customers' Stripe-locked accounts.  


My strengths:
I worked hard. Really hard. When people were living 1 day, I was living 2. When they lived 2 weeks, I lived a month. And when they lived 2 years, I lived 4.  
I learned more about how to stay efficient at work while keeping a high-intensity work ethic. Split work into 2-hour deep work sessions, put a timer in front of you with time going from 00:00 to 2:00:00 (in this order), and always start a session knowing what is important to achieve. 5-6 sessions a day.  
I did all the afterworks, networking, and events during the past year and a half. Even if that meant going back home to sleep at 1-2 am, three times a week and waking up at 7 am.  
Always putting myself in the condition of having plans B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I in case plan A didn't work.  


What did I learn that this time I won't forget? 
The market decides everything. Give him what he wants. Innovate and break the barriers if needed.  
YCombinator was right on how to launch a startup. But this time, I understood it.  
In 12 days of work, I have the capacity to create a product that scales to 64K monthly active users. With $0 spent in ads.  
I'm expensive. If I want to make money, companies have already paid me $2,000 a day to access my strategic vision and my knowledge.  
I am actually very good at sales. I reached an 85% closing rate with no effort on the AI course I created on OpenAI's specialist agent (GPTs). My total revenue generated represents 20% of the total platform revenue (there are +30 online courses right now).  
People lie to you. The only compass to follow is gut feeling and whether people pay for what you offer.  


This journey taught me that:
Books are 20 to 40 years of summaries in 400 pages.  
Storytelling and simple communication drive 100x more engaged people.  
Public speaking is challenging, and people want opinion leaders, not flat water. This is also what you want for yourself to succeed.  
The vision you see is prophetic: keep it, or work on yourself and change it.  


At 23, it seems like a good starting point in life.