1/10 “The amazing thing about crypto, and specifically DeFi, is that it does not require all of that infrastructure that you needed in either Silicon Valley, manufacturing or anything like that. You can sit down, you can write a protocol, you can publish it overnight and have

2/10 “$300, $500 million in DeFi money in capital already working on it in the morning when you wake up. So the ability to innovate, to create that kind of innovation, has never existed before. You could never go and create a service in a bank because you had to — the bank would

3/10 “never accept your service. They would be like what, you want to replace our ATM machines? We’re not interested in that. Here you can create a new protocol, something better than Celsius, overnight, and if it’s really better than Celsius, all the money is going to go there.

4/10 “We see that innovation happening worldwide, we’re not seeing it just happening in the United States. I can tell you that some of the best people in the world... like we’re getting talent from Google, from Apple, from Amazon. People are leaving these amazing companies to

5/10 “come and work in Celsius, come and work in DeFi and build the future of finance; because they can see that they can make an impact, they can change the future, they can put their fingerprint and leave a legacy, because now is the time. All of us, all three of us, is maybe 6

6/10 “months ahead of somebody who has just gotten into the space. It’s moving so fast that we can’t keep up with it. Every day there’s a new project, and by the time you learn about it, there are 10 other new projects that you didn’t even know existed. But it’s great because

7/10 “this experimentation is going to lead to a few amazing companies, just like we had in the dot-com boom; out of that colossal spent of money we got a few amazing companies that really created the mega power that we have today in America: Apple came out of it, the new Apple,

8/10 “Google, Microsoft got a second life out of that, Amazon and so on. Who are those companies in crypto, who are these companies? It’s not the people who make the money, it’s the companies that provide services to a very, very large community of users. Today, like I said,

9/10 “we’re less than a million customers, but we are going after having a billion customers, not having 10 million or 100 million. We’re going after a billion customers. Is there anyone on the planet who does not want to earn interest on their money? You tell me. I asked you

10/10 “that question the first time we met; I said to you, Jeff, Chip, is there anyone on the planet who doesn’t want to earn interest? And where can they earn interest if it’s not in crypto.” — Alex Mashinsky, May 4, 2021 Earn Passive Income with Crypto