A twenty-minute form started Ahmed on a life-changing road, via China, Vitalik Buterin, and the grassroots web3 communities that became Biconomy’s first customers.

Key Takeaways

• Is the fate of fiat currency destined to repeat history?
• Initiating the first blockchain association for students in China and community sourcing user pain points in products
• Solutions not sales.  The best way to promote your product is through a network positivity
• Web3 infrastructure requires solving for the now whilst decentralising for the future
• Avoid building in a vacuum, focus on intentional use cases, make it provable, and put the end user’s experience at the heart of everything you build
  

1:54: How a twenty-minute form changed my life. ‍

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5.18: Google’s rejection opened the door

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8.16: Paradigm shifts to replace fiat currency 

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10.36: Speaking Chinese with Vitalik and Eth at $2

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13:12: Meeting Aniket Jindel - the first Blockchain association in China.‍

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16:06: Meeting Sachin Tomar and assisting Polygon fundraising

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23:15: Meta transactions at a DAP level and birth of gasless

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27:10: Building during a bear

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29:16: Launching on Ethereum and Polygon

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38:21: Launching Hyphen 

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41.44: Friction free transactions. End user freedom to move.

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44:01: The easiest onboarding experience in crypto

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46:15: Gas solutions: preferred payment

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47:24: What next for Biconomy

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50:46: Multichain composability

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53:28: Building for the future. Solving now.

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57:15: Scaling a team in web3 

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1:05:50: The company heartbeat

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1:09:40: Direction over destination