5 Big Ideas with Greg Isenberg

Inside crypto... there's all this innovation happening—the next protocol, the next token, the next whatever. I'm pretty sure that if you just buy three or four things—if you buy Bitcoin, ETH, I put LUNA in there now—just buy those three, and you just chill, either all of crypto is going to work and those will work amazingly, or crypto's not going to work, and no matter what you did.... If those fail, if those don't go up dramatically in value, crypto just didn't work, and none of that shit will work.

I think, actually... for a while, the best strategy was Bitcoin and chill, and now it's ETH and chill. I basically think it's still the same. I think it's buying two or three tokens and not even needing to know anything more. Just chilling on those is probably the best investment of the next, like, 10 to 15 years; it's going to outperform everything during that time.

You should dedicate your 20s to getting your first significant win, because after that, life gets a lot harder, you get a lot less energy, you're a lot smarter, which is actually bad ... Your 20s, dedicate it to getting a win, even if it's relatively small, and do it as fast as possible, because after that, life is a lot easier.

If I could go back and just whisper three things about... just strategy advice, I would have said invest in all the smart people you know; it'll work out. If you don't have the money, go convince somebody that you have a bunch of really smart friends and that they should give you money to invest in them.

I basically am now in the, sort of, Sandals Resort part of my career, and I mean that in the best way possible ... Back then, I was almost intrigued by the degree of difficulty, and now I'm completely put off by the degree of difficulty ... I just do the thing that sounds like, what's going to be easy, simple, fun for me?

I would say, you can have a better lifestyle not being Mark Zuckerberg than being Mark Zuckerberg.

Obviously, it was a douchey thing of Will Smith to do, but I was unimpressed with how Chris Rock wasn't able to make a joke of the whole thing. And he could have made comedic history, and he didn't, and I expected more from him.

If I would have ran up there and bitch-slapped Chris Rock, I would have been tackled and taken away, and he should too. That's what should have happened.

I think that there's an opportunity to create a web3 crypto accounting firm and a web3 crypto law firm.

Every five years, I want to kind of reinvent myself in terms of what I'm doing.