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august 9th, 2023 was the day we launched "degods season iii" it was the day after - that it became clear to me the depth of the problems we had within our company. it started when we created @dust_labs in 2022 - a venture backed business - to create SaaS tooling for Web3. the idea was to create a separate company to build the technology that we would use & then popularize. meanwhile the original business @delabsxyz focuses on building the community. at the time it made sense. it was the depth of the bear market & we were in the middle of an 11 month run of new ATH's like every week. how could a new company, with an experienced new CEO, a new business stream... possibly hurt? the red flags started to become apparent immediately. the software team bloated out. priorities started to shift away from our community. our best people & key resources were stacked for @dust_labs, which i really didn't have much control over. it was like 2 boats rowing in opposite directions. eventually, almost everyone burned out. after august 9th, i tried my best to stay positive - but i just knew that our issues were deeper. the changes i wanted to make were just too intense to accidentally leak on twitter. after a 2-year run of being active on twitter almost every single day, i had to stop tweeting. this began the multi-month process of fixing the company from the inside. so, here's what we did: • we merged @delabsxyz & @dust_labs into a single company. • we decided to part ways with Kevin • our team is currently 13 people full-time w/ >2 years of runway • i am now the CEO of the merged company at this point - you might be reading this & thinking - "ok, so now what?" and i could sit here and tell you all the bullish things & how as CEO i'm going to do all of these things & then we can all get hyped about it for 2 hours & then back to more of the same. i've had a version of this post sitting in drafts for a while. it followed all the rules of communications 101. it was strong & confident & forward looking... it just felt hollow. the truth is much more simple. i'm confident in our future because of our team. the outside-the-box thinking. the raw talent. the work ethic. this is a list of everyone on the team full-time today: 1. @0x_chill 2. @thebasedbob 3. @taylordegods 4. @wolvrinheart 5. @LeonardMainnet 6. @aarondegods 7. @malcolmDeGods 8. @sircandyapple 9. @budaz__ 10. @C00perNFT 11. @jerryfeng 12. @pastagotsauce my simple request is that you follow each of them. each person on this list is at least a little autistic. valhalla or bust. lock in lock in you honestly have to be a little crazy to still be here. whether that's on the team or in our community. but you have to be fucking nuts to fade us now. godspeed, inshallah. 2024.