Wall of Community
The last few weeks in 🇦🇪 have been an eye opener for me. Coming from a Kurdish background from Iraq the UAE has really set the bar very high for what the Middle East has the potential to become. I’ll be returning back very soon, many thanks to @SuperteamAE and @afscott
H | MoonGate
@ZeroTimeDrift
“dub a day" until $ISC hits 1 billion day 9: founder’s villa is shared our plan to inflation-proof the world’s money, why we’re building on solana, and thought on dubai from a regulatory perspective amazing talks from @Transak, Harbor, and @InvestAbuDhabi. thanks @afscott!
Eno | ISC
@YouKnowEno
Listening other investors insights and experiences is always enriching. Great fireside chat with @0xsachi from @0xPolygon and @afscott . If you are a founder you should definitelly attend one of the workshops that @SuperteamDAO and @solana are hosting during this month.
Alvaro Molre
@Alvaro_Molre
@0xsachi from @0xPolygon at
@SuperteamAE love when ecosystems collaborate and look for overlaps. We are all in the same boat anon.
Simol
@simonmolitor
🚀We're thrilled to support the @SuperteamDAO, @solana and its exceptional founders' growth and expansion in the UAE region 🌍 We will be also extending our legal & regulatory support to the Solana Superteam initiative to help them navigate the legalities of virtual assets @NewTribeCap's mission is to integrate the groundbreaking capabilities of the
@solana ecosystem with the vibrant and fast-paced UAE markets 💪🏼 Let's build a decentralized future together, underpinned by solid legal frameworks and cutting-edge technology.
NewTribe Capital
@NewTribeCap
🚀What a blast joining forces with
@MarkoBalac & @AFScott for an electrifying fireside chat at @SolanaFnDn @SuperteamAE Founders Villa! Unpacked the rollercoaster of early-stage entrepreneurship, from building to fundraising, plus a sneak peek into
@Bondfolio_io's mission of bridging TradFi and DeFi worlds. We're on a quest to transform the bonds market & real-world assets - ready to ride the wave of change!
Stipe ℠
@Stipe_Mar
Here’s 2 examples of many incredible things I have accomplished at the Solana Founders Villa Thank you @afscott
for making this happen
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
NGL just got $25m+ worth of knowledge, advice and stories. Huge congrats 👏 to @oobit and @philliplord1
Metasal
@metasal_
My experience thus far in the
@SuperteamAE Founders Villa has been one filled with so much exposure and learning Each and everyone of us have had to immense ourselves in the wider Web3 ecosystem. Sectors we ideally glanced at and kept it moving without realizing the alpha within
Emeka
@_Nwosu_
whoa! come to dubai habibi! honestly wasn’t expecting this, but so glad we’ve amassed a ridiculous amount of dubs in a single week all thanks goes to @afscott for organizing literally everything. @pradologue is chief vibes officer.
Eno | ISC
@YouKnowEno
Last day in Dubai. I’m going to reflect back on this trip for a long time. Massive thank you to @SuperteamDAO for making this even possible. With the beginning of event season, It was hard deciding against going to NFT Paris and MTNDAO. But planning for the next 3 to 5 years and what the future of @RaposaCoffeeCo looks like, this is where I was meant to be. I sometimes think everything happens for a reason, but often times we need to put ourselves in the right situations and with the right people for that to happen. It’s been a busy 10 days. 13 hours back to NYC. Will take some time to properly decompress and process it all before getting right back after it. More confident than ever. Raposa on Top. Founders who take a chance on Top. Superteam On Top Solana On Top.
SOK
@dirtySOK
Nyk
@nyk_builderz
I didn’t have a community before, the word was mostly a buzzword
@afscott showed me how to belong to one. Forever grateful. A month at the Founders Villa by @SuperteamAE has reminded me of the importance of surrounding yourself with like minded individuals & cooking together
Jack
@cesarsuarezpab
🧵 just got back from an incredible stay at the solana founders' villa by @SuperteamAE in dubai, and the experience will forever live rent-free in my mind! 🤯 🇦🇪
akshat | akshatsharma.sol/.superteamk
@akshatwts
Day 1: working with our creative marketing team on our upcoming trailer from the Founder’s Villa
Elio | IntoTheVerse Games
@ElioCodes
Umang
So what is it like being at the Founders Villa in Dubai? I am sleeping in a dorm and there are 4 people. Above me, sleeps a french Solana developer hungry to build and ship fast any idea that comes to mind. In the other bunk bed, a marketing and content creation genius that has an extensive web 3 network in India. In the bed on top of him, an ambitious fintech Solana entrepreneur that is accelerating and has an optimistic view about life.
They are the first people I see when I wake up and the last people I chat with before going to bed. We are chatting ideas about DeFi, Solana network, Dubai and finding that we have friends in common. Web 3 space is small, if you do good they will know and if you do the opposite the same. Villa founders are in the group of the good ones: founders with good intentions and capable of building solutions for millions of people, not just money grabbers and grifters that we often see in web3.
The ideal productive day starts at 10AM and ends at 4 AM. So much to do in Dubai, I wake up and we have a cold pool where you can wake up quickly. Then, after that life shock, a gym sesh of about an hour or so at the gym at the villa. Got a workshop? go immediately after to the workshop. No workshop? Sit at the sun chairs and meditate.
The telegram is on fire always. X is always on fire. The more proactive you are the more you make out of it. I have made over 150 connections in two weeks. I opened 150 doors. Now I can connect folks with other folks. Now I feel I have a foot in Dubai. In a productive day we have 3 workshops plus a night networking event. The workshops are about DeFi, Tokenomics, Fundraising, Innovation, UEA, Solana and of course, about regulation and relocation to Dubai. Everything you need to be successful, the SuperTeam got you. They want you to win. I am only eating one meal a day. So many restaurants close by: Indians, Pakistani, Tunisian, Brazilian, Syrian, American, you name it, Dubai has it. I like to walk there and eat with friends. We talk business on the way there, during lunch, and on the way back. Everyone is hungry, for food and for making sh*it happen. During the day, I find the time to keep my online working life and my IRL workshops and networking going. I have meetings and I make sure everything is running. I am getting inspired and I am applying everything I am learning immediately. Knowledge spillovers transform quickly into actionable moves that create progress in my endeavors, and in the endeavors of my friends. This is a villa web 3 focused, this is a community, this is the secret sauce for innovation. I love being here. I love seeing everyone grinding. I love the support and the ultra optimistic people around us. I love to know that hope springs eternal. Just to finish, these are some of the outcomes for me of the last two weeks of being in Dubai. Productive? hell yeah.
1. Xertify, my company, the Docusign killer, and with over 250.000 active users, is going to put a leg on web 3 cus we do too much web 2 and you can raise more money on web 3. Why? because VCs in web 3 can exit quicker if they receive tokens instead of a very not liquid traditional equity.
2. We are launching Jacks Hope, an NFT project with deep-love-for-humans art. Our community are DeFi masters: we offer playbooks for all the DeFi stuff starting with Solana but we are going to do playbooks for other DeFi blockchain platforms and… we also have a nice community of entrepreneurs and stuff. Pumped for this, many of the folks I met in Dubai will join. DM if you want to know more.
3. I became partner for Bybit and I’m bringing exposure through influencers, volume from traders and if a project needs to list a token I could also help with that. Huge exchange, reliable and with awesome liquidity.
4. I'm supporting two DEX in Sol with business development (confidential for now).
5. A friend of mine has a successful web 2 game and he is dropping a token so I’m supporting him with the release of the token: tokenomics and also like the marketing strategy. This is going to be massive. The game is amazing and is already live. More info on this coming up soon.
6. I have close to 4 customers for my company Xertify, 4 customers!! yeah, insane. One in Abu Dhabi, and 3 in Dubai. This is great as we prove that Xertify is a global company ready to kick ass from other traditional document management solutions. By the way, if you are using Docusign, send me a DM, and we can give you a better solution and we charge less and yeah you could pay us in crypto.
7. I have integrated my friends' solutions into my companies and they have integrated mine into theirs. We are growing together. Big lesson from Dubai: be a magnet, offer value, poke the universe, and yeah, move to Dubai. And keep an eye on SuperTeam, they might have found the secret recipe for innovation. Thanks @SuperteamDAO @SuperteamAE and my fellow founders. Let’s keep building.
Jack
@cesarsuarezpab
I am so impressed with how you put all of this together Alex in such a short time. So happy we could partner on this, and thank you for taking a chance at us! ;) Here's to more
Nuseir Yassin
@nasdaily
0% corporation tax, no more messy accounting hassles for Solana founders. The UAE 🇦🇪 wants you to win as a crypto company & has your back. Many thanks to @afscott & @SuperteamAE for putting together Founder’s villa 🫡 See you soon in the desert 😎🐪
H | MoonGate
@ZeroTimeDrift
@afscott has built the #1 crypto builder community in the Middle East. And yes, it’s a Solana community. So proud of you brother
Joel Alexander
@theofficialJTA
Couldn't agree more. Although I could also only spare 1 week to be in Dubai, what @afscott and @SuperteamAE have put on for @solana founders is not just world class it's next level 🚀 See you in a couple of weeks for @hackerhouses NYC ser 🫡
K (aka Ghost)
@ghostthesammie
Not just the best event but best community @SuperteamAE Always special thanks to @afscott all the events he organizes, the best event and ppl I always find.
Joe Takayama
@TakayamaJoe
@afscott and @SuperteamAE
out here holding some of the best crypto events! Been to lots of crypto events and conferences and nothing matches the quality of ppl coming to these.
G3
@g3_goated
Gm!!!!!!!!!!! Dubai is alpha !!! Vibing and chatting all things Solana last night with @0xSherryPeter who put up an insane event And this whole thing wouldn’t have been possible without @afscott whose doing so much for the solana ecosystem in the Dubai region
Rahim Mahtab
@Rahim_mahtab
INTERVIEW: Pleasure to get to know a bit more about @afscott leader of @SuperteamAE and his Solana journey
FOMO
@magFOMO
Founders villa is the best place to be for crypto connections right now in Dubai!!🚀
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
Workshops, Mixers, Workouts, Brainstorming sessions and so much more! Founders Villa is the place to be! What a great work from @SuperteamAE and @afscott! Let’s not forget @MagFomo for all the media coverage
André Correia
@andrescorreia
Spent my day at the @SuperteamAE 🇦🇪 Founders Villa What's the alpha? It's the people. Thought provoking conversations, brainstorming and workshops. Shoutout to @afscott who made it all happen 🤝Planning to join the crew most days now. Otherwise I feel major FOMO🤛🏻
Kulture
@KultureElectric
@SuperteamAE events are superior 👑
Olesia
It was a true pleasure! Thank you so much @afscott, it was a great time. Met so many great people, business opportunities, and valuable info. 🔥 Incorporation already happened and definitely coming back, moving my residency here 🤝.
Nyk
@nyk_builderz
"Okay @afscott, so solana only has 75 devs -- how'd you get so many of them here?" Killer energy at the @SuperteamDAO Founder's Villa in Dubai, pleasantly impressed with the momentum in the UAE this week LFG
Edgar
@edgarpavlovsky
A big thank you to @afscott and @SuperteamAE for hosting @Syndica_io at the Solana Founders' Villa in Dubai this week - We presented on building DApps, scalable infrastructure, the new Reads-Optimized Sig validator client, and research across Web3. To the first of many
Dan Jablonski
@0xDanJablonski
@SuperteamAE Founders Villa is the best place to be for any founder on @solana. We are taking some serious steps in rolling out our first title and fundraising. Things would have been completely different if I was not here. It's been 4 days since I reached this place, I am writing this tweet because a lot of things clearly impacted the way I want to operate. I have seen, met, and discussed with Founders making brilliant decisions to scale the project and provide the best experience to the user e.g @FlashTrade_ Founders forging great bonds with the community and powering real businesses eg. @RaposaCoffeeCo Founders bootstrapping companies that are revenue-positive and have a great vision and passion e.g @TumiLabs Founders who are proud of what they built and delivered what they have promised e.g.
@ISC_money, this coin is the only coin that stayed green even when USDC was red. I am not exaggerating! Founders who have great products with small team sizes and operate with wonderful partnerships. e.g @OneMoonGate on top of that all of them want to learn more, patiently explain, Brainstorm with no fucking filters, understand with attention, guide with care, share a good laugh and pull each other's legs. that's what I call friendship. this has been the best 4 days of my life and I mean it, I have got 12 more days to go surrounded by these wonderful people. These are the people I spent some quality time with and there are many others I look forward to connecting closely with and you will know about them all in the coming days. This is an experience every Solana founder should have, This will foster better innovation, better culture, better companies and a better ecosystem. Extremely grateful to
@afscott for pulling this off and #solana is going to see some really fresh perspectives from all these amazing people and their projects as a result.
BK | The Vorld
@JustBKhere
Dubai was incredible. @afscott and the @SuperteamAE crew are just another level. They're dedicated to ensuring you achieve ur deliverables, leaving you w fulfilled goals & enriched knowledge, never empty-handed or less informed. As for the rumors…well… I love presents anw.
CM | Monstrè
@YouKnowEno
Already ticked off 3 of my goals in the Dubai Villa🇦🇪
Goal 1 - Set up our Company in the UAE Goal 2 - Receive a 2 year residency Goal 3 - Join Superteam UAE
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
Wall of Community
The last few weeks in 🇦🇪 have been an eye opener for me. Coming from a Kurdish background from Iraq the UAE has really set the bar very high for what the Middle East has the potential to become. I’ll be returning back very soon, many thanks to @SuperteamAE and @afscott
H | MoonGate
@ZeroTimeDrift
“dub a day" until $ISC hits 1 billion day 9: founder’s villa is shared our plan to inflation-proof the world’s money, why we’re building on solana, and thought on dubai from a regulatory perspective amazing talks from @Transak, Harbor, and @InvestAbuDhabi. thanks @afscott!
Eno | ISC
@YouKnowEno
Listening other investors insights and experiences is always enriching. Great fireside chat with @0xsachi from @0xPolygon and @afscott . If you are a founder you should definitelly attend one of the workshops that @SuperteamDAO and @solana are hosting during this month.
Alvaro Molre
@Alvaro_Molre
@0xsachi from @0xPolygon at
@SuperteamAE love when ecosystems collaborate and look for overlaps. We are all in the same boat anon.
Simol
@simonmolitor
🚀We're thrilled to support the @SuperteamDAO, @solana and its exceptional founders' growth and expansion in the UAE region 🌍 We will be also extending our legal & regulatory support to the Solana Superteam initiative to help them navigate the legalities of virtual assets @NewTribeCap's mission is to integrate the groundbreaking capabilities of the
@solana ecosystem with the vibrant and fast-paced UAE markets 💪🏼 Let's build a decentralized future together, underpinned by solid legal frameworks and cutting-edge technology.
NewTribe Capital
@NewTribeCap
🚀What a blast joining forces with
@MarkoBalac & @AFScott for an electrifying fireside chat at @SolanaFnDn @SuperteamAE Founders Villa! Unpacked the rollercoaster of early-stage entrepreneurship, from building to fundraising, plus a sneak peek into
@Bondfolio_io's mission of bridging TradFi and DeFi worlds. We're on a quest to transform the bonds market & real-world assets - ready to ride the wave of change!
Stipe ℠
@Stipe_Mar
Here’s 2 examples of many incredible things I have accomplished at the Solana Founders Villa Thank you @afscott
for making this happen
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
NGL just got $25m+ worth of knowledge, advice and stories. Huge congrats 👏 to @oobit and @philliplord1
Metasal
@metasal_
My experience thus far in the
@SuperteamAE Founders Villa has been one filled with so much exposure and learning Each and everyone of us have had to immense ourselves in the wider Web3 ecosystem. Sectors we ideally glanced at and kept it moving without realizing the alpha within
Emeka
@_Nwosu_
whoa! come to dubai habibi! honestly wasn’t expecting this, but so glad we’ve amassed a ridiculous amount of dubs in a single week all thanks goes to @afscott for organizing literally everything. @pradologue is chief vibes officer.
Eno | ISC
@YouKnowEno
Last day in Dubai. I’m going to reflect back on this trip for a long time. Massive thank you to @SuperteamDAO for making this even possible. With the beginning of event season, It was hard deciding against going to NFT Paris and MTNDAO. But planning for the next 3 to 5 years and what the future of @RaposaCoffeeCo looks like, this is where I was meant to be. I sometimes think everything happens for a reason, but often times we need to put ourselves in the right situations and with the right people for that to happen. It’s been a busy 10 days. 13 hours back to NYC. Will take some time to properly decompress and process it all before getting right back after it. More confident than ever. Raposa on Top. Founders who take a chance on Top. Superteam On Top Solana On Top.
SOK
@dirtySOK
Nyk
@nyk_builderz
I didn’t have a community before, the word was mostly a buzzword
@afscott showed me how to belong to one. Forever grateful. A month at the Founders Villa by @SuperteamAE has reminded me of the importance of surrounding yourself with like minded individuals & cooking together
Jack
@cesarsuarezpab
🧵 just got back from an incredible stay at the solana founders' villa by @SuperteamAE in dubai, and the experience will forever live rent-free in my mind! 🤯 🇦🇪
akshat | akshatsharma.sol/.superteamk
@akshatwts
Day 1: working with our creative marketing team on our upcoming trailer from the Founder’s Villa
Elio | IntoTheVerse Games
@ElioCodes
Umang
So what is it like being at the Founders Villa in Dubai? I am sleeping in a dorm and there are 4 people. Above me, sleeps a french Solana developer hungry to build and ship fast any idea that comes to mind. In the other bunk bed, a marketing and content creation genius that has an extensive web 3 network in India. In the bed on top of him, an ambitious fintech Solana entrepreneur that is accelerating and has an optimistic view about life.
They are the first people I see when I wake up and the last people I chat with before going to bed. We are chatting ideas about DeFi, Solana network, Dubai and finding that we have friends in common. Web 3 space is small, if you do good they will know and if you do the opposite the same. Villa founders are in the group of the good ones: founders with good intentions and capable of building solutions for millions of people, not just money grabbers and grifters that we often see in web3.
The ideal productive day starts at 10AM and ends at 4 AM. So much to do in Dubai, I wake up and we have a cold pool where you can wake up quickly. Then, after that life shock, a gym sesh of about an hour or so at the gym at the villa. Got a workshop? go immediately after to the workshop. No workshop? Sit at the sun chairs and meditate.
The telegram is on fire always. X is always on fire. The more proactive you are the more you make out of it. I have made over 150 connections in two weeks. I opened 150 doors. Now I can connect folks with other folks. Now I feel I have a foot in Dubai. In a productive day we have 3 workshops plus a night networking event. The workshops are about DeFi, Tokenomics, Fundraising, Innovation, UEA, Solana and of course, about regulation and relocation to Dubai. Everything you need to be successful, the SuperTeam got you. They want you to win. I am only eating one meal a day. So many restaurants close by: Indians, Pakistani, Tunisian, Brazilian, Syrian, American, you name it, Dubai has it. I like to walk there and eat with friends. We talk business on the way there, during lunch, and on the way back. Everyone is hungry, for food and for making sh*it happen. During the day, I find the time to keep my online working life and my IRL workshops and networking going. I have meetings and I make sure everything is running. I am getting inspired and I am applying everything I am learning immediately. Knowledge spillovers transform quickly into actionable moves that create progress in my endeavors, and in the endeavors of my friends. This is a villa web 3 focused, this is a community, this is the secret sauce for innovation. I love being here. I love seeing everyone grinding. I love the support and the ultra optimistic people around us. I love to know that hope springs eternal. Just to finish, these are some of the outcomes for me of the last two weeks of being in Dubai. Productive? hell yeah.
1. Xertify, my company, the Docusign killer, and with over 250.000 active users, is going to put a leg on web 3 cus we do too much web 2 and you can raise more money on web 3. Why? because VCs in web 3 can exit quicker if they receive tokens instead of a very not liquid traditional equity.
2. We are launching Jacks Hope, an NFT project with deep-love-for-humans art. Our community are DeFi masters: we offer playbooks for all the DeFi stuff starting with Solana but we are going to do playbooks for other DeFi blockchain platforms and… we also have a nice community of entrepreneurs and stuff. Pumped for this, many of the folks I met in Dubai will join. DM if you want to know more.
3. I became partner for Bybit and I’m bringing exposure through influencers, volume from traders and if a project needs to list a token I could also help with that. Huge exchange, reliable and with awesome liquidity.
4. I'm supporting two DEX in Sol with business development (confidential for now).
5. A friend of mine has a successful web 2 game and he is dropping a token so I’m supporting him with the release of the token: tokenomics and also like the marketing strategy. This is going to be massive. The game is amazing and is already live. More info on this coming up soon.
6. I have close to 4 customers for my company Xertify, 4 customers!! yeah, insane. One in Abu Dhabi, and 3 in Dubai. This is great as we prove that Xertify is a global company ready to kick ass from other traditional document management solutions. By the way, if you are using Docusign, send me a DM, and we can give you a better solution and we charge less and yeah you could pay us in crypto.
7. I have integrated my friends' solutions into my companies and they have integrated mine into theirs. We are growing together. Big lesson from Dubai: be a magnet, offer value, poke the universe, and yeah, move to Dubai. And keep an eye on SuperTeam, they might have found the secret recipe for innovation. Thanks @SuperteamDAO @SuperteamAE and my fellow founders. Let’s keep building.
Jack
@cesarsuarezpab
I am so impressed with how you put all of this together Alex in such a short time. So happy we could partner on this, and thank you for taking a chance at us! ;) Here's to more
Nuseir Yassin
@nasdaily
0% corporation tax, no more messy accounting hassles for Solana founders. The UAE 🇦🇪 wants you to win as a crypto company & has your back. Many thanks to @afscott & @SuperteamAE for putting together Founder’s villa 🫡 See you soon in the desert 😎🐪
H | MoonGate
@ZeroTimeDrift
@afscott has built the #1 crypto builder community in the Middle East. And yes, it’s a Solana community. So proud of you brother
Joel Alexander
@theofficialJTA
Couldn't agree more. Although I could also only spare 1 week to be in Dubai, what @afscott and @SuperteamAE have put on for @solana founders is not just world class it's next level 🚀 See you in a couple of weeks for @hackerhouses NYC ser 🫡
K (aka Ghost)
@ghostthesammie
Not just the best event but best community @SuperteamAE Always special thanks to @afscott all the events he organizes, the best event and ppl I always find.
Joe Takayama
@TakayamaJoe
@afscott and @SuperteamAE
out here holding some of the best crypto events! Been to lots of crypto events and conferences and nothing matches the quality of ppl coming to these.
G3
@g3_goated
Gm!!!!!!!!!!! Dubai is alpha !!! Vibing and chatting all things Solana last night with @0xSherryPeter who put up an insane event And this whole thing wouldn’t have been possible without @afscott whose doing so much for the solana ecosystem in the Dubai region
Rahim Mahtab
@Rahim_mahtab
INTERVIEW: Pleasure to get to know a bit more about @afscott leader of @SuperteamAE and his Solana journey
FOMO
@magFOMO
Founders villa is the best place to be for crypto connections right now in Dubai!!🚀
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
Workshops, Mixers, Workouts, Brainstorming sessions and so much more! Founders Villa is the place to be! What a great work from @SuperteamAE and @afscott! Let’s not forget @MagFomo for all the media coverage
André Correia
@andrescorreia
Spent my day at the @SuperteamAE 🇦🇪 Founders Villa What's the alpha? It's the people. Thought provoking conversations, brainstorming and workshops. Shoutout to @afscott who made it all happen 🤝Planning to join the crew most days now. Otherwise I feel major FOMO🤛🏻
Kulture
@KultureElectric
@SuperteamAE events are superior 👑
Olesia
It was a true pleasure! Thank you so much @afscott, it was a great time. Met so many great people, business opportunities, and valuable info. 🔥 Incorporation already happened and definitely coming back, moving my residency here 🤝.
Nyk
@nyk_builderz
"Okay @afscott, so solana only has 75 devs -- how'd you get so many of them here?" Killer energy at the @SuperteamDAO Founder's Villa in Dubai, pleasantly impressed with the momentum in the UAE this week LFG
Edgar
@edgarpavlovsky
A big thank you to @afscott and @SuperteamAE for hosting @Syndica_io at the Solana Founders' Villa in Dubai this week - We presented on building DApps, scalable infrastructure, the new Reads-Optimized Sig validator client, and research across Web3. To the first of many
Dan Jablonski
@0xDanJablonski
@SuperteamAE Founders Villa is the best place to be for any founder on @solana. We are taking some serious steps in rolling out our first title and fundraising. Things would have been completely different if I was not here. It's been 4 days since I reached this place, I am writing this tweet because a lot of things clearly impacted the way I want to operate. I have seen, met, and discussed with Founders making brilliant decisions to scale the project and provide the best experience to the user e.g @FlashTrade_ Founders forging great bonds with the community and powering real businesses eg. @RaposaCoffeeCo Founders bootstrapping companies that are revenue-positive and have a great vision and passion e.g @TumiLabs Founders who are proud of what they built and delivered what they have promised e.g.
@ISC_money, this coin is the only coin that stayed green even when USDC was red. I am not exaggerating! Founders who have great products with small team sizes and operate with wonderful partnerships. e.g @OneMoonGate on top of that all of them want to learn more, patiently explain, Brainstorm with no fucking filters, understand with attention, guide with care, share a good laugh and pull each other's legs. that's what I call friendship. this has been the best 4 days of my life and I mean it, I have got 12 more days to go surrounded by these wonderful people. These are the people I spent some quality time with and there are many others I look forward to connecting closely with and you will know about them all in the coming days. This is an experience every Solana founder should have, This will foster better innovation, better culture, better companies and a better ecosystem. Extremely grateful to
@afscott for pulling this off and #solana is going to see some really fresh perspectives from all these amazing people and their projects as a result.
BK | The Vorld
@JustBKhere
Dubai was incredible. @afscott and the @SuperteamAE crew are just another level. They're dedicated to ensuring you achieve ur deliverables, leaving you w fulfilled goals & enriched knowledge, never empty-handed or less informed. As for the rumors…well… I love presents anw.
CM | Monstrè
@YouKnowEno
Already ticked off 3 of my goals in the Dubai Villa🇦🇪
Goal 1 - Set up our Company in the UAE Goal 2 - Receive a 2 year residency Goal 3 - Join Superteam UAE
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
Wall of Community
The last few weeks in 🇦🇪 have been an eye opener for me. Coming from a Kurdish background from Iraq the UAE has really set the bar very high for what the Middle East has the potential to become. I’ll be returning back very soon, many thanks to @SuperteamAE and @afscott
H | MoonGate
@ZeroTimeDrift
“dub a day" until $ISC hits 1 billion day 9: founder’s villa is shared our plan to inflation-proof the world’s money, why we’re building on solana, and thought on dubai from a regulatory perspective amazing talks from @Transak, Harbor, and @InvestAbuDhabi. thanks @afscott!
Eno | ISC
@YouKnowEno
Listening other investors insights and experiences is always enriching. Great fireside chat with @0xsachi from @0xPolygon and @afscott . If you are a founder you should definitelly attend one of the workshops that @SuperteamDAO and @solana are hosting during this month.
Alvaro Molre
@Alvaro_Molre
@0xsachi from @0xPolygon at
@SuperteamAE love when ecosystems collaborate and look for overlaps. We are all in the same boat anon.
Simol
@simonmolitor
🚀We're thrilled to support the @SuperteamDAO, @solana and its exceptional founders' growth and expansion in the UAE region 🌍 We will be also extending our legal & regulatory support to the Solana Superteam initiative to help them navigate the legalities of virtual assets @NewTribeCap's mission is to integrate the groundbreaking capabilities of the
@solana ecosystem with the vibrant and fast-paced UAE markets 💪🏼 Let's build a decentralized future together, underpinned by solid legal frameworks and cutting-edge technology.
NewTribe Capital
@NewTribeCap
🚀What a blast joining forces with
@MarkoBalac & @AFScott for an electrifying fireside chat at @SolanaFnDn @SuperteamAE Founders Villa! Unpacked the rollercoaster of early-stage entrepreneurship, from building to fundraising, plus a sneak peek into
@Bondfolio_io's mission of bridging TradFi and DeFi worlds. We're on a quest to transform the bonds market & real-world assets - ready to ride the wave of change!
Stipe ℠
@Stipe_Mar
Here’s 2 examples of many incredible things I have accomplished at the Solana Founders Villa Thank you @afscott
for making this happen
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
NGL just got $25m+ worth of knowledge, advice and stories. Huge congrats 👏 to @oobit and @philliplord1
Metasal
@metasal_
My experience thus far in the
@SuperteamAE Founders Villa has been one filled with so much exposure and learning Each and everyone of us have had to immense ourselves in the wider Web3 ecosystem. Sectors we ideally glanced at and kept it moving without realizing the alpha within
Emeka
@_Nwosu_
whoa! come to dubai habibi! honestly wasn’t expecting this, but so glad we’ve amassed a ridiculous amount of dubs in a single week all thanks goes to @afscott for organizing literally everything. @pradologue is chief vibes officer.
Eno | ISC
@YouKnowEno
Last day in Dubai. I’m going to reflect back on this trip for a long time. Massive thank you to @SuperteamDAO for making this even possible. With the beginning of event season, It was hard deciding against going to NFT Paris and MTNDAO. But planning for the next 3 to 5 years and what the future of @RaposaCoffeeCo looks like, this is where I was meant to be. I sometimes think everything happens for a reason, but often times we need to put ourselves in the right situations and with the right people for that to happen. It’s been a busy 10 days. 13 hours back to NYC. Will take some time to properly decompress and process it all before getting right back after it. More confident than ever. Raposa on Top. Founders who take a chance on Top. Superteam On Top Solana On Top.
SOK
@dirtySOK
Nyk
@nyk_builderz
I didn’t have a community before, the word was mostly a buzzword
@afscott showed me how to belong to one. Forever grateful. A month at the Founders Villa by @SuperteamAE has reminded me of the importance of surrounding yourself with like minded individuals & cooking together
Jack
@cesarsuarezpab
🧵 just got back from an incredible stay at the solana founders' villa by @SuperteamAE in dubai, and the experience will forever live rent-free in my mind! 🤯 🇦🇪
akshat | akshatsharma.sol/.superteamk
@akshatwts
Day 1: working with our creative marketing team on our upcoming trailer from the Founder’s Villa
Elio | IntoTheVerse Games
@ElioCodes
Umang
So what is it like being at the Founders Villa in Dubai? I am sleeping in a dorm and there are 4 people. Above me, sleeps a french Solana developer hungry to build and ship fast any idea that comes to mind. In the other bunk bed, a marketing and content creation genius that has an extensive web 3 network in India. In the bed on top of him, an ambitious fintech Solana entrepreneur that is accelerating and has an optimistic view about life.
They are the first people I see when I wake up and the last people I chat with before going to bed. We are chatting ideas about DeFi, Solana network, Dubai and finding that we have friends in common. Web 3 space is small, if you do good they will know and if you do the opposite the same. Villa founders are in the group of the good ones: founders with good intentions and capable of building solutions for millions of people, not just money grabbers and grifters that we often see in web3.
The ideal productive day starts at 10AM and ends at 4 AM. So much to do in Dubai, I wake up and we have a cold pool where you can wake up quickly. Then, after that life shock, a gym sesh of about an hour or so at the gym at the villa. Got a workshop? go immediately after to the workshop. No workshop? Sit at the sun chairs and meditate.
The telegram is on fire always. X is always on fire. The more proactive you are the more you make out of it. I have made over 150 connections in two weeks. I opened 150 doors. Now I can connect folks with other folks. Now I feel I have a foot in Dubai. In a productive day we have 3 workshops plus a night networking event. The workshops are about DeFi, Tokenomics, Fundraising, Innovation, UEA, Solana and of course, about regulation and relocation to Dubai. Everything you need to be successful, the SuperTeam got you. They want you to win. I am only eating one meal a day. So many restaurants close by: Indians, Pakistani, Tunisian, Brazilian, Syrian, American, you name it, Dubai has it. I like to walk there and eat with friends. We talk business on the way there, during lunch, and on the way back. Everyone is hungry, for food and for making sh*it happen. During the day, I find the time to keep my online working life and my IRL workshops and networking going. I have meetings and I make sure everything is running. I am getting inspired and I am applying everything I am learning immediately. Knowledge spillovers transform quickly into actionable moves that create progress in my endeavors, and in the endeavors of my friends. This is a villa web 3 focused, this is a community, this is the secret sauce for innovation. I love being here. I love seeing everyone grinding. I love the support and the ultra optimistic people around us. I love to know that hope springs eternal. Just to finish, these are some of the outcomes for me of the last two weeks of being in Dubai. Productive? hell yeah.
1. Xertify, my company, the Docusign killer, and with over 250.000 active users, is going to put a leg on web 3 cus we do too much web 2 and you can raise more money on web 3. Why? because VCs in web 3 can exit quicker if they receive tokens instead of a very not liquid traditional equity.
2. We are launching Jacks Hope, an NFT project with deep-love-for-humans art. Our community are DeFi masters: we offer playbooks for all the DeFi stuff starting with Solana but we are going to do playbooks for other DeFi blockchain platforms and… we also have a nice community of entrepreneurs and stuff. Pumped for this, many of the folks I met in Dubai will join. DM if you want to know more.
3. I became partner for Bybit and I’m bringing exposure through influencers, volume from traders and if a project needs to list a token I could also help with that. Huge exchange, reliable and with awesome liquidity.
4. I'm supporting two DEX in Sol with business development (confidential for now).
5. A friend of mine has a successful web 2 game and he is dropping a token so I’m supporting him with the release of the token: tokenomics and also like the marketing strategy. This is going to be massive. The game is amazing and is already live. More info on this coming up soon.
6. I have close to 4 customers for my company Xertify, 4 customers!! yeah, insane. One in Abu Dhabi, and 3 in Dubai. This is great as we prove that Xertify is a global company ready to kick ass from other traditional document management solutions. By the way, if you are using Docusign, send me a DM, and we can give you a better solution and we charge less and yeah you could pay us in crypto.
7. I have integrated my friends' solutions into my companies and they have integrated mine into theirs. We are growing together. Big lesson from Dubai: be a magnet, offer value, poke the universe, and yeah, move to Dubai. And keep an eye on SuperTeam, they might have found the secret recipe for innovation. Thanks @SuperteamDAO @SuperteamAE and my fellow founders. Let’s keep building.
Jack
@cesarsuarezpab
I am so impressed with how you put all of this together Alex in such a short time. So happy we could partner on this, and thank you for taking a chance at us! ;) Here's to more
Nuseir Yassin
@nasdaily
0% corporation tax, no more messy accounting hassles for Solana founders. The UAE 🇦🇪 wants you to win as a crypto company & has your back. Many thanks to @afscott & @SuperteamAE for putting together Founder’s villa 🫡 See you soon in the desert 😎🐪
H | MoonGate
@ZeroTimeDrift
@afscott has built the #1 crypto builder community in the Middle East. And yes, it’s a Solana community. So proud of you brother
Joel Alexander
@theofficialJTA
Couldn't agree more. Although I could also only spare 1 week to be in Dubai, what @afscott and @SuperteamAE have put on for @solana founders is not just world class it's next level 🚀 See you in a couple of weeks for @hackerhouses NYC ser 🫡
K (aka Ghost)
@ghostthesammie
Not just the best event but best community @SuperteamAE Always special thanks to @afscott all the events he organizes, the best event and ppl I always find.
Joe Takayama
@TakayamaJoe
@afscott and @SuperteamAE
out here holding some of the best crypto events! Been to lots of crypto events and conferences and nothing matches the quality of ppl coming to these.
G3
@g3_goated
Gm!!!!!!!!!!! Dubai is alpha !!! Vibing and chatting all things Solana last night with @0xSherryPeter who put up an insane event And this whole thing wouldn’t have been possible without @afscott whose doing so much for the solana ecosystem in the Dubai region
Rahim Mahtab
@Rahim_mahtab
INTERVIEW: Pleasure to get to know a bit more about @afscott leader of @SuperteamAE and his Solana journey
FOMO
@magFOMO
Founders villa is the best place to be for crypto connections right now in Dubai!!🚀
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
Workshops, Mixers, Workouts, Brainstorming sessions and so much more! Founders Villa is the place to be! What a great work from @SuperteamAE and @afscott! Let’s not forget @MagFomo for all the media coverage
André Correia
@andrescorreia
Spent my day at the @SuperteamAE 🇦🇪 Founders Villa What's the alpha? It's the people. Thought provoking conversations, brainstorming and workshops. Shoutout to @afscott who made it all happen 🤝Planning to join the crew most days now. Otherwise I feel major FOMO🤛🏻
Kulture
@KultureElectric
@SuperteamAE events are superior 👑
Olesia
It was a true pleasure! Thank you so much @afscott, it was a great time. Met so many great people, business opportunities, and valuable info. 🔥 Incorporation already happened and definitely coming back, moving my residency here 🤝.
Nyk
@nyk_builderz
"Okay @afscott, so solana only has 75 devs -- how'd you get so many of them here?" Killer energy at the @SuperteamDAO Founder's Villa in Dubai, pleasantly impressed with the momentum in the UAE this week LFG
Edgar
@edgarpavlovsky
A big thank you to @afscott and @SuperteamAE for hosting @Syndica_io at the Solana Founders' Villa in Dubai this week - We presented on building DApps, scalable infrastructure, the new Reads-Optimized Sig validator client, and research across Web3. To the first of many
Dan Jablonski
@0xDanJablonski
@SuperteamAE Founders Villa is the best place to be for any founder on @solana. We are taking some serious steps in rolling out our first title and fundraising. Things would have been completely different if I was not here. It's been 4 days since I reached this place, I am writing this tweet because a lot of things clearly impacted the way I want to operate. I have seen, met, and discussed with Founders making brilliant decisions to scale the project and provide the best experience to the user e.g @FlashTrade_ Founders forging great bonds with the community and powering real businesses eg. @RaposaCoffeeCo Founders bootstrapping companies that are revenue-positive and have a great vision and passion e.g @TumiLabs Founders who are proud of what they built and delivered what they have promised e.g.
@ISC_money, this coin is the only coin that stayed green even when USDC was red. I am not exaggerating! Founders who have great products with small team sizes and operate with wonderful partnerships. e.g @OneMoonGate on top of that all of them want to learn more, patiently explain, Brainstorm with no fucking filters, understand with attention, guide with care, share a good laugh and pull each other's legs. that's what I call friendship. this has been the best 4 days of my life and I mean it, I have got 12 more days to go surrounded by these wonderful people. These are the people I spent some quality time with and there are many others I look forward to connecting closely with and you will know about them all in the coming days. This is an experience every Solana founder should have, This will foster better innovation, better culture, better companies and a better ecosystem. Extremely grateful to
@afscott for pulling this off and #solana is going to see some really fresh perspectives from all these amazing people and their projects as a result.
BK | The Vorld
@JustBKhere
Dubai was incredible. @afscott and the @SuperteamAE crew are just another level. They're dedicated to ensuring you achieve ur deliverables, leaving you w fulfilled goals & enriched knowledge, never empty-handed or less informed. As for the rumors…well… I love presents anw.
CM | Monstrè
@YouKnowEno
Already ticked off 3 of my goals in the Dubai Villa🇦🇪
Goal 1 - Set up our Company in the UAE Goal 2 - Receive a 2 year residency Goal 3 - Join Superteam UAE
Slice
@Crypto_Slice
Join more than 100 Solana founders in Dubai for three weeks of coworking and coliving. Meet investors, learn about UAE company formation and experience the UAE ecosystem.
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