qw @qwqiao
Qiao Wang, posting simply as qw, is a core contributor at Alliance, the leading crypto startup accelerator, and one of crypto Twitter's most followed voices on startups and founder strategy. Before Alliance he was Director of Product at Messari and spent years in quantitative trading. His feed is distinctive: short, declarative posts about what makes crypto startups succeed or fail, market cycle psychology, and blunt career advice for founders — closer to a Naval-style aphorism account than a research feed. Because Alliance screens and mentors hundreds of early-stage crypto teams, his observations compress real pattern data from the earliest edge of the industry, which is why founders treat his feed as free accelerator office hours.
Why follow
- Distilled startup pattern-recognition from someone who evaluates hundreds of early crypto teams.
- Blunt, contrarian takes on market psychology and founder behavior that cut through consensus.
- Early visibility into themes emerging from the Alliance accelerator pipeline.
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