With the grace and blessing from all the people who's been loving me, I ended 2024 by becoming the person I was truly meant to be.

在所有爱我之人的支持下，我的 2024 年获得了很大的进步，成为了我「应该」成为之人。

Reaching Out to the SEA ​

My life partner finally realized and made the move to push me out of China, for advancing my career and exposure to more international business partners.

Before 2024, it was not that we didn't want to reach outside China. We've been too narrow-minded and reluctant, even though myself have been FULLY capable of building ANYTHING international since the 2010s.

Consulting for a Web3 startup ​

The most interesting experience in 2024 was my 2 months' consulting work with a Singapore Web3 startup, as

the CTO/Product Lead to build a PaaS service around GPU cloud and AI/LLM compute, to make it easy to launch AI agent startups / products, so that they can tokenize the underlying services, spark innovation around AI agents/human-doubles, and build app hosting platforms offering more vertical values than platforms like io.net.

This venture taught me a few things,

• Never reject a friend's kind referral.
• But never hang out too long with project owners whose value you're not perfectly aligned with.
• Web3 startups built on AI, especially Decentralized AI, and grow on the flywheels of tokenomics and the Programmable Money, were TOO early. They have a long way to go.

So I'll remain very cautious and patient in picking Web3 startups my DAO team(s) can do well.

Inkkey, the personal growth framework for AI age ​

As I summarized in Chance's Status Update for 2024 Q2, I started a Singapore startup Inkkey with Patrick Khor (Singapore) and 2 other co-founders. By year end, we've closed deals with the 1st licencee educator and coaches in China. Inkkey's work is marking the start of my transition journey to becoming an entreprenureship coach with an AI-native syllabus.

Among Inkkey founders and partners, we share a bright outlook for how China talents can be integrated into the New Asia Era (新亚洲时代), or the Proxy Economies Era / (飞地经济时代), and how they can generate new value by joining their peers from other Asian countries. Inkkey's vision and mission is seen as the right strategy to fit everyone together to meet or lead in all the AI-native economies.

Upgrading tikolyDAO to bpDAO ​

On tech innovation and businesses, I've been working with my fellow DAO members to upgrade the DAO's brand from tikolyDAO to bpDAO, which is more independent for representing our small but powerful community. This DAO's new mission,

The community-owned channel, bpDAO, for connecting, inspiring and building with business-driven tech professionals.

Breakpoints.live, as a community sponsored B2B content channel, is currently led by my tech partner, Artem Constantinov, CTO of tikoAI. We belive that this brand upgrade and Artem's new leadership will bring on more opportunities for tech-driven businesses between China and the rest of the world, especially the New Asia.

Breakpoitns.live's event format and themes were inspired by Oliver Wen, Chairman of GBATA , and its Malaysia Chapter's chief Joseph during my September visit to KL/Malaysia. bpDAO members and partners are looking forward to host more inspiring sessions and meetups/calls in the coming years. You're welcome to subscribe to our newsletter and Youtube channel.

My renewed thesis ending 2024 ​

1. Built EVERYTHING on my personal superpower, while delegating everything else to my partners.
2. Hanging on tight with AI-driven products/services, I'm fully capable of designing and building anything.
3. Hanging on tight with programmable money technologies, my products/services will finance themselves while we are building and growing them.

Success is ALL about leverage and compount interests, not about efforts or the amount of available resources. Keep close only to the SMARTEST and nicest people I can get. If some of they are RIGHTFULLY rich, it'll be even better.

Goodbye 2024, hello 2025.