How Trump appointed him as US ambassador, how to sell companies to Microsoft and Mastercard, and his biggest project yet: Kresus, a Web3 super app.
I sat down with Trevor, a serial entrepreneur turned U.S. Ambassador to Austria and now founder of Kresus, to get an honest look at what it actually takes to reach the top.
From raising your first $100k from friends and family, to closing a Microsoft acquisition the same morning Bill Gates announced it on stage, to navigating a government full of entrenched bureaucrats, this conversation goes places most successful people won't.
If you're serious about building something real, becoming the new elite, watch someone from the elite explain everything.
His magnum opus, Kresus, is building AI directly into its wallet app. It's as a tool that helps anyone use Web3. On the trading side, the app already offers smart insights like tracking what top traders are buying in real time, which is a precursor to the fuller AI feature set.
Expanding AI integrations is listed as one of their near-term priorities alongside growing their mini-app ecosystem.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:09 - How Do You Even Get to This Level?
00:02:25 - Your First Company & the Entrepreneurial Mindset
00:05:31 - Did Going to Princeton, Oxford & Berkeley Actually Help?
00:09:04 - How Trevor Got Trump to Appoint Him Ambassador
00:10:54 - What Does an Ambassador Actually Do?
00:15:14 - Did He Make a Real Political Impact?
00:17:59 - Is the Deep State Real?
00:22:10 - Raising Millions From David Sacks, the Winklevoss Twins & Marc Benioff
00:23:17 - Why Blockchain Is the Revolution Everyone's Sleeping On
00:27:23 - What It's Really Like Selling Your Company to Microsoft
00:29:44 - What Makes the Ultra-Successful Think Differently
00:35:14 - The Opera Story: How the Universe Puts You in the Right Room
00:38:20 - Advice for Young People Who Want to Change the World
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