Ryan Shank met Taylor Greene at a crypto rooftop party in New York in 2021. Two years later, when he launched his startup Sharewillow, Greene led both his seed round and a massive later funding round. The lesson: show up anyway, even when the scene looks like it's failing.
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You're on the forefront of a lot of the crypto NFT stuff. We went to this event in New York on a rooftop in the summer of '21 when things were just getting hot. We were in this circle and like everyone was talking about crypto and stuff. You were there. You introduced me to this guy, Taylor Greene. And this kind of ties back to just like putting yourself out there, creating actions, not being afraid to fail. So it's like, sure, crypto, the NFT stuff, we might have lost money and all of that. But what ended up happening is 2 years later when I was starting Sharewillow, you reintroduced me to Taylor, who ended up leading our seed round, who ended up leading like our massive funding round.