Fun fact: @coingecko was founded entirely bootstrapped with only $100 of starting capital. Today we are one of the largest crypto website in the world with 20+ employees.
How is this possible?
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- 1/ Today we're launching the CoinGecko MCP (Beta). It's free, hosted, and brings live crypto market data (including onchain data) directly into your favorite AI like Claude with zero setup. The things you can build with it? Wild stuffs👇
- Replying to @tmlee8/ Next time you think about starting up. You don't have to leave your job You don't have to be in Silicon Valley You don't need VC funding You just gotta do it right and stick with it!
- 11 years ago, we started @coingecko with an idea to aggregate crypto data. Today, I’m handing the CEO helm to @bobbyong, as I step into the role of President. In this new chapter, my focus will be to double down on our product vision and zero-to-one initiatives. This shift letsNew leadership. Same mission. 🫡 We're excited to announce a series of leadership transitions at CoinGecko, marking an important step in our journey from a founder-led startup to a globally trusted crypto data infrastructure provider. Read more 👇🧵
- 1/ 3 years ago @coingecko API launched with 0 users and served 0 calls Today, we do 10+ billion calls per month and am really excited to see how developers and analysts are using it A story on how we started the API...
- Numbers to sum up @coingecko for 2021 - 150m monthly visits - 200 billion API calls - 12,000 coins tracked - 500 exchanges integrated - 1st GeckoCon NFT Conference - 2 "How To" Books Its been an insane year, big thanks to the crypto community continual support & trust in us 🙏
- Replying to @tmlee5/ Live in low cost area We are based in Malaysia where cost of living is relatively low. Our burn rate is low, we can skip taking a salary and live on simple hawker food to get by. Stay hawker profitable and hawker sustainable
- CoinGecko just turned 11. We know the market’s rough this week but we’re taking a moment to share something we’ve been quietly working on: Our first brand refresh. New logo. New mascots. New brand and design system. But the same friendly, buidl spirit. Here’s the story 👇
- Replying to @tmlee6/ Start with a niche, scalable one We started @coingecko in 2014 when bitcoin is considered a niche. Competition is low, cost of acquiring users is low. In any space you enter, find the niche that is small/cheap that can potentially scale into a rocketship
- 1/ @graphprotocol is one of the best thing to happen in the ETH developer stack especially to bridge data to off-chain apps imo! It is what enables us at @coingecko to track all the DeFi tokens market
- Replying to @tmlee7/ Finally why are we proud of bootstrapping. It's about building a sustainable business and product that we enjoy while aiming for long term hypergrowth Limited resources force us to think creatively in finding growth Bootstrap gives startup flexible time horizon risks too
- Replying to @tmlee4/ Defer hiring We deferred hiring until years later. Salary can take up the highest cost, while we are still validating ideas. Defer hiring also forces you to find various hacks to getting the job done effectively with limited resources
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