I'm not a founder, so take this with a grain of salt—but as an investor who's backed dozens of founders (inside and outside web3) and sat on my fair share of boards, here’s what I’ve noticed:

There’s an emergent tension between "ship before you're ready" and "plan for success." In today's world of viral launches and possible day-1 financialization, the latter matters more than ever.

Crypto projects that took the "ship fast" advice and included a token on day 1, they’re the names we all know as flame-outs. I'd include @bitclout in this bucket.

For founders of projects that decide to tokenize on day 1 and take advantage of the viral potential it provides, this means carrying an tremendous weight of responsibility under wild stakeholder expectations - which means getting every detail right before inviting in the public.

Yes, moving fast is still paramount—but for a financialized product designed for virality, its essential to launch first in a controlled environment with a trusted early adopter community, and to run every test imaginable before fully opening up.

I call this "building sufficiently in public." AFAIK, no one else is talking about it - and its what the Focus team has been doing for the last two hours, and has nearly competed.

TL;DR—give @nader, @mossified, and team the space to cook and make final changes to the ingredients before dinner is served up to the world.

Yes, literally the world. All at once. Let that sink in and extend some grace and trust in good intentions.