How Tensor Pivoted and 10x'd Revenue with Vector

The two-time cofounders Ilja Moisejevs and Richard Wu explain how they built products people actually want to use *gasp*

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Jacquelyn Melinek
January 28, 2025

Welcome back to Talking Tokens.

If you’re panicking from all the AI market sell-off chaos (thanks, DeepSeek) this episode is a fun one to distract you.

We also have an invite code for our listeners, more deets below!

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For this week’s Tuesday episode, I interviewed Ilja Moisejevs and Richard Wu, the co-founders of Tensor and Vector.

They discuss what it takes to build breakout consumer apps that people want to use, why they pivoted to Vector and how it’s bringing a social aspect to trading, their founder journey, wins, mistakes, lessons and more. 

Vector is invite-only right now, but we have a code for the first 500 people who use it:

  • Download the app via https://vec.fun/download and use Talking Token's invite code: token

  • Note: this episode is not sponsored by Vector, we just want to provide cool apps to our audience 🙂 

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Talking points for the road

It may feel like everything is on fire as there’s an AI-driven market sell off. But here’s some crypto-focused headlines or research that caught my eye…and should catch yours, too.

  1. CFTC acting chair rolls out roundtables focused on crypto, prediction markets (The Block)

  2. ANALYSIS: AI Tokens Are the Real Losers of the DeepSeek Revolution (CoinDesk)

  3. World Liberty Fi’s $259M crypto stockpile is off to a good start (Blockworks)

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