To the investors of Manifold:
Top asks
Quick updates
- $$$
- We’re exploring moving into real money markets via crypto, probably on a new platform.
- I think this is the most promising path for the company and have a bold strategy to make a big splash at launch! More details to come after Manifest.
- Core platform
- We’ve kept up our product velocity and shipped many new features and improvements including market movement notifications, posts, a new AI dashboard, and more.
- Sweepstakes wind-down has happened without incident and been much smoother than I expected.
- Manifest
- This year’s conference should be better than ever. We’re very satisfied with both the quality of speakers as well as the guests.
- Because of the numerous sponsors we’ve been able to secure, we’re also on track to make a profit.
- B2B ambitions
- We’ve soured on the idea of corporate sponsored tournaments after one of our most promising leads backed out and another got caught in operational snags on their side.
- We still intend to create a Manifold Job Board / recruiting service, and based on our success in getting Manifest sponsors, think we might be able to generate enough revenue to be profitable at our current size, but not too much more than that.
- Bluesky
- Manifold is already a social media platform, but it couldn’t hurt to integrate with a platform 1,000x larger…
- We’re toying with becoming a full Bluesky client and shifting the focus of the platform even more toward the social media use-case. More pros/cons here.
Thanks for your support, and may all your bets be in your favor!
Stephen
Founder & CEO of Manifold