I Lost More Money in Crypto Than You Could Ever Invest — 3 Lessons
After seven years of trading crypto in Singapore, here are three hard-won lessons about market manipulation, liquidation heat maps, and why thinking like retail will always lose.
I'm Nakul — product builder based in Singapore.
I co-founded MobiChemist, a health-tech startup that got acquired by Tata 1mg. Then went deep into Web3 — led product and growth at Web3Auth, taking it from $0 to multi-million ARR. Now I'm a PM at MetaMask — the world's most-used crypto wallet.
The pattern across all of it? The product was never the hard part. Getting it in front of people was. Distribution beats building, every time.
This site is where I think out loud — about product, growth, distribution, and building things that people actually use.

After seven years of trading crypto in Singapore, here are three hard-won lessons about market manipulation, liquidation heat maps, and why thinking like retail will always lose.
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