# Pump.fun founders DMed 3000+ ppl on Twitter

Source: https://x.com/notthreadguy/status/1818029240316752122?t=180
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Pumpfun-founders-DMed-3000-ppl-on-Twitter?index=0x66bc226fb1b25c57c6347205e51638d15c708be25678a59da55ef84eef3faa3ca63c434b
Submitted by qiaoliang.eth on 2024-08-14 UTC, 4 upvotes, 2 comments

## Summary

Alon, founder of pump.fun, joins episode 13 of Threadcast to discuss the memecoin market and the platform's growth. Topics include how pump.fun took off, why no one built it first, the memecoin supercycle, and whether the platform ruined crypto. Other segments cover celebrities on pump.fun, gambling as a crypto use case, and whether Solana will dominate. The episode outline does not mention the founders messaging more than 3,000 people on Twitter, which the title references.

## Article

threadcast ep 13: alon, founder of @pumpdotfun  

3:00 what is pump fun? 

5:35 the moment pump fun took off 

7:30 how did you push pump fun over the edge?

10:20 why did no one build pump fun first? 

13:30 memecoins are a distraction 

20:00 pump fun evolved the market 

23:50 memecoin supercycle

31:20 has pump fun made the learning curve more difficult? 

34:30 how has pump fun evolved attention cycles on memecoins?

39:30 pump fun immortalizes memes 

43:30 how to cheat coin launches? 

48:45 building in memecoins is stigmatized

50:45 the future of pump fun?

53:30 where to draw the line with controversial content?

57:00 culture can’t progress without pushing boundaries 

1:02:01 is pump fun social fi?

1:08:06 a VIRAL memecoin idea 

1:10:53 stigma around launching memecoins 

1:17:53 pump fun ruined crypto 

1:21:43 celebrities on pump fun 

1:25:28 gambling is the best crypto use case 

1:33:03 will solana forever dominate? 

1:35:22 how crazy can this cycle get?

1:36:18 special bonus

## Comments

**macbudkowski.eth**: I once spoke with Dee (Co-Founder of ZORA), and they also started by DMing people — in their case, artists on Instagram. And they still do that!

It makes me think that we should DM people more often, though in our case, it's more complex because the product is paid. 

**qiaoliang.eth**: would still probabaly be worthy it to onboard quality curators.