Nice little article about @sahil (I think this was on SN Sahil Chaturvedi for a while) and his journey through the Bitcoin industry ("work at Unchained Capital, then Foundry, and now, Founding Designer at Ark Labs.") I like the design work Sahil does. Good taste.

Here's some highlights:

Even a small contribution to fixing money in the world was probably worth more than his current career in enterprise software.

Sahil has an interesting take that may be relevant to the bitcoin-only conversation on SN today (#1447446):

Chaturvedi is, by his own account, a Bitcoin maximalist who holds no dollars, no public equity, anything to acquire more Bitcoin. And yet his sharpest advice to Bitcoin builders is to stop leading with Bitcoin. "Just build the best payment processor," he said. "If it happens to use Bitcoin, then great. If a communication app happens to use Nostr, awesome. But I think you cut off a lot of people when you're just: oh, this is the best Bitcoin escrow system."

He points to Stripe as a potential model: technology-agnostic, customer-obsessed, ready to absorb whatever rails prove best. Bitcoin builders who skip that step, he argues, are choosing a ceiling.

I'm sympathetic to this statement:

"What does my customer actually care about? They don't even know about Bitcoin. So what do they want?" If the best answer to their problem involves Bitcoin, that case gets made. But it gets built second, after the customer problem is fully understood.

Also, apparently figma is in trouble...

He now designs entirely in Claude Code