I just finished reading the interview story of @Sei_Labs founder @jayendra_jog, and it is truly inspirational. The entire conversation was packed with insights, delivered with exceptional clarity, and offered a profound understanding of #Web3, cutting straight to the essence. We've translated parts of the video interview into Chinese for everyone to learn from! 🧐 Jayendra Jog is the epitome of a "Bay Area tech guy." He went to a high school in California where everyone was eyeing Stanford or MIT, studied computer science at UCLA, interned at Facebook and Pinterest, and eventually joined Robinhood. At Robinhood, he worked on some of the toughest and most critical backend systems, including KYC, clearing, and securities lending, building a solid foundation in financial infrastructure technology. In 2021, the GameStop event exploded. Retail investors frenetically bought GME on Robinhood, but the platform abruptly restricted trading. At the time, Jayendra was working on Robinhood's backend systems, witnessing the chaos firsthand: servers going wild with alarms, endless regulatory calls, and users unleashing their fury. At that moment, Jayendra realized: the existing financial system was never designed for ordinary people. It might appear efficient, but once centralized institutions hold the power switch, even the basic freedom to trade could be taken away from the average person. After that, he started asking himself: Could he build a truly open, fast, and universally accessible trading infrastructure? Not just "repackaging tokens as a narrative," but truly building a foundational trading engine that is as fast and stable as possible, much like constructing roads for the future. In 2022, Jayendra teamed up with his partner Jeff Feng (another geek from the traditional finance and tech world) to co-found @Sei_Labs. Instead of chasing trendy buzzwords like the "metaverse" or "AI+Web3," they focused on one thing: improving blockchain scalability and transaction execution speed. They applied what they had learned at Robinhood—high concurrency, low latency, and matching engine mechanisms—directly to the public blockchain, which is now known as #SEI. At the time, many people mocked them: "Another public blockchain? It's already 2022, and you're still competing in infrastructure?" But they firmly believed in one principle: In the early days of the internet, people also laughed at "boring protocols" like TCP/IP and HTTP. Yet without them, there would be no Amazon or WeChat today. Ultimately, #SEI raised $35 million in funding, and its token valuation once soared to $2.7 billion. What they are most proud of from the interview isn’t the scale of their achievements. It’s the fact that Southeast Asian small merchants are now using USDC to make instant transfers on Sei, Latin American freelancers are using it to avoid hyperinflation in their countries, and developers are building truly decentralized exchanges on it—no middlemen, no freezes, no "Sorry, the system is under maintenance." Jayendra recalls that leaving Robinhood in 2022 was the boldest yet most correct decision of his life. As a cautious and conservative person, he feared failure, losing income, and being labeled as "just another crypto scammer." But he eventually came to a realization: The biggest risk is not failure, but seeing a problem clearly and yet not daring to take action to improve or fix it. Their entrepreneurial journey has been deeply inspiring to me. Many people think you should wait to "be ready" before starting a business: wait until your skills are better, your experience is richer, or your savings are larger. But the truth is—you will never be fully ready. True growth happens the day after you resign, when you pitch to strangers for the first time and get ignored, and when you smile through team meetings even after three months of not being able to pay salaries. If you're at a big company writing CRUD code, but there's always a voice in your heart asking, "Is this really meaningful?" Then I want to tell you: Stop waiting. Problems won't solve themselves, nor will opportunities wait for you to "be perfect." Sometimes, leaving a comfortable job is the real beginning of your career. The crypto world is not a casino; it’s a blank canvas for those willing to redefine money, trust, and freedom using code, logic, and courage. Jayendra's story deeply moved me. He could have stayed in his comfort zone, but he chose to take a leap of faith, to make a change. That kind of audacity and courage, and his dissatisfaction with the status quo, are what resonate with me and form one of the key reasons why I believe in #SEI! 🧐