DROPS E45: @0G_labs - How To Get Paid By AI Instead Of Being Replaced By It @michaelh_0g is the co-founder of @0G_labs. A year after the 0G token launch, he's back to talk about what went wrong, what he'd do again, and why he thinks compute is the next financial asset. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:06 Two Highlights Before 0G 04:11 Was Garten A Failure? 04:43 What Failure Teaches That Success Can't 06:42 Inside The 0G TGE War Room 08:38 What Happened To ZeroStack? 09:13 Delay The Launch Or Ship Anyway? 10:34 Would He Make The Same Call Again? 11:32 Conviction Or Momentum? 12:07 Multi-Billion Valuation, Unready Ecosystem 13:08 What Happened After The Token Launched 14:41 When People Tie Their Ego To Price 17:22 Newborn Daughter vs. A Business In Crisis 18:39 Why 0G Didn't Disappear In The Bear 20:34 Reviving 0G: Is AI The Answer? 23:03 How Is This Different From Venice AI? 24:39 ComputeFi, Explained Simply 25:22 Why Not Just Buy Compute With Yield? 26:35 Financializing Intelligence Itself? 26:59 Intelligence vs. Useful Intelligence 27:46 Why Compute Becomes A Financial Asset 29:07 The World If ComputeFi Wins 30:26 How ComputeFi Could Be Wrong 31:47 What People Still Miss About ComputeFi 32:56 Everything Gets Tokenized: Who Stands Out? 36:29 What A Decentralized Anthropic Can Do 38:33 Why Decentralized AI Matters To You 39:52 How Normal People Can Contribute 41:50 The AI Truth That'll Be Obvious In 5 Years 43:57 The September 2027 Prediction 45:48 Closing thoughts