How Pump.fun Plans to Beat Social Media Giants and Win Beyond Crypto - Ep.901
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As I'm sure you're very well aware, a lot of people criticize PumpFun and, like, similar platforms saying it's gambling or it's the MemeCoin Casino. And I wondered what your response is to those critics.
I know just, like, have a higher IQ, I guess.
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin. This is the 09/11/2025 episode of Unchained. The crypto world is buzzing. On October, 25,000 people will be at Token 2,049 Singapore, the largest crypto event in the world, featuring headline speakers like Eric Trump, Vlad Tenev, Tom Lee, Balaji Srinivasan, and Arthur Hayes. Visit asia.token2049.com now to get 15% off tickets with the code UNCHANED. Today's guest is Noah Tweedale, cofounder of PumpFun. Welcome, Noah.
Hey, how's it going?
I'm really good. I'm so excited to chat with you guys. PumpFun is clearly one of the biggest crypto successes in the last couple of years. It's become one of the fastest companies to reach not only profitability, but also rake in huge amounts of revenue. You recently crossed $840,000,000 in revenue. Your company also recently raised $1,200,000,000 in an ICO. You have even bigger ambitions to compete with social media giants. But I want to talk about the recent period because it's not only have you had this wild ride the last couple years, but it's been sort of condensed this summer, I would sa
I mean, that's a it's a it's a it's a cool question because I think, like, I mean, obviously, the past sort of couple months, were sort of pretty crazy, I guess, from the outside perspective. But I mean, this company now, I mean, has been alive or existed since even before sort of 2023, right? So we've had a humongous amount of sort of ups and downs, like really sort of like all the way down, like this is completely over, like this company is going to shut down. Sort of, this is doing sort of super well and then just continue sort of pushing it out. So I think, it was from the outside, I know
By talk you just you mean let's bonk?
Yeah. Correct. Yeah. And then, so we're on sort of there, and then obviously the sort of token launches, and, I mean, I'll just be honest here, like myself, Arlon and Dylan, the sort of three founders, like, we hadn't had a holiday in literally, like, one and a half years. Like, we were working sort of seven days a week. We still are, but we we we told ourselves, like, no matter what happens after this token launch, let's just take, a week or something off to sort of, like, just, like, relax a bit. So that's what we did, and I think that's when the whole sort of, like, chaos sort of, chaos sor
Oh, okay. So during that period when people were like, they raised all this money, but there's no communication. You guys were actually on vacation.
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