Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan's 31 rules on life & building — raw alpha from someone who rejected $1B and runs a top DEX with 11 people:

On Money & Product:

💰 Money is just numbers. Trading teaches you that.

🚪 Can't answer "what value did you create?" → leave.

🎯 Build what's interesting AND useful. Rest follows.

On People & Management:

❌ Hiring wrong > not hiring at all.

🧠 Team = 11 people. Only 2 have crypto exp. Rest are CS nerds and internet natives.

📉 Don't manage → give hard tasks, then step back.

⚡ The more one person can do solo, the better.

On Funding & Strategy:

🔥 Zero VC. Zero insider perks. Zero team allocation.

💎 "If Bitcoin took VC money, it wouldn't be Bitcoin."

🛡️ Turned down $1B because neutrality > capital.

On Execution:

⏰ 14h/day. 100h/week.

👕 15 shorts + 10 tees. Self-haircut.

🧘 Sunday mornings = rest.

📢 No marketing team. No big launch events.

🎯 Win by doing LESS: less hype, less noise, more engineering, more real users.

This is what conviction looks like. No fluff. No committees. Just execution and alignment with users.