Episode 36 with Meta Alchemist the Founder of Seedify Co-Hosted with Kelano (@kelano_eth)

Time Stamps:

01:30 Gaming meta

03:24 Why does Kelano get fud?

04:25 Strategies for a healthy launch

08:08 Predicting the secondary market

11:37 Discussing token health

13:07 Web3 games have no gamers

17:30 Ease of access to play games

20:13 Web3 games failure points + how

@SeedifyFund aims to helps this

27:00 Current gaming landscape

32:12 Formula for capturing attention

37:30 Evolving metas

44:30 Third wave of gaming

49:00 Looking ahead

Episode 35 With Zagabond the Founder of Azuki "It was listed for 10 Million Dollars. When I first saw it I thought it was crazy. But, in the right hands a domain like that could be so valuable"

Timetstamps:

0:00:07 Intro

0:01:33 Conferences and brand building

0:08:06 "Building the open Anime universe"

0:15:17 How the Idea Maze impacted ZAGABOND life and helped form Azuki

0:22:29 The big bets that Azuki is making

0:27:40 High overlap with anime fans and collecting

0:32:00 "Be careful about what you pretend to be"

0:39:39 How Anime dot com happened

0:43:42 Value proposition of Anime chain with @arbitrum

0:48:01 Would Azuki be successful without NFTs?

0:53:58 "People just want stories" Targeting anime lovers

0:56:22 Outlasting competition

0:58:24 What is next? Anime coin and more

We spoke about the growth of the education industry.

Private and decentralized educational verticals are increasingly becoming popular

There will always be a market for education

00:06 Coming up

02:21 IRL events upside + downside

06:20 Non native attendees

08:07 Education x Entertainment

10:15 Journey and experinece of a community member

15:39 Having a blockchain strategy is like having a social media strategy

16:44 Power of touch points. Founder to Founder

19:41 Where are web2 founders consuming crypto content?

24:33 Tokenized Education

27:27 Traditional education system

31:54 Allow learners to prove that they have learned

33:40 Open Campus vision for the next decade

40:27 Law of Focus

43:20 Education is forced to iterate

49:42 What's next

Timestamps:

00:04 Intro

01:16 Co-founder story between

03:03 Selecting a co-founder and why Anthony selected Jacq

04:26 Addressing the markets needs

05:41 Unique skill-sets that helped build

09:05 "Do we help these ecosystems feel more informed. Our job is very simple"

11:57 Is there a supply and demand issue in crypto?

14:25 Who are their ideal partners?

15:02 Current milestones

15:58 Which problems deserve more attention?

19:07 Does crypto have a traditional business cycles?

20:53 A Co-founders day to day

23:35 Growing beyond the current ecosystem

25:00 The big picture

26:46 What is brand?

Episode 33 With

Andrew Saunders

the Chief Marketing and Growth Officer at

Skale Network

Andrew was the former Global Head of Entertainment + Culture At Amazon HQ. Driving many campaigns across all areas of entertainment and pop culture including television, streaming, movies, podcasts, sports, gaming, celebrity talent and more

00:07 Coming up

02:09 What is Skale?

07:33 Chains are only as good as their products

09:33 Meeting consumers where they are. Data matching

12:07 Modern marketing tactics

16:47 Industry decisions are made in a vacuum

19:30 Chain identity

25:33 What is Skale's identity 3

1:15 Is influencer spend worth it? Campaign with Justin Bieber

40:40 Politics involvement with crypto

Intro to the team

Transferable skills from web2 Idea to reality

Early stage product + found something special

First early stage problem + the unknowns Which leverage to build?

Social media numbers?

Brand and IP shelf life Digital twins + pairing products Identity lags reality by 1-2 years

Gameloft partnership + the why?

Law of focus. Words to describe the brand.

If the brand stopped creating content and product would the IP continue to proliferate

We talk the origin story and early days of Animoca, scaling a successful business, deploying capital efficiently, what's next and much more

00:07 Intro

01:20 Robbys life before crypto

03:11 The 4 year business pivot

06:27 Failing in business

08:13 Learning curve and technological familiarity

10:50 $75 Million to $6 Billion

12:29 Three pieces of advice to entrepreneurs

15:01 What is Animoca Brands?

16:50 $500 Million deployed as investments

18:08 Investing fundamentals (Not Investment Advice)

21:57 "You always feel like you're too late, when in fact a lot of us are too early"

25:19 Growth of third-party IP. Cardinal Rule?

29:40 Downside of IP. When it goes wrong

31:37 "Businesses don't die of starvation, they die of indigestion"

33:12 Will bitcoin always dominate micro conditions?

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0:01:44 "Pizza Maxi"

0:02:39 Adams brand

0:03:47 How Adam got in to crypto

0:08:14 Early crypto days with Silicon Valley and Jack Dorsey

0:10:55 Cash App in the early days

0:19:27 Startup culture back then and now

0:22:40 Pirate Nation and their thoughts of a saturated market

0:25:09 How does the team view competition

0:29:15 Why shouldn't brands wait for retail or adoption

0:32:03 Why bet on this team?

0:35:00 Gaining competitive advantage

0:39:26 Communities the next decade

0:49:38 Multi-chain is the future + launching the second chain

1:00:15 What's next?

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Timestamps:

00:03 Intro

01:40 How did Luke join brave?

04:21 Vision of BrendanEich

09:06 Do end users care about their data being mined?

11:30 Why Web3? User-first principle

18:48 The North Star. Main focus

23:02 What is BAT? We can earn it

26:33 Community diversity

45:00 Global adoption

48:27 Importance of community feedback loop

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0:00:03 Coming up

0:02:18 Who is Jeff Nicholas?

0:04:12 Most memorable moment in crypto

0:07:09 How did Jeff join BAYC?

0:10:20 Day-to-day as a Creative Director

0:12:50 Internal culture shift from CEO change + current blindspots

0:22:35 BAYC biggest mistakes

0:29:02 How does the team prioritize what to focus on?

0:31:06 Status of Otherside

0:33:00 Community expectations

0:38:03 Litmus test of products being shippe