Asia Tech Podcast

EP 176 - Geir Windsvoll - co-Founder Panya Studios - How Will These Economies Start to Interact?

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The Asia Tech Podcast really appreciated having Geir Windsvoll sit with us in the studio at True Digital Park.  Geir is a Founding Partner of Santora Nakama and a co-Founder and the CEO of Panya Studios.  Panya Studios is a Web 3.0 studio building P2P Games, Live Shopping for the metaverse, and other projects leveraging unique assets.  Geir is also one of the most thoughtful entrepreneurs that I have met.

Some of the topics that we covered:

  • Raising funds while in an apartment and then from the beach during the early part of the pandemic
  • Actually going back to the same island where he originally lived in Thailand 14 years ago
  • Finally moving back to Koh Pha Ngan
  • The island has become very international with a big blockchain emphasis
  • Why he believes there is a huge opportunity for Thailand to build remote ecosystems
  • ICOs, CryptoKitties and the birth of NFTs
  • The rise and fall of Panya's original trivia show
  • Using gamification to pivot to live shopping
  • Diving deeper into Non-Fungible Tokens and how they change the game for Web 3.0
  • Cultural literacy and cultural inclusion
  • Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

    • Other titles we considered for this episode:

    1. Fast and Painful Years
    2. You Don’t Need to Have That On Your Bucket List
    3. I Feel Like I Am Home Again
    4. We Thought It Would Be Easy
    5. Am I Really That Bad At Explaining Things?
    6. Content Is Still King
    7. Can We Just Change the Strategy?
      8. ...more
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