Mike Wen is the founder and CEO of Gallery. Hundreds of the largest NFT collectors use Gallery to curate and display their NFTs. Mike’s first NFT was a piece by Beeple, and when it netted him 100x profit, he became obsessed with collecting more NFT’s. When he couldn’t find a good way to curate & display his collection, he taught himself to code and created Gallery. Investors took notice and Gallery has now raised $2.69M from Collab+Currency, Coinbase Ventures, Dapper Labs and angel investments from 20+ collectors in the NFT space. Today, Mike is focused on making Gallery the go to place for curating, managing, and displaying NFT's.

In this episode we discuss:

• What NFT's are: https://ethereum.org/en/nft/
• What Gallery is:
  • A space for NFT collectors to display their collections.
  • A set of tools for collectors to manage and curate their NFT's.
  • A place to add meaning and context to NFT's
• How Gallery protects wallet holders from their NFT's being shown without authorization.
• Mike’s first NFT: Beeple
• Some of Mike’s favorite galleries:
  • https://gallery.so/mikey
  • https://gallery.so/jo7
  • https://gallery.so/pleasrdao
  • Pleasrdao is the owner of “The Doge that started it all”:
• How Mike evaluates NFT's and collections
• Securing an investment from Flamingo DAO - - through an interview with a set of black screens.
• How Gallery got the top NFT collectors as users such as FlamingoDAO, DCInvestor, and Kevin Rose
• How to get Gallery membership via OpenSea
• The difference in mind set when building a Web3 company vs. a Web2 company
• How Gallery is growing and the roles it’s hiring for: Gallery's Careers
• If Mike was to do this over again, whether he would’ve done anything differently
• How NFT's will create the texture of who you are online and what you love
• How NFT's will represent more and more items such as tickets, music, and experiences:
  • Books, movies, music
  • Collecting your experiences! For example utilizing PoAp’s, which are badges that represent you were somewhere - https://app.poap.xyz
  • Games - Assets and skills
• Using https://www.artblocks.io as a vending machine to generate your own art
• What Gallery is focused on next
• Taking your gallery anywhere and using it as a jumping off point into any 3D world

Learn More About Gallery

• Gallery's Twitter: @useGALLERY
• Mikey's Twitter: @mikeybitcoin
• Gallery's Open Positions

Gallery Angel Investors Include:

@santiagoroel, @Cooopahtroopa, @gabusch, @DeezeFi, @gregisenberg, @pplpleasr1, @_jamiis, @whatdotcd, @andy8052, @dandelion_eth, @seth, @thattallguy

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