Mint Season 5 episode 16 welcomes Alex Masmej, creator of $ALEX token and co-founder of the web3 Instagram alternative Showtime.xyz, joins Mint to share why free NFTs will be the trojan horse for creators and new users during the 2022 bear market.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• 00:36 - Intro
• 07:44 - Showtime's Origin Story
• 13:01 - The Evolution of Social Tokens and Creator Coins since $ALEX
• 17:56 - Thesis on Web3 Social
• 26:58 - Understanding Soulbound Tokens
• 35:32 - How To Make Money Off Free NFTs
• 43:32 - Downside of Soulbound Tokens
• 45:31 - What Would You Ask Steve Jobs Today?
• 47:44 - Outro

I hope you enjoy our conversation. 

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OpenSea Co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer share his vision for the next billion users in web3 and NFTs.

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Mint Season 5 episode 15 welcomes Erik Reppel, head of Data at Zora, who joins Mint to give us an intro on all things blockchain data: from why NFT project founders and creators should analyze their collector's activity to how to apply these insights to grow their community.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• 00:09 - Intro
• 13:10 - What Does Ownership Mean in Web3?
• 26:27 - Designing Custom Experiences for Collectors using Data
• 27:40 - The Downside of Blockchain Transparency
• 34:44 - Web3 Has a Metadata Problem
• 41:17 - Where Does Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Play a Role in Web3?
• 47:13 - Outro

I hope you enjoy our conversation. 

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Dave Young of the $PLAY community shares his tip for surviving a crypto bear market.

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Mint Season 5 episode 14 welcomes Nass, Chief Information Security Officer at a16z, who joins Mint to share his life as an early graffiti artist, to leading Facebook’s crypto arm, and now building his NFT side hustle, Rebels.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• 00:07 - Intro
• 04:24 - Most Common Security Vulnerabilities NFT Projects Adopt
• 06:42 - Lessons Learned While Building Facebook's Crypto Arm
• 15:55 - What is Rebels?
• 18:11 - Rebel's Innovative NFT Features
• 29:58 - Building a Multi-dimensional NFT Project
• 33:47 - How To Show Off That You Own an Audio NFT?
• 47:00 - How Did You Get Into Graffiti Art?
• 48:41 - Building Hype: How To Build a Die Hard NFT Community
• 58:30 - Outro

I hope you enjoy our conversation. 

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Gary Vaynerchuk tackles shares some tips on how to launch an NFT project. 

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Iconic DJ and NFT advocate Steve Aoki share his journey into web3. 

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Mint Season 5 episode 13 welcomes Mirror’s Growth Engineer Patrick Rivera who shares why you should think twice before dismissing the opportunity to mint a writing NFT.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• 00:09 - Intro
• 06:41 - The Ideal Creator on Mirror
• 08:41 - Essential Tools To Build A Community
• 12:45 - Soulbound Tokens
• 22:23 - Why Collect a Writing NFT
• 24:26 - Why Mint a Writing NFT?
• 26:26 - NFTs as Social Graphs
• 29:36 - Insights Discovered While Building Mirror
• 34:34 - What Virality Looks Like in Web3?
• 37:06 - Outro

I hope you enjoy our conversation. 

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Gary Vaynerchuk tackles the question of how independent artists should be thinking about music NFTs. 

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Mint Season 5 episode 12 welcomes gmoney, the collector of JPEGS, occasional disrupter, and all-around NFT advocate.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• 00:56 - Intro
• 10:01 - Tips for Building a Personal Brand
• 15:20 - Pseudonymous Identity in Crypto
• 19:47 - The Free Mint: Bootstrapping a Web3 CRM
• 29:10 - Preserving Quality with Curated Communities
• 31:12 - Why The Bear Market Energy Reveals Your True Colors
• 35:07 - Gmoney's Love for Fashion
• 38:22 - Where Do You See the World of Web Three and Fashion Colliding?
• 44:50 - How Will Web3 Revolutionize Fashion?
• 47:23 - Admit 1: Why Build An Independent Marketplace?
• 48:00 - Outro

I hope you enjoy our conversation. 

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