NFT Heat

This week we feature Avery Akkineni the President of VaynerNFT, a venture alongside Gary Vaynerchuk which was created to help the world's leading intellectual property owners navigate the wild and wonderful world of NFTs. She previously launched VaynerMedia's expansion into APAC via Singapore; where she grew a team from 0 to 150, opened offices in Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Sydney, and was awarded the 2021 Independent Agency of the Year (Gold), within 2 years. Prior to joining Vayner, she worked at DoubleClick, YouTube, and Google Search, in both Silicon Valley and New York City.

Shannon Schlappi, founder of Intellictible Holdings – Juicy Drops which just did the most recent Doja Cat NFT drop and is a blockchain powered AR/VR/NFT Creative Lab & Platform Development company leading Music, Sports, and Live Experiences into the Metaverse. The goal of the company is to empower artists, brands, athletes, and public figures to unleash their creative capital and take control over their distribution channels in new and exciting ways that will delight fans and grow the bottom line.

This week we feature Sterling Campbell, CEO of Minotaur. Minotaur is an end-to-end NFT solution for creators. They are leveraging the asymmetric economic opportunity in NFT 10k drops to build the operating system for creators on Web3.

This week we feature Jon Radoff, one of the brightest minds in the NFT space. He is the CEO of Beamable, whose mission is to fight for the game-maker: helping them socialize, monetize and scale their games. When he is not behind a computer screen or with his team, you'll probably find him in the kitchen, on top of a mountain, or diving beneath the ocean. He’s also married to the woman he first met online and dropped-out of college to start a game studio. 

This week we feature Maryam Mazraei,  who has over 7 years of experience working in both startup and scale-up environments in a range of industries such as SaaS, AI/ML and Fintech. 

Maryam is no stranger to the startup world. She founded her first company at the age of 18 and one of her most recognized works called Autopsy, captured the attention of the likes of Marc Andreessen and featured in top publications such as Bloomberg, Business Insider and the Wall Street Journal.

She has been involved in the Blockchain and Web3 space since 2015 and is keen to support more opportunities in this space in the UK and Europe.

She is currently a VC Investor at a UK Seed Fund called Ascension, investing across verticals such as Future of Work, B2B Saas, B2C, D2C, Fintech and Impact. She is also part-time Community Lead at Weekend Fund and a Kernel fellow. Alongside this, she is looking into ways to make NFT investing accessible to the mass through fractionalization.

This week we feature Erika Lee one of the top female thought leaders in the NFT space who is a multi-media journalist at KWTV News. Her involvement in the NFT space aside from being a collector and trader,  includes being on the Beeple Punks team and a Mod for various Discord servers. She is also a huge advocate for women in the NFT space and recently gave a talk for the Boss Beauties NFT Summit. 

This week we feature Breanna Faye, the Design Lead at Metarkitex which is an experiential design collective. They have launched a project featuring spatially computed buildings designed specifically for Metaverse utility and real interaction. Their team developed a generative architecture algorithm that stochastically evolves unique architectural forms given an input vector of habitability requirements. The algorithm created buildings without the aid of architects to design them, and is launching an NFT collection of its genesis collection, entitled The Metamerican Dream. 

This week we feature Jamal Dauda, VP of Blockchain at Playboy and one the top NFT thought leaders in the world. 

This week we featuring Emily Landon, The Crypto Recruiter.  This probably our most impactful NFT Heat episode yet. This episode is packed with major NFT alpha on how to break into the NFT world even if you don't have any prior experience! 

This week we feature Sandra H, one of the brightest minds in the NFT space.  She’s currently an NFT & Metaverse Futurist at Zilliqa with an extensive background and knowledge spanning across traditional and digital with a focus on NFT & blockchain, innovation, strategy, marketing, audience growth & engagement, concept creation, partnerships & collaborations. She has worked with such clients such as BBC, Adidas, and Mercedes. She has always been at the forefront of the digital world and its rapid transformation and enjoys finding new ways for businesses and consumers to connect and share experiences and growth.