The Cool Hunt

The Cool Hunt

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The Cool Hunt episodes

  • Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz on Building A Billion Dollar Brand

    Luca Netz is the CEO of the Pudgy Penguins, one of the largest NFT collections on Ethereum. We discuss how he bought the collection, flipping Instagram pages, building brands, and a possible $1 million floor price for the Penguins.

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    29 min
  • Policy that Spurs Innovation | Kate Goldman, Crypto Policy Expert
    Kate Goldman is a policy expert with experience ranging from the Milken Institute to Elliptic. We talk about how policy can spur innovation rathe than stifle it.
    (0:00) GM
    (1:55) Why did you buy your first crypto?
    (5:45) What does a policy analyst do?
    (8:15) Zuckerberg and SBF in Congress
    (9:50) George Santos
    (11:50) Going down the crypto rabbit hole
    (21:45) Crypto In and Out of DC’s Purview
    (31:40) Policy that encourages innovation
    (36:05) Potential Regulation in Crypto
    (39:40) Kate’s Policy Fixes
    (43:30) What do you love most about this space?
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    46 min
  • Crypto Education, Startup Lessons and Onboarding the Next Billion Users via Stablecoins | Ben Gusberg, Co-Founder & CEO of Supercharge Finance
    Ben Gusberg is a builder and educator in the space. He is an adjunct professor at USC and co-founder and CEO of Supercharge Finance, a new company building stablecoin infrastructure.
    (0:00) GM
    (2:30) Crypto Starter Kit
    (6:07) Career Investment Framework 
    (11:10) Conducting analysis in the crypto industry
    (16:06) Ben's Aha Moment
    (20:40) Why did you buy your first crypto?
    (22:00) Becoming a professor at USC
    (28:40) Starting Supercharge Finance
    (36:30) Onboarding the next billion users
    (47:05) Minting a Moonbird
    (50:15) What do you love most about this space?
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    55 min
  • NBA Top Shot, Finding Good Data in NFT Land and Cool Cats | @PlungeFather
    @PlungeFather is an OG in the NFT space, from being an early NBA Top Shot enthusiast to starting his own Twitch Stream and hosting the Cool Cats founders on Mint day. We also worked together at Coinbase for over a year. Enjoy the show!
    (0:00) GM
    (1:53) Buying your First NFT
    (3:23) Introduction to NBA Top Shot
    (7:20) Finding Good Data Sources in Crypto
    (9:56) Why Did You Buy Your First Crypto?
    (13:10) Building a Twitter Following & Starting a Twitch Stream
    (31:30) Streaming with Cool Cats Founders on Mint Day
    (42:00) Building Strong NFT Communities
    (50:56) Onboarding the Next Wave of Users
    (56:10) What Do You Love Most About The Space?
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    1 hr 1 min
  • Web 3 Gaming, Digesting NFT Information, and Onboarding the Next Wave of Users | Willy Wu, Co-Founder of Arcade.Inc
    Willy Wu is the co-founder of Arcade.inc, a metaverse project in the Web 3 space. 
    (0:00) GM
    (2:07) Why did you buy your first ETH?
    (4:57) Getting introduced to NFTs
    (11:20) Problems with Web 3 Games
    (19:02) How to learn and consume information
    (24: 40) What makes NFT projects successful?
    (34:04) Beginnings of Arcade.inc
    (40:46) Onboarding the next wave of users
    (45:48) Metaverse land in Arcade
    (52:30) What does the future of Arcade hold?
    (55:13) What do you love most about this space?
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    58 min
  • CryptoArt, Finding Projects Early & Building dApps | @EthereumDegen aka Andrew from Teller Finance
    (0:00) GM
    (1:40) Why did you buy your first ETH?
    (8:05) Teller Finance
    (8:52) How To Be Early
    (18:37) Creating dApps
    (25:20) How do you spend your time online?
    (35:07) What do you look for in collections?
    (43:25) The Royalty Discussion
    (49:08) Open editions
    (52:15) Identifying market trends
    (58:00) What do you love most about this space?
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    1 hr
  • NFT Options, Financial Primitives and Fine Art | Eren, Founder of Wasabi Protocol

    (0:00) GM

    (2:05) Why did you buy your first ETH?

    (6:01) Getting into NFTs

    (7:31) Rugging our parents

    (8:04) Buying your first NFTs

    (18:20) Identifying business needs

    (30:40) NFT Financial Primitives

    (38:45) What is Wasabi?

    (51:30) Alpha from Wasabi Trading Competition

    (1:01:00) What do you love most about the space?


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    This is Episode 1 with Eren Derman, founder of Wasabi Protocol, the first of its kind on-chain NFT options protocol. Listen to learn more about NFT options, Eren's background in fine art, and Wasabi's new trading competition. Join the Hunt!

    1 hr 4 min
  • Cool Hunt's Thesis

    The Cool Hunt is a podcast finding the coolest people, projects and ideas in Web 3 hosted by Karan Karia. This is Episode 0: The Thesis.


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    3 min

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Finding the coolest people, projects and ideas in Web 3. Podcast released twice weekly.