This week, we welcome Visualize Value Founder Jack Butcher to the podcast. Butcher is a seasoned creative director who has worked with some of the most successful brands in existence. After a decade of working in Fortune 100 advertising, Butcher completely rebuilt his personal brand and business model through productizing himself, and now focuses on educating those that are building in NFTs and web3.

In this episode we cover:

- His pivot from advertising into NFTs

- Keeping up with trends while filtering out the excess noise

- The importance of using his voice/platform to give back to important causes

- Visual storytelling and the most effective platforms and approaches to drive mainstream adoption and understanding

- What he looks for when collecting NFTs

- And much more…

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This week, we’re excited to welcome Dillon Francis. Dillon Francis is a chart topping electronic musician, record producer and DJ. Throughout 2021 Dillon has been experimenting with clever ways to engage his community and drive growth through NFTs, and in this episode we work through how other musicians can do the same. 

In this episode we cover:

- Why he feels NFTs are similar to the early days of EDM

- Some of his recent projects like DeFi Summer with Chad Knight on Nifty Gateway, the Charity NFTs with Nicole Ruggerio and Hard Fork & Harder Fork with Pizza Slime

- As an active supporter of DeFi, what are his thoughts on the intersection of DeFi and NFTs

- His thoughts on the future of Metaverse music performances

- What excites him the most about the future of NFTs

- And much more...

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This week, we’re excited to welcome Andy Krainak, the president of VeeFriends, Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT project. The collection launched in May 2021, with the goal of providing a blueprint on how to add real value, utility and community to NFTs. 

In this episode, we cover:

- What VeeFriends is and how it works

- The project’s core utility elements

- How Krainak plans to keep iterating upon community utility

- How Krainak fosters and manages such an engaged community

- How to balance creating value for NFT holders with the barrier to entry as prices rise

- Krainak’s advice for NFT creators and artists on how they can create value

- Lessons Krainak has learned building and launching VeeFriends

- Projects that are innovating upon community and utility

- What’s next for VeeFriends

- And much more!

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To follow VeeFriends on Instagram, go here: https://www.instagram.com/veefriends/

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This week, we’re excited to welcome Richerd Chan, the co-founder of Manifold.xyz, a leading studio that creates blockchain products and custom smart contracts for artists. In October, Richerd made headlines when he displayed his diamond hands and turned down a nearly $10 million offer for his CryptoPunk #6046. “My punk is not for sale,” he tweeted at the time. “Don’t care what anyone offers me.”

In this episode, we cover:

- Why he rejected the offer of 2,500 ETH for his CryptoPunk

- What a smart contract is and why they’re important in the NFT space

- Why artists and projects need custom smart contracts, and the innovation and utility they can unlock.

- The origin story and mission of Manifold

- How Richerd decides who to partner with on projects, and his favorite projects

- How his open-source Royalty Registry can help solve the cross-platform secondary sales issue

- The most exciting potential use cases for custom smart contracts

- And much more!

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To follow Manifold on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/manifoldxyz

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This week, we’re excited to welcome Bobby Hundreds, an artist and co-founder of popular streetwear brand The Hundreds, which has collaborated with influential NFT projects such as Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Larva Labs, the company behind CryptoPunks. The Hundreds launched its own NFT project, Adam Bomb Squad, in August.

In this episode, we cover:

- How The Hundreds got into NFTs

- What Bobby Hundreds saw at the intersection of NFTs and culture at NFT.NYC and ComplexCon

- How to bring a streetwear and lifestyle brand into the NFT space

- The Adam Bomb Squad, and the future of the project

- How fashion brands can leverage NFTs

- The cultural milestones needed for NFTs to reach mainstream adoption

- And much more!

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This week, we’re excited to welcome the pseudonymous GMoney, an influential NFT collector who was an early champion of CryptoPunks and has emerged as a respected voice in the space. Recognizable by his signature ape CryptoPunk, GMoney recently launched his own podcast, The Cutting Edge, which focuses on the intersection of culture and crypto.

In this episode, we cover:

- GMoney’s journey into NFTs

- His thesis about the CryptoPunks project

- His strategy as a collector and where he gets his alpha

- The motivation behind his podcast

- How he balances IRL appearances with not doxing himself

- Trends he’s seeing in the NFT space

- Advice he has for new collectors discovering NFTs

- The Metaverso summit he’s holding in Puerto Rico

- His favorite NFTs, and his plans for the GMoney brand

- And much more!

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To follow him on Instagram, go here: @gmoneynft

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This week, we’re excited to welcome Donnie Dinch, CEO of Bitski. The NFT platform — which connects communities, creators and brands — made news in May when it announced it had raised $19 million in its Series A funding round, with hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and tennis icon Serena Williams among its investors. 

In this episode, we cover:

- Bitski’s mission and its play in the metaverse

- How Jay-Z and Serena Williams became investors

- Dinch’s thoughts on the future regulation of NFTs and how that could impact platforms

- The milestones Dinch feels are critical for mainstream adoption

- The less heralded use cases for NFTs and trends Dinch is watching

- And much more!

To follow Donnie Dinch on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/donnie

To follow Bitski on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/bitski

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This week we’re excited to welcome noted NFT collector 0xb1 and Creative Artists Agency talent agent Tom Capone. The two made news recently when CAA signed the collector with the goal of monetizing 0xb1’s impressive NFT collection — which includes Bored Ape Yacht Club, Cool Cats and more — through brand partnerships and licensing opportunities.

In this episode, we discuss:

- How 0xb1 got into crypto and transitioned from DeFi into the NFT space

- What motivated the collector to buy Mutant Ape #4849 for 350 ETH and build a brand around it

- How CAA’s NFT department came together

- The backstory of 0xb1’s signing to the influential talent agency and how the partnership came to be

- The future of entertainment, brands, and media as it pertains to NFTs

- And much more!

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To follow CAA on Instagram, go here: https://www.instagram.com/creativeartistsagency/

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In this episode, we’re excited to welcome Tommy Wilson, who pitches in the minor leagues for the New York Mets. Wilson, who currently plays for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, is not only an avid crypto artist on the SuperRare marketplace, but is also one of the first professional athletes to be active in the NFT space. He has also helped introduce fellow baseball players to NFTs, including Mets star first baseman Pete Alonso.

In this episode, we cover:

- Wilson’s journey into making digital art, the reaction he received from teammates about his foray into NFTs, and how he convinced them to take it seriously

- How he enlisted Mets’ infielder Pete Alonso to do an NFT to benefit minor leaguers, and the MLB’s reaction to it

- How NFTs can help empower minor league players

- Where Wilson sees the intersection of NFTs and baseball going

- Why he chose to release his art on SuperRare

- And much more!

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In this episode we’re excited to welcome Avery Akkineni, President of VaynerNFT. VaynerNFT, a subsidiary of Gary Vaynerchuk’s VaynerX, is helping big brands and talent tastefully leverage NFTs to drive community and business growth. Prior to leading VaynerNFT, Avery oversaw Asia-Pacific for VaynerX and has a long-standing track record of helping brands thrive in the digital landscape. 

In this episode we cover:

- The founding story of VaynerNFT

- What is the goal of VaynerNFT? What are the core offerings and types of partners they’re working with?

- How do NFTs create a new opportunity to tap into underpriced attention?

- What have you seen brands do wrong in entering the space?

- What are her favorite brand NFT activations to date? 

- What advice does she have for brands and marketers that are beginning to evaluate a potential NFT strategy for their business?

- And much more!

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