Sahil Lavingia is the CEO and founder of Gumroad, one of the biggest platforms online for selling digital assets. Gumroad has generated over $750,000,000 in revenue for creators since 2011. It's one of the best platforms to sell online courses, templates, content graphics and animations, etc.
This episode is on how Sahil Lavingia built Gumroad to a company that's worth between $100 million and $500 million. This is also an episode on how you can start making money online by selling digital assets.
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Who would've thought that the best way to market your business in 2022 is to shitpost (post shit) online? At least that goes for Web 3. And that's one of the most sought-after skills at the moment: Launching in a native Web 3 fashion.
My guest for the week was NFT Shitposter and copywriter at Vayner3, Alan Carroll. Alan has one goal in mind: to be the best memer in Web 3. I wanted to have this episode so everyone can learn the importance of shitposting and tips and tricks on shitposting.
Galaxy Fight Club is a blockchain-based mobile game that is the 1st Cross-IP PvP game in the NFT space. They are bringing together IPs from different projects and letting them compete in their game.
My guest for the week was the CMO of Galaxy Fight Club, Yas.
Yas joined me to discuss what Galaxy Fight Club is trying to accomplish and how they plan on reaching the mass market.
Every major company will have to explore gaming at some point if the metaverse is actually going to be a real thing. This episode is for any entrepreneur who wants to learn how to scale a gaming platform.
Spottie WiFi, the CryptoPunk rapper, joined me this week to discuss the TRUE value of music NFTs. Are music NFTs just songs on a blockchain? That's what I've been lead to believe, but Spottie thinks they are more than that.
At their core, NFTs are contracts. The same can be said for music NFTs. What can these smart contracts actually do for NFT holders?
There is so much undiscovered potential in the music NFT space and Spottie WiFi joined me to help me uncover it for you guys this week.
As it stands right now, the NFT community is looking for something different. Besides these damn goblins, the market has been screaming... "Yo, I'm bored!" Kerrin Arora, founder of CrowdWyse, joined me to discuss the importance of DAO marketplaces. What happens when you can trade DAO assets? When all DAO tokens are seen in one place?
If you've tuned into my channel, you've seen me talk about the best upcoming NFT projects quite often. But there's me talking about the best upcoming NFT projects and then there's RiceFarmer talking about the best upcoming NFT projects.
My special guest for the week was one of the best ALPHA guys in the NFT space. RiceFarmer consistently talks about the best upcoming NFT projects and the NFT space in general on Twitter. He can also be found in various Discords, consistently researching the NFT market. He is very up to date with NFT market trends.
The Cool Cats NFT Project was supposed to release their Play2Earn NFT game, Cooltopia, along with their Cool Pets NFT drop. But not everything went as planned. When the Cool Cats NFT Project released their $MILK token and Cooltopia, the system was attacked by bots. They had to push back the evolution of their Cool Pet NFTs, as well as all of Cooltopia.
The NFT community didn't have the most positive response to this situation. A lot of Cool Cats NFT holders sold their Cool Cats NFTs, as the floor price for the NFT project went from 15 ETH to 7-8 ETH.
1/1 Demon Cat holder, SighDuck, who is heavily involved in the Cool Cats community, joined me to discuss the future of Cooltopia. Should Cool Cats NFT holders still have conviction in the NFT project? Was it reasonable to sell their Cool Cats NFTs? Will the Cool Cats make a comeback? Will Cooltopia reach the level it was meant to?
The NFT and Crypto markets are both new and speculative markets. The NFT market even more so than the crypto market. What do you do when the market is experiencing extreme volatility? What type of mindset do you need?
My guest for the week was the CEO and founder of CoinGecko, TM Lee. CoinGecko is the most used crypto site in the world. You can use CoinGecko to compare different crypto stats and now NFT metrics as well.
My guest for the week was the co-founder of the Weather Report NFT Project, Toby Lasso. What's the next 10x NFT? What is the next big NFT project? Look no further than the Weather Report NFT Project. The Weather Report NFT Project is an upcoming NFT project that is being built to become an international brand. What makes this NFT project so special? Why should everyone be looking into it?
Throughout the episode, we discussed:
- Cool Cats influence on the NFT space and Toby Lasso
- Inspiration behind Weather Report NFTs
- What makes Weather Report NFTs different
- Toby' analysis of 2021 NFTs vs 2022 NFTs
Vinnie Hager is a renowned artist in the NFT space and the creator of the NFT collection, Letters. Vinnie is known for his unique iconographic art style and for how he puts together symbols.
On the podcast, Vinnie and I discussed: why Vinnie chose art, his mentality towards his career, what made him get to where he is today, his collection Letters, his iconographic style of art, and more!
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If you’re in the NFT space, you’ve heard of Coolman’s Universe by now. The Coolman’s Universe is an NFT project by one of the biggest artists in the world, Danny Casale… otherwise known as Coolman CoffeeDan. This project will unveil the characters in Danny’s mind and follow the story of Danny’s main character, Spesh. The whole point of Coolman’s Universe is to follow Spesh’s story of him trying to find his best friend.
Throughout the episode, we discussed:
- What is Coolman’s Universe?
- Who is Spesh and where did the inspiration come from?
- Danny’s journey to get to this point
- The future of Coolman’s Universe
Throughout all of 2021, the NFT community has been skeptical of celebrity NFT projects and with good reason. They have been mostly cashgrabs. 2022 is starting off differently. Ozzy Osbourne is releasing his NFT project, CryptoBatz, and the utility behind this project is much different from anything you've seen so far in the NFT space. My guest for the week was my good friend and community manager of the CryptoBatz project, Dannyphantom.eth.
Throughout the episode, Danny and I discussed:
- the utility behind the project
- what separates this project from other NFT projects
- symbolism behind the project
- Ozzy Osbourne's participation
I decided to dedicate my last episode of 2021 to what I love most about the NFT space... developing NFT projects for big brands. My guest for the week was the President of VaynerNFT, Avery Akkineni.
VaynerNFT is Gary Vaynerchuk's leading NFT development/consultant agency. They've launched several projects for F500 companies in 2021, as well as other big brands. Miss Avery has overseen the launch and execution of NFT projects for Pepsi, Budweiser, Like Nastya, Robert Mondavi Wine, the US Open for tennis, Bojangles, and more.
Many people within the NFT space are skeptical of big brands entering the space in an unauthentic way. VaynerNFT is here to help guide these brands into the space in the most genuine way possible. They want these F500 companies to earn the trust of the NFT community.
You've probably seen at least 1 person with ".eth" in their username on social media by now. Why are people using ".eth"? What's the significance behind ENS?
My guest for the week was director of operations at ENS, Brantly Millegan. Mr. Brantly joined the show to help me answer these questions and really delve into the concept of our Web 3 identities and why ENS names are some of the most important NFTs you can obtain.
Thank you all for watching and I hope you found value in the episode.
The route to "making it" in the music industry is different than it used to be. The traditional route of dealing with labels, managers, agents, etc. is going out of style. Why? Because of blockchain. Blockchain has given rise to the creator economy and my guest for the week, Austin Virts, joined me to discuss what Audius is up to in 2022. Austin is the head of marketing at Audius and he was previously the head of marketing at Solana.
Throughout the episode, we discussed:
- What is Audius?
- How you can get paid through Audius
- How Audius is decentralized
- Why artists should upload their sounds to Audius
- Audius for podcasters
Thank you all and I hope you found value in this episode.
This week’s episode is on one of the strongest NFT projects to have come out this year, the Doodles. My guest for the week was the founder of the Doodles, Evan Keast.
Throughout the episode, I really wanted to emphasize how the Doodles caught culture within the NFT community and how they plan to expand beyond the NFT community in the future.
Where to Buy: Doodles OpenSea
(EPISODE WAS RECORED LAST WEDNESDAY)
The Sandbox Alpha release is finally here which means I had to bring back one of my favorite guests, Marcus, to help me cover the release. Marcus Blasche is the marketing director at the Sandbox who has had a long career in the gaming field. I brought Marcus on to cover the release of the Sandbox to the public.
NFT NYC marked the end of the introductory chapter of NFTs. Now its time to write chapter 1.
What does this next chapter look like? What will 2022 have in store for NFT projects and the NFT community? One of the biggest NFT YouTubers and someone I call my friend, @NFT Verse joined me on the podcast this week.
We recapped all the cool events that went down at NFT NYC 2021 and looked ahead at what's to come in the NFT space in 2022.
Throughout the episode, we discussed:
- metaverse land and what's the best land to buy
- the NFT market in 2021 recap
- what will NFTs look like in 2022?
- upcoming NFT projects
- upcoming play-2-earn games
One of the best teams in the NFT space is about ready to release their NFT collection. They've been hyping this project up for months. The entire NFT community is ready to see this. This episode will serve as a perfect prelude to their drop.
My guest for the week was co-founder of RTFKT Studios, Zaptio. Zaptio is one of the most renowned figures in the NFT space. He not only helped found RTFKT Studios, but he has created some of the most recognizable fashion NFTs.
Throughout the episode, we discussed:
- the creation of Clone X
- what Clone X will bring to the table in the NFT space
- Zaptio's entrance to RTFKT and his creativity
- the future of the NFT space and what role RTFKT plays in that.
