🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talk with a brilliant guest - Eric McHugh who is Chief Growth Officer, and Founder at ShopX. 

Eric’s experience includes ad optimization for Snap Inc, consulting for fortune 500 through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, Dark Matter research at Carnegie Melon University with my brother’s team, and helping found CartRev, a social commerce platform that had over 100 Shopify Brands using its SAAS platform. Presently, Eric is a Chief Growth of SHOPX and views growth as his main responsibility. More specifically, the growth of token holder value, by whatever means necessary within the bounds of reason. His top 3 traits are endless endurance, top-tier perception, and very thick skin.

ShopX is an NFT-as-a-Service (NaaS) suite of solutions that allow businesses to create branded e-commerce NFTs, driving sales and customer engagement in Web3. 

SHOPX equips merchants with the tools they need to have more control over fees, data, and transactions--helping them grow their business and improve the customer experience one purchase at a time.

🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

• Eric's experiences & ShopX origin story.
• Benefits of integrating blockchain & web3 into E-commerce
• Increasing Customer Loyalty with NFTs 
• ShopX Partnership with Avalance 
• Brands that ShopX has partnered with
• NFTs getting into mainstream
• ShopX's traction in the space.
• ShopX on operating in the web3
• Scopes for everyone in the web3.

🔗 Guest Links:

• Be sure to follow Eric on Twitter 
• Check out ShopX if you are an E-commerce brand or consumer and want to dive in Web3. 

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🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with our brilliant guest - Rohan Agrawal, Rohan is the co-founder of Cypherock Wallet, where he is building the world's first web3 wallet without a seed phrase.

Rohan has been developing software since 2014 and has been in the Crypto space since 2017. He has worked with organizations such as Blockgeeks, Fossasia (Google Summer of Code), Apollo Munich, Siftr Labs (acq.), and Samsung amongst others. He is a generalist by nature having worked across both technical and non-technical roles in the past.

Cypherock is a Singapore based venture backed security storage solutions provider intended for blockchain-based digital assets and private keys. The company's product is a hardware wallet in the shape of a mobile case, enabling users to maintain the security level of the blockchain's investment as well as avoid the threat of interruption in the software and provide a physical-digital solution for the safe custody of crypto assets. Cypherock has recently raised $1M to continue on our mission of eliminating SeedPhrases in web3. The startup has raised its funding from Consensys which is founded by Ethereum's cofounder and other Crypto builders in the space. 

🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

• Cypherock's origin story.
• Risks of centralized financial ecosystems.
• Barriers for making self-custody accessible.
• Future of self-custody of crypto assets.
• Biggest edge for Cypherock.
• Asset support and user features roadmap.
• Cypherock's traction in the space.
• Rohan's unique take on the trust challenges for mass adoption.
• Web2 inheritance incompatibility with web3.

🔗 Guest Links:

• Be sure to follow Rohan on Twitter 
• Check out Cypherock if you don’t want to remember your seed phrase ever!

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🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with two brilliant guests - Chris Berry, Co-Founder, Managing Director at Party Hat, Co-founder of TopX, VP-Growth at Koncepted and Anthony Kalasunas, Co-owner & Managing Director at Prime Planet and Account Executive at Koncepted.

Chris previously worked as a Product Manager at Bucksy and Founder of Bitcomex. After dropping out of university to pursue a startup in 2014, Chris spent several years building companies, both large and small, with some successes and some failures. He is a serial entrepreneur who over the past 7 years has scaled multiple companies to 7-8 figures in EBITA, all with small bootstrapped teams. Over time, he became more fascinated with building brands, smart technologies and bridging the gap between media and product. Today, he is currently working with a talented team on a new company called Partyhat; serving as a co-founder and managing director. They are an incubation group that builds brands and partners them with talent. He consults for a variety of international brands and is also writing a book on the psychology of long term MMORPG(Massively multiplayer online game) gameplay endurance and its effects on entrepreneurship, to be published in coming months.

Anthony started in the crypto space in 2013. Having owned and operated several businesses, he has a deep background in management and business relations, both in the hospitality and blockchain industries. He bought his first NFT in mid-2021 and has been fascinated with Web3 ever since. Aside from Prime Planet, he is currently with Koncepted: a design company who specializes in Web3 related content.

🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

• Story of Koncepted and Partyhat.
• Forming a startup as a creative.
• Startup studio focusing on Web3 design.
• Bridge between gaming and Web3
• Keeping up with design trends.
• Design at scale for Web3.
• Scaling in diverse, high risk industries.
• Arts business expanding with NFTs.
• Growing a team and allocating talent.

🔗 Guest Links:

• Be sure to connect with our guests, Chris & Anthony on LinkedIn
• Follow Chris & Anthony on Twitter.
• Check out PrimePlanet NFTs, Koncepted and PartyHat to see how they're making waves in Web3!

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🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with our brilliant guest - Vijay Pravin Maharajan. Vijay is the founder and CEO of bitsCrunch, a blockchain analytics company focused on securing the NFT ecosystem. Vijay is a Masters graduate in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Technical University of Munich and has been recognized as a top data scientist under 40 in India. He has also been nominated as one of the top men leaders to look up to in 2021 by Passion Vista Magazine and one of the inspiring data scientists to follow in 2020 by AI Time Journal.

bitsCrunch is a global data analytics company specializing in multi-chain insights for NFTs and digital assets. The company aims to help retail, institutional, and venture investors make better decisions about crypto assets by offering best-in-class capabilities for creating a sustainable and transparent path. bitsCrunch has recently launched a brand new B2C platform Unleash NFTs. Unleash NFTs is an NFT analytics platform that offers data visualization tools to help users make informed decisions about buying, selling, or holding NFTs. It also provides insights on the NFT market cap, collection performance, and helps users differentiate between genuine and fake volume, as well as determine fair prices and the originality of NFTs.

🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

• Story behind bitsCrunch and how it's making waves today.
• Evolution of NFT market and it's future outlook.
• Core issues plaguing the NFT market.
• Evolving utilities of NFTs.
• Positive indicators in a rocky NFT market.
• bitsCruch's plans to make bigger waves in 2023.
• Unique use cases of NFTs to be excited about.
• Vijay's advice for budding founders in web3.

🔗 Guest Links:

• Be sure to connect with Vijay on LinkedIn, as well as follow on Twitter to engage with him. 
• Check out bitsCrunch to learn more about them and follow them on their Twitter for latest security insights in NFT space!
• Check out bitsCrunch's newest B2C analytics platform Unleash NFTs.

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🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with our brilliant guest - Andrew Yang. Andrew is a Forbes 30 under 30 alumni, graduate of the University of Toronto and previously worked in technology sales for Toronto-based Joist and GE Ventures under the New Business Creation team as an EIR. Been passionate about Web3 and blockchain since 2015, first as a currency, then how the tech could apply to industrial supply chains and now how it can totally reinvent brand-consumer engagement online. 

Cultos is a web3 loyalty platform to help brands drive the consumer outcomes they want (such as higher LTV, net new-consumers or first-party data) by offering a compelling incentive for consumers using tokens. Loyalty programs have lower and lower engagement particularly with Gen-Z (and now Gen Alpha), and traditional online advertisement just isn't working anymore. Cultos solves that by giving consumers a tokenized reward which they can exchange across any brand (as opposed to points), or cash out immediately. Brands get highly engaged consumers who actively promote their products to their social network and ultimately buy more products. Cultos we work with massive brands MGA Entertainment (Bratz, LOL Surprise!), NBA teams (the San Antonio Spurs) to incentivize strong consumer loyalty across commerce, affiliate commerce, mobile, gaming and influencer channels.

🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

• Andrew's journey through web3 and Cultos.
• Web2 vs Web3 loyalty for brands.
• How does web3 loyalty appeals gen Z.
• Using web3 loyalty in a metaverse.
• Andrew's take on Cultos and web3 in forthcoming years.
• How web3 helps take brand loyalty programs to another level.
• Andrew's journey as an entrepreneur.
• Currently trending demands of web3 users.
• Cultos' integration roadmap for brands.
• Future opportunities with Sports at Cultos.
• Other industries that can leverage web3 loyalty programs.

🔗 Guest Links:

• Be sure to connect with Andrew on LinkedIn, as well as follow on Twitter to engage with him. 
• Check out Cultos to learn more about them and get early access to the Cultos coin!

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🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with our brilliant guest - Grant Powell. Grant Powell is the Founder of Curios, professional numismatist, and an ex-Googler. 

An expert in developing some of the most innovative technologies and digital products, some of Grant's highlights include the first-ever live streaming platform for YouTube (for concerts such as U2, Alicia Keys, Coachella) and the first-ever application to integrate with Spotify's web API for matching people based on their similar tastes in music. Grant is knowledgeable in a wide range of programming languages as well as being an expert in design and artistic direction.

🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

• How Curios is breaking barriers to bridge Web2 & Web3!
• Flipping the switch of Web3 being technological first and user experience second.
• How far are we from mass adoption for web3?! (hint: very close!)
• Forward looking applications of NFTs besides Digital Art.
• One of the overlooked pain-points in onboarding new users to Web3.
• Importance of vernacular in mass adoption of web3
• How Curios prioritizes products/features in their pipeline.
• Evolution of needed tools for web3 usability.
• Case Study: Curios powers Tory Lanez to sell his music directly to his customers with zero friction
• Grant's golden advice to budding Web3 founders!

🔗 Guest Links:

• Be sure to connect with Grant on LinkedIn, as well as on Twitter. 
• Check out how Curios is making waves in web3!

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👶🏼 ⚠️ You may hear some cute baby sounds in this episode.

🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with our brilliant guest - Johannes Castner. Johannes is a data scientist, data engineer and AI practitioner with expertise in modern (scalable) deep learning, data pipelines, knowledge graphs and reasoning systems. 

He has a broad background in Anthropology, Economics and Computational Social Science and I'm keen to apply my skills to societally relevant problems.

🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

• Johannes' fascinating origin story.
• Artificial Intelligence OR Augmented Intelligence.
• Advancements and potential applications of AI and Machine Learning.
• Potential of AI/ML to influence blockchain technology.
• Cross sections of AI and web3.
• Can AI be decentralized? (hint: decentralize the data!)
• Johannes' exclusive AI learning course.

🔗 Guest Links:

• Be sure to connect with Johannes on LinkedIn and check out his website: JohannesCastner.com to learn about his amazing work!

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🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with our brilliant guest - Samy Fodil. Samy is a serial tech entrepreneur, CEO and founder of Taubyte. He started coding when he was 10, fostering his love for computers and software since!

Samy holds an engineering degree in computer science and a PhD in computer systems and networks. Samy founded Taubyte to reinvent the Cloud into an enabler of true distributed web.

Taubyte is an 'uber service' for software at the Edge. Through their Smart Computing Platform, they provide abstractions (the drivers) and on-demand computing resources (the cars) allocation, eliminating infrastructure investment and considerably reducing cost of ownership.

🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

• What web3 is and what it isn't?
• What is true decentralization?
• Decentralization from 3 distinct perspectives.
• How to position web3 in the sea of uncertainty.
• What is Taubyte & How is it making waves in web3?
• Achieving true decentralization.
• Samy's origin story.
• What people miss when looking at web3 during turmoil.
• On the bright future of web3

🔗 Guest Links:

• Be sure to follow Samy on LinkedIn!
• Be sure to check out Taubyte to learn more!

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