The WLD Show

Teddy Zee is the cofounder of MintNFT. MintNFT is the first NFT collaboration platform that empowers and protects brands, artists and communities. MintNFT recently launched the Balmain x Barbie high fashion NFT auction. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Teddy built a storied career as one of the first Asian American executives in Hollywood. Teddy was the Executive Vice President of Pr...

Sean Reed is a former professional poker player who got into Bitcoin and crypto in 2011, after online poker was banned in the U.S. He helped start OpenNode, a Bitcoin Payment Processor that allows companies like Shopify, Substack, and McDonalds accept Bitcoin payments. We talk about the different waves crypto has experienced and why he’s such a big fan of transparency, autonomy, and Bitcoin. In th...

In this episode we bring back friends of the podcast, Howie Zhang and David Duong, to discuss Web3 gaming. Howie Zhang is a former quant and game economy designer for Immutable X’s Guild of Guardians. David Duong runs monetization for Apex Legends and has generated the game $1.6B by selling digital goods. Guild of Guardians, a free-to-play mobile RPG, is one of the most highly anticipated Web3 gam...

Chloe Park is a Web3 Designer at Coinbase and VectorDAO. While exploring starting a podcast for VectorDAO, Chloe ran into a few challenges. So she reached out to us to learn more about starting one.  We decided to bring her on the podcast as the host. And have her interview Will, Lee, and Andrew about the journey and thought process behind building the podcast. If you liked this episode, you can f...

Music NFTs are the next frontier of Web3. A 19 year-old just created Art Blocks for musicians: Benny Conn is the founder of Beat Foundry. Beat Foundry is a generative music NFT that actually sounds good. All song data is forever stored on-chain in MIDI format so anyone can freely interpret and remix it in their own way. We discuss Benny’s story and how Beat Foundry works. Learn more about Benny an...

We bring a friend of the podcast, Steve Wu, on to talk about his new Web3 Journey. Steve is a product manager at Gusto, a payroll and HR software. He previously was a product manager at Scopely, a mobile gaming company, and an investment banker. We talk about the intersection of Web3 (DAOs, Gaming, DeFi) and how it relates to his career. Moxie Marlinspike (Signal Founder) - My first impressions of...

Emerson Hsieh is the co-creator of CritterzNFT. CritterzNFT is the first fully on-chain NFT to enable play-to-earn on Minecraft. In this episode, we cover how CritterzNFT enables play-to-earn gaming and Emerson’s inspiration for starting the project. Learn more about Emerson and CritterzNFT Emerson’s Twitter: @intemerson Emerson’s Website: https://www.emersonhsieh.com CritterzNFT Website: www.crit...

Peter Yang is founder of OdysseyDAO. A learning DAO for creating high-quality, 100% free Web3 education. They are a 4,000 member community of product managers, designers, engineers, and other builders passionate about Web3. Creating quality "explain like I'm five" Web3 learning material. Peter is also the author of the best-selling book, Principles of Product Management. And runs a newsletter, Cre...

We bring back a friend of the podcast, David Duong, on to talk about his Web3 Journey. David runs monetization for Apex Legends and his team has made the game over $1.6 billion dollars selling in-game digital goods. David's been learning about Web3 and NFTs through our podcast and shares his insights with us. If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show !

Marcel has been an engineer for 7 years and is the creator web3pad.xyz, where he explains the unique aspects of NFT contracts such as Loot, Chain Runners, AlphaGirl Club, the Adidas Originals Drop, and ConstitutionDAO. We discuss contract constructs, special attributes, respected builders, contract evolution and how Marcel launched two NFT’s: Mycoverse.xyz’s mushroom NFT’s and his own Retro1990 NF...

Jon Yan is the founder of VectorDAO, a collective of designers on a mission to improve how designers are employed and to make web3 more accessible. He was previously a designer at Coinbase and a YC founder. We discuss DAO’s, growing DAO’s via minimum viable governance, the history of work in America, VectorDAO’s new employment model & its impact on workers, how liquid super teams could change work...

Tae Oh is the Founder and CEO of Gluwa. Gluwa is a borderless financial platform with 2 million global users. Gluwa got its start enabling people without bank accounts to make easy international purchases. Tae created Gluwa Capital to provide venture loans to microfinancers and lenders in developing countries. Tae also built CreditCoin to help people in developing countries without credit historie...

Kevin Lin is a crypto and DeFi enthusiast. We chat about magic internet money, yield farming, "degen" strategies, and the research and mechanics to get onto a protocol. Not investment advice! Kevin found yield farming in March of 2021 and has been hooked since then. We discuss his first investment, getting rug pulled, base yield farming concepts, researching new protocols, create a check list of h...

Aaron Barr is the founder of Atrbute, a creative management agency. Atrbute represents many famous artists and studios such as Shepard Fairey’s (OBEY & Obama’s “hope” poster) Number One Studio, photographer Pari Dukovic (Time cover: Prince Harry & Meghan), and Tristan Eaton (Kid Robot & many famous murals). We discuss his career, how he’s transitioning artists into NFT’s, how he helps artists part...

Mike Wen is the founder and CEO of Gallery . Hundreds of the largest NFT collectors use Gallery to curate and display their NFTs. Mike’s first NFT was a piece by Beeple , and when it netted him 100x profit, he became obsessed with collecting more NFT’s. When he couldn’t find a good way to curate & display his collection, he taught himself to code and created Gallery. Investors took notice and Gall...

Rick Porter is the CEO and Founder of DSCVR. DSCVR’s mission is to create a decentralized social content aggregation platform where users not only control the content, but also the platform itself. Think Reddit, if Reddit’s development was run by its most dedicated community members. Prior to DSCVR worked at Google and Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures, where he built blockchain projects fo...

We welcome the all women founding team: Nyx, Xuannü, Aletheia, Aradia, and Keridwen behind Crypto Coven to the show! Crypto Coven is a unique set of witch NFT’s which will give holders access to an immersive, narrative-driven digital-world. We discuss the origin of CryptoCoven and geek on how every aspect of the project, from witch silhouettes to colors to astrological signs, and the minting proce...

Katherine Liu is a designer and illustrator building in Web3. She is a co-creator of the Mycoverse, a collection of 3,333 mushroom-inspired NFTs on the Solana blockchain.  The Mycoverse's mission is to onboard the next 1 million artists into web3. She is also the co-creator Nifty Generator, a simple, no-code way to generate NFT collections for Solana or Ethereum. She has been a designer at Instagr...

Peter Ng graduated from UCLA in Design Media Arts, helped shape the early mobile experience at Google, completely redesigned the mobile app for Uber, and has now landed at Spatial where he heads the design team. Wired: Spatial: The Airbnb for NFTs The spatial virtual reality experience Hardware Oculus Rift - https://www.oculus.com/rift https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens Magic Leap - https://...

Chris Teng Balmaseda is a Venture Partner at Infinio Capital - as an Early Stage SpaceTech Investor - with the goal of sending the first Taiwanese astronaut into space.  Chris is very involved in nonprofits, including his roles as: President-elect of the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce. Board member of the Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles. Board member of the Taiwan United Fund Board m...

Li Ouyang is a mother, salsa dancer, former VP at Chase, and engineer at Coinbase. You can learn more about her from episode #15 of the show. In this show we discuss: Li's favorite new NFT! Crypto Coven https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/546 https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/547 https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/548 How to get involved with NFT communities and participate in first mints How N...

Howie Zhang is the Game Economy Designer for Guild of Guardians, a mobile RPG built on Immutable X - The first Layer 2 for NFTs on Ethereum. Prior to that, Howie worked at Chi X, an Australian Stock Exchange. First, as PHD Research Analyst on Pricing Mechanics and Governance. Then, as a Quant in Market Microstructure, Analytics, Strategy. In this episode we discuss: Being a game economy designer o...

Shalin is the design manager for Coinbase Wallet. Early in her career, she worked on search at Google. Prior to Coinbase, she worked on Augmented Reality at Facebook. To prepare for her new role at Coinbase, she deep-dived into Web3 and found a playground for creative builders that are working together to shape an optimistic future. In this episode we discuss: ENS (Ethereum Name Service) ( https:/...

Jay Chang is the co-Founder of Genopets. The first Move-To-Earn NFT Game on Solana. It started out as a side project that gained a ton of traction and an engaged community. Based on the traction they raised $8MM. Prior to Genopets, Jay was a Product Marketing Manager at Google, working on Flutter. Jay started working in the crypto industry as a Product Marketer for Block. One, the organization beh...

Will, Lee, and Andrew talk about the crypto series, the show's slack community growing, if Will is going to buy a Bored Ape, starting a fashion series, Andrew's job, VC investing, Cowboy Bebop, how fashion is a microcosm of humanity, and social engineering. If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show !