CryptoKitties
product on 11 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes · said 102 times in 32 episodes since 2018
the a16z Podcast 38 
20VC 19 
My First Million 12 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 8 
How I Built This 8 
the MAD Podcast 6 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 5 
We Live to Build 2 
Capital Allocators 2 
American Optimist 1 
the Green Blueprint 1
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the a16z Podcast 3820VC 19My First Million 12How I Built This 8the Startup Ideas Podcast 8the MAD Podcast 6the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 5Capital Allocators 23 more shows
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 21 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
- From Community Manager to C-Suite | Jiho, Axie Infinity
- NFTs with Gary Vaynerchuk | Where It Happens
- 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How bitcoin is keeping zombie power plants alive
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 32 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
- NBA Top Shot and the Flow Blockchain
- NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)
- Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates | My First Million #218
- The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why.
- Why Credit Cards Took 35 Years — And Crypto Won't
- a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Decentralized Applications: What's Now, What's Next
- a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- 20VC: Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on How VC Forces Certain Companies To Exist and Makes It Difficult To Finance Others, Why Cities Won't Let Scooter Companies Be Profitable and Why Dapps Are A Concern and Where Emphasis Should Be Placed In Crypto
- a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 31 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- Crypto, the Future of Trust
- Fireside Chat: Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- 20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins
- An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
- Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
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9 statements about CryptoKitties, every show
Aronow: CryptoKitties' breeding model felt dilutive, not like a true collectible
“The model just felt a little dilutive. It didn't feel like a true collectible.”
Shirley: CryptoKitties broke Ethereum at just 10,000 daily active users
“CryptoKitties broke Ethereum with sort of, You know, 10,000 ish users per day. And you can't build a consumer company at that scale. It's simply untenable.”
Simpson: CryptoKitties was the first digital collectible game in mainstream
“CryptoKitties was the first kind of digital collectible game that really moved the category into the mainstream.”
Yahya: CryptoKitties introduced true digital ownership for the first time
“CryptoKitties is one where, where people became very invested in owning this digital collectible which is, this is something that is fundamentally new. Never before would you be able to directly own something that's digital. This is the first time that that's …”
Yahya: Ethereum asset ownership persists even if the creator company dies
“No matter what happens, even if the company that built CryptoKitties were to go away, this kitty is still mine. My ownership of it is burned into the Ethereum blockchain.”
Xie: CryptoKitties consumed 13% of Ethereum transaction fees at 2017 peak
“At the end of last year, to the point where it was accounting for 13% of the transaction fees on Ethereum, and it actually ended up slowing down Ethereum because it was so popular.”
Goldberg: CryptoKitties Single-Handedly Clogged the Ethereum Blockchain
“CryptoKitties alone clogged up the Ethereum blockchain.”
Linda Xie: CryptoKitties drove Ethereum transaction spike in late 2017
“There was a huge spike at the end of 2017, early 2018 with the onset Of a decentralized application called CryptoKitties.”
Blockchain games suffer from VR-like hype without mainstream consumer traction
“I think that blockchain games are kind of a little bit currently suffering from the VR type world. There's a lot of heat. There's a lot of you know, excitement around it, and you can make some great cash like CryptoKitties, but I think They only drove like a 1…”