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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where CryptoPunks comes up on My First Million, the Startup Ideas Podcast, 20VC, Capital Allocators, the a16z Podcast
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 1:03:12 Micky Malka People see CryptoPunks
Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 31:43 unnamed speaker But what shocks a Jaws here, CryptoPunk, the most is the founder.
AI Isn’t Covid, FBI probes Tai Lopez, Mistral’s $2B Sweden bet | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:29 Jordi Hays So it was before the crazy NFT boom had really started, but CryptoPunks were popular and we made a collection of like 400 NFTs of various VCs.
Is AI’s COVID Moment Really Here?
- ▶ 19:24 unnamed speaker This was during, you know, kind of, this was, I think, like May or June of twenty-twenty-one, so it was before the crazy NFT boom had really started, but CryptoPunks were popular, and, uh, we made a collection of, like, 400 NFTs of, uh,…
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 55:25 Alessio Fanelli So you always have a CryptoPunk as your Twitter PFP. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- ▶ 1:25:12 Jordi Hays Like we did something back in the day with party around where we did, it was called helpful VCs where we made crypto punks for every VC.
Gabe Whaley on Why MSCHF Makes Virality an Art Form
- ▶ 16:36 Jordi Hays Like, we, we did something back in the day with Party Round where we did, it was called Helpful VCs, where we made CryptoPunks for every VC, and then we put them on a website, and we said, you have four hours to retweet these, otherwise…
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 36:48 unnamed speaker Like haven't the original crypto punks, crypto punks, those have kind of held their value, but the board apes have sold off like crazy, but are still expensive.
The END of LUXURY GOODS? (Trump’s Tariffs)
- ▶ 1:46 Jordi Hays You know, crypto punk style, uh, you know, NFTs, and we list, we put them online, and we said, any VC that reposts this in the next four hours gets theirs for free. 2 times in the scene
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 2:28:43 John Coogan It's like, yeah, it's expensive, but it's no, uh, it's no, uh, crypto punk.
Dylan Field live at Figma's Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design
- ▶ 36:01 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, I saw you tweeting about CryptoPunks way before they were worth millions of dollars. 3 times in the scene
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 39:18 Chris Dixon There's these avatars like Bored Apes and CryptoPunks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:02 Chris Dixon In many cases, you're buying the IP rights to the artwork and the creative aspects, which is the case with Bored Apes and CryptoPunks.
Nick Tomaino: The Future of NFTs, What Will Happen with FTX & Who Should be Held to Account | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:11 Nick Tomaino And so my, my favorite consumer brand, which again, this is a PFP project that you might not think of as, as a brand, but CryptoPunks, right? 6 times in the scene
BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers
- ▶ 1:34:10 Shaan Puri I went to your Twitter feed, and I saw your tweets from back in the day that were like, CryptoPunks, cool. 2 times in the scene
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:24 Harry Stebbings We look at NFTs today, largely the dominant use cases around social capital of having a crypto punk, you name whatever, chain runner, whatever we want to have.
HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
- ▶ 19:09 Wylie Aronow And it was, you know, they were basically pioneers, along with Matt and John over at Larva Labs, who created CryptoPunks. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:37 Guy Raz Okay, so you guys were looking at things like CryptoKitties, CryptoPunks, and Hashmasks.
- ▶ 43:26 Greg Solano Opposite that, you know, Matt and John, the creators of CryptoPunks, their monetization strategy, if they even thought that far, was around, hey, well, let's hold a bunch of punks ourselves, and if these are worth money later, we'll sell… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:40 Wylie Aronow I mean, you know, we immediately started thinking, well, that was another, uh, Guy Osiris moment when he came to us and sort of led the charge on our first major acquisition, which was, uh, CryptoPunks and MeBits from Matt and John over at…
A Top Computer Scientist Got Drained in Seconds From a Discord Link
- ▶ 4:51 Jason Rosenstein Crypto punks and rare pepes, you know, from, from 2016, 2017 for the punks. 2 times in the scene
Winning at Startups and the Future of Culture
- ▶ 1:06:12 Tom McLeod Yeah, I think it's also really critical on our side specifically because a lot of the folks that are joining archive, you know, it's not like it's, we, you know, they made a bunch of money flipping crypto punks.
Diogo Monica – Securing Crypto at Anchorage Digital (EP.259, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.06)
- ▶ 47:40 Diogo Monica The Visa came to us and said, hey, Anchorage, we want you to help us buying a CryptoPunk. 2 times in the scene
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 22:43 Stephen McKeon There were certain NFTs like CryptoPunks, which were getting into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we thought individually, I maybe can't spend that much, but if we pool capital among a bunch of us, maybe we could go out and get…
Why You Should Start a Business For Older Adults
- ▶ 3:55 Greg Isenberg I know people who have a bunch of apes and a bunch of punks and who've sold, who basically set up individual wallets and who are not paying taxes on it.
The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
- ▶ 4:08 Greg Isenberg So Yugo Labs being the board API club's creators, um, acquired the IP of CryptoPunks and MiBits, which are under the Larva Labs umbrella.
- ▶ 15:13 Greg Isenberg CryptoPunks, which was a Larva Labs product, didn't have that. 4 times in the scene
How to Engineer Serendipity | Matt Mullenweg, Automattic
- ▶ 8:50 Sahil Bloom And like people had donated, someone donated a CryptoPunk.
3 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022
- ▶ 38:27 Shaan Puri He bought, you know, he bought a punk.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 44:45 Josh Wolfe And once I came up with that analogy, and I've pushed on a lot of people to see if there's weakness in it, I realized that that fundamental technology, forgetting about the speculative assets that are on top of it of Bored Ape Yacht Clubs…
The Wolf of All Streets, Scott Melker | Where It Happens
- ▶ 48:46 Scott Melker I don't have enough time or under even comprehension to get into punks and apes and other JPEGs and cartoons.
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?!
- ▶ 18:35 Devin Finzer So people will collect a CryptoPunk, which is this sort of antique NFT, and set it as their profile picture.
- ▶ 27:35 Devin Finzer Now what we're seeing with Bored Ape Yacht Club, which is another NFT project that's similar to CryptoPunks, and that there's only 10,000 of these kind of rare apes, right, is that traditional brands are starting to build interesting…
- ▶ 28:31 Devin Finzer I have a cool cat, which is sort of in the territory of like these collect more collectible, like crypto punk type things. 3 times in the scene
NFTs with Gary Vaynerchuk | Where It Happens
- ▶ 4:20 Gary Vaynerchuk And really just seeing NBA Top Shot and CryptoPunks happen and did my 30, 40 hours of homework on the current state of NFTs, not what I knew about CryptoKitties in 2017.
- ▶ 8:45 Gary Vaynerchuk When I look at, you know, even the icons like Bored Ape and CryptoPunks, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:43 Gary Vaynerchuk The reason I went into NFTs more than currency is my theory is if Ethereum loses, I can bridge over my crypto punks, right?
- ▶ 14:08 Gary Vaynerchuk Comment on my social, cold email because of where I am in my career, or to your point, no question, Kevin Rose, one of the smarter consumer internet people I know, when we were talking about X-Men comics and Jordan rookie cards, when he…
The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
- ▶ 41:08 Alexis Ohanian Once, you know, I bought a bunch of CryptoPunks that looked like my wife is a nice investment, but then around April, May, whenever the apes started, when I bought in, 2 times in the scene
Unbundling Disney, Why CNN is Just Like the WWE, YouTube Creator Camps, and More
- ▶ 1:54 Shaan Puri They own like tons of punks and Bored Apes and whatever, and it's supposed to be Snoop Dogg. 2 times in the scene
How to Have an Early Adopter Mindset, ConstitutionDAO, Optimizing Twitter Bios, and More
- ▶ 9:02 Shaan Puri So they bought, uh, the people are creating DAOs to buy crypto punks. 5 times in the scene
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 27:51 Benedict Evans And so, you know, if you look at the numbers, you know, there are only 10,000 CryptoPunks, and there are, as it might be, three or 4000 wallets that own one. 2 times in the scene
Disruptive Innovation & Unbundling The S&P 500 With Howard Lindzon | Where It Happens
- ▶ 53:58 Howard Lindzon I want to, but I'd rather go buy a CryptoPunk, a piece of a CryptoPunk on Rally World, where at least I feel I own it and the SEC approved it.
Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates | My First Million #218
- ▶ 44:24 Shaan Puri You can either go try to find the gold, meaning go find the best NFT and oh, you bought a crypto punk and now it's worth seven million dollars.
- ▶ 50:31 Shaan Puri Um, and so, so anyways, I was just like, who's to say that today you guys are spending millions of dollars on CryptoPunks and millions of dollars on this Bored Ape Yacht Club. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:09 Shaan Puri He owns some crypto punks and he's like, kind of smart.
Why Direct-to-Consumer Companies Are Awesome to Own | My First Million #217
- ▶ 38:33 Shaan Puri And so, instead of it being like a, uh, you know, a CryptoPunk, which is like a little eight-bit character, or
The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash | My First Million #211 with Julian Shapiro
- ▶ 23:09 Shaan Puri Crypto punks are an NFT, and if you go buy it, cool, you bought this digital file, it sits in your digital wallet privately, and there's no, you know, it's, it's even worse displayed than art because you're not putting it in a frame in… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:50 Shaan Puri Uh, you know, go buy a bunch of CryptoPunks, or I'm gonna put it all in on this penny stock,
Ethereum 101 & How It Could Top Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 19:16 Alex Lieberman And so if you want to know what's happening in the world of NFTs, if you're interested in digital art or creating scarcity through Ethereum to make digital art valuable, you should check out Beeple, who sold an NFT for more than sixty-nine… 2 times in the scene
NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)
- ▶ 10:45 Devin Finzer So for example, in one of these virtual worlds called CryptoVoxels, um, a big thing that people are making are museums of CryptoPunks, which CryptoPunks, for those of you who aren't familiar, is kind of one of those most famous, uh, 3 times in the scene
Social Tokens for Creators Explained
- ▶ 14:46 Chris Dixon This is why crypto punks is so strong.
The Future of NFTs
- ▶ 1:42 Chris Dixon So maybe you take your crypto punk into a game or you take, you know, a piece of art into, uh, into the central land, or you do.
- ▶ 10:40 Chris Dixon I mean, all these other, like, imagine there's, you know, a crypto punk Senate hearing, you know, like the crypto punk, the 10,000 get together and they have a, you know, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
MFM #165: How Jack Butcher is Selling his Art for $76m & How to Research Wealthy People
- ▶ 9:26 Shaan Puri Um, there's been CryptoPunks now, the, the, the number one CryptoPunk sold for, oh, Brady, you look this up. 3 times in the scene