Greg Solano

1 appearance on the record.

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Assertion Supported
Solano: Bored Ape Yacht Club granted full commercial rights to token holders
“And so, and the other aspect that we baked in here was the idea that if you owned a Bored Ape and could prove that on the smart contract level, you had it in your Ethereum wallet, then you also had, by virtue of the terms, a full license to the commercial righ…”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 35:29 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

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Insight
Solano: Granting users commercial IP ownership unlocks Disney-level affinity faster
“And I think what we found is that when you do that, you're really empowering creators and the hive mind and the network effects and all of the benefits that you get from that are so much more powerful. Like you get to Disney levels of empathy and belovedness f…”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 46:31 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
Opinion
Solano: Gaming Is Most Ripe for Web3 Disruption via Asset Ownership
“Really I think the vertical that we're most bullish in and that we think is most ripe for disruption is in the games industry, like we're talking about, where there's already single companies that are doing billions in digital assets that you know, are essenti…”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 1:03:42 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
Assertion Supported
Solano: Bored Ape Yacht Club granted full commercial rights to token holders
“And so, and the other aspect that we baked in here was the idea that if you owned a Bored Ape and could prove that on the smart contract level, you had it in your Ethereum wallet, then you also had, by virtue of the terms, a full license to the commercial righ…”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 35:29 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Solano: Yuga Labs spent approximately $30,000 to launch Bored Ape Yacht Club
“And so I think at the end of the day, it was some, somewhere around like 30,000 dollars is what we ended up spending to do this.”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 33:46 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
Disclosure
Solano: Yuga Labs founders own only one Ape each and will never sell
“Wiley and I were like, no, we've only ever owned one ape. We didn't even choose our apes, you know, and frankly, obviously we're never going to sell them.”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 43:51 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
Disclosure
Solano: Yuga Labs collects a 2.5% royalty on OpenSea secondary trades
“So we do actually collect a two and a half percent royalty on, on the BUIC collection on OpenSea.”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 45:07 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
Assertion Supported
Solano: Tokenproof Pivoted From COVID Vaccine Verification to NFT Ticketing
“And so an enterprising startup that had been working on a actually it was a COVID vaccine app, you know, for verifying that you had a your vaccine card pivoted to being an NFT authenticator for an event like this. It's brilliant. Loved it. They're called token…”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 1:04:48 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
Disclosure
Solano: Entered crypto in 2017 with a $1,000 investment
“A thousand dollars was, I think, what I put into the markets in 2017, which was like, you know, half my paycheck, so it was a pretty big deal.”
Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 13:51 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow Sep 1, 2022 26m
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