Q So Gary, you've been consistently right at predicting, you know, where things are, you know, are going. And now, you know, we've been following V friends since the beginning. We love the project so much. Um, what got you into NFT communities in this whole web three world?
A Um, basically An incredible combination of my entire life, right? Like I'm in my office. Obviously I put out a lot of content. So people have seen this, like I've been collecting things my whole life, right? Sports cards. It's just who I am. Um, wine collecting. And I've been, you know, at the forefront of consumer trends. And so there's videos of me in 2010 talking about virtual currency and Farmville and You know, um, just a, a brouhaha of events, um, culminating with the explosion of sports cards again, which kept me even closer to collectibles, COVID allowing for a lot of interesting behaviors to pop up, natural things that were happening like Roblox and Fortnite and NBA, and Madden skins. And I've just been watching the digital thing, being an early investor in Ethereum, 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. And basically did what I do all the time, whether that was Snapchat or TikTok or Musical.ly or podcasting or to your point, I'm very fortunate at this point to have a reputation of being solid at having a sense of what's happening. And that's what happened to me. I thought NFTs were going to happen and they've happened. And the way I've looked that learned my whole career is by doing. And so I knew I had to have my own project. I've been w…
AI assessment note: “basically An incredible combination of my entire life, right?”