Scott M. Lawin is a Co-Founder & CEO of Candy Digital, Inc., a next-generation sports and culture digital asset platform, providing authentic objects and experiences that deepen fan engagement and connect people to their passions. Candy Digital is an official digital collectible partner of Getty Images, Major League Baseball, Netflix, the Race Team Alliance, and the WWE. Candy operates digital collectible ecosystems where fans and collectors are able to purchase, trade, and share authentic digital collectibles to deepen their love of the sports, media and culture.

Before launching Candy, Scott founded Parametric, LP, a private investment and advisory firm focused on early-stage opportunities in blockchain, fintech, art, and real estate. From 2010-2017, Mr. Lawin was the Chief Operating Officer of Moore Capital Management, a $15bn global alternative investment management company. Prior to joining Moore, Mr. Lawin served as Chief Operating Officer of the Liquid Markets business at Fortress Investment Group following a 12-year career at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

In this podcast, we cover:

• Scott’s jump from a storied career in finance to NFTs
• Pandemic conversations with Mike Novogratz that led to Candy Digital
• The difference in the change of pace between finance & Web3
• Why the market slowdown hasn’t affected Candy’s pitch to potential partners
• Mapping out fan experiences that are relevant for each community 
• Breaking down the paths that brands & IP owners can take when licensing off their IP
• A dive into Candy Digital’s recent fundraise and Fanatic’s divestment from the business

To follow Candy Digital on Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/CandyDigital

Matias Dorta, is the CEO & Co-Founder of AssetDash. What initially launched as a product to track all stocks, cryptos, NFTs, DeFi, and private equity investments in real-time has continued growing with the release of new products to incentivize users further to participate with the platform.

Most recently, they launched DashDeals. DashDeals applies the concept of ‘AMEX Rewards’ to the ownership of digital assets. With DashDeals, investors can unlock hundreds of deals based on assets that they own, and brands easily get their products in front of the Web3 community.

In this podcast, we cover:

• Launching an investment tracker for crypto and non-crypto based assets
• The opportunity for building a product that targets both Web2 and Web 3 consumers
• The introduction of Dash Deals, where you can ​​earn rewards based on your investments
• Next up for AssetDash - their ‘Learn’ product 
• The idea of blockchain-based loyalty programs without brands/merchants having to be ‘on-chain’

To follow Matias on Twitter head to: https://twitter.com/mattdorta

To follow AssetDash on Twitter head to: https://twitter.com/assetdash

Shannon Snow is the Chief Operating Officer of World of Women, one of the world’s leading NFT brands with over $400M in trading volume. Prior to joining World of Women, Shannon led the Entertainment division at Meta, helping entertainment, media and sports companies move into the metaverse. She spent over a decade at Google building and leading teams. She angel invests in female and diverse founders with the goal of empowering the next generation of tech leaders.

Since WoW launched in July 2021, their team has built a roster of celebrity holders (Reese Witherspoon, Madonna, Eva Longoria), brand partnerships (Hasbro, House of Harlow, Billboard Magazine), entertainment partnerships (Guy Oseary, Hello Sunshine) and a community passionate about WoW’s mission to build an inclusive Web3.

In this podcast we cover:

• Having the conviction to leap from working at Meta & Google to a startup
• How Shannon views the responsibilities of a Chief Operating Officer
• The importance of building an inclusive future
• How to align internal resources across an array of business opportunities
• The playbook to bring World of Women to a global audience
• The healthy pressure of managing holder’s expectations 
• The decision to not receive venture capital funding (yet…?)
• Where the internal team’s attention shifted since the bear market
• The wonderful philanthropic efforts of World of Women!

To follow Shannon on Twitter head to: https://twitter.com/shannonsnow_sf

To follow World of Women on Twitter head to: https://twitter.com/worldofwomennft

Gary Vaynerchuck, aka, Gary Vee is a serial entrepreneur, CEO of VeeFriends, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia & 5X NYT Bestselling author.

He has been a leading voice of Web3 technology, with a goal of getting its capabilities into the hands of billions of people across the world.

While I've known Gary for a few years, getting him on the podcast to share his POV on the industry was an honor.

On this podcast we cover:

• Gary's take on the current industry sentiment and how to reverse it
• How to continue onboarding new people into the industry
• Advice Gary gives to brands to get into NFTs (that was different from 12 months ago)
• The idea of using blockchain tech for brands to build out first party data
• The different ways a brand can structure their teams to win in Web3
• Taking his gut intuition to drive the future growth of VeeFriends

To follow Gary on Twitter, head to https://twitter.com/garyvee

Cofounder and COO of Zora. Prior to Zora, Dee worked at Coinbase launching brand partnerships and influencer marketing programs, including the first brand partnership between Coinbase and the NBA

Zora's mission is to make it easy for anyone - artists, creators, writers, developers - to bring their creativity onchain. Zora has built many easy-to-use tools (like Editions, Drops, the Zora API, Nouns Builder) to allow anyone to not just buy and sell NFTs, but launch entire NFT collections, independent marketplaces, and branded experiences. Zora has helped artists earn millions of dollars from their memes, music, photography and art using NFTs at the core - some exam[ples include Vic Mensa, RAC, Disclosure, Toro y Moi, Mick Jenkins, Pussyriot, Andy Warhol Foundation, the first TikTok NFT, and James Jean. 

In today's podcast, we cover:

• The deep toolkit of on-chain infrastructure that Zora offers
• The making of the strong design approach of Zora’s brand
• Building the right tools for their target audience (hint: it’s a wide range of creators)
• Where Dee’s interest in DAO’s comes from, and his POV of how they can be more effective than a traditional LLC/Corporation
• Hesitations Dee sees people having before feeling comfortable enough to start a DAO
• The idea of using NFTs to drive profitable marketing initiatives

To follow Dee on Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/dg_goens

To Follow ZORA on Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/ourZORA

Dr. Giovanna is a Senior XR and Metaverse Producer at Decentraland Foundation and Head of Metaverse Fashion Week. She has more than a decade of experience in digital design and the XR industry. Dr. Giovanna led the production of MVFW22, which hosted more than 70 global fashion houses, designers and artists and was one of the platform's most successful virtual events to date.

In this podcast, we cover:

• How her experience with connected worlds and getting her PHD prepared her for decentralization 
• The ideation that the metaverse is a work in progress
• The power of bringing 70 brands together for Metaverse Fashion Week 2022, which included over 7 billion impressions on the event
• How fashion and the metaverse complement each other 
• The trend of fashion houses seeing the metaverse as a marketing tool versus integrating it into their larger brand strategy 
• Bringing the metaverse into physical channels
• How a brand can immerse itself into the metaverse for the first time 
• Brand’s appetites for metaverse activations over IRL now that the world is opening up from the pandemic

To follow Gigi on Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/ggcasimiro_

To follow Decentraland on Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/decentraland

Amanda is the Culture and Community Lead at PROOF. After 10 years in a public sector communications career, she left to pursue her passion – community building. She now has the privilege of working with the best community in web3, PROOF, working on developing its culture and putting community-led initiatives into action. Amanda is also the Co-Founder of The Token Club, a community set out to empower marginalized communities to participate and succeed in Web3 through alpha and networking.

In this podcast, we cover:

• How Amanda's background in communications and emergency management helped her transition into her current role
• What the word community means to Amanda
• How the PROOF community continues to evolve
• How effectively managing a community has changed since Amanda took her role at PROOF
• How to stay ahead of community needs, while also being flexible and adaptable

To follow Amanda on Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/akastevey_

To follow PROOF on Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/proof_xyz

Tara Fung is a Co-Founder & CEO of Co:Create.

Co:Create’s mission is to help Web3 projects scale beyond the drop by allowing businesses to create, manage and monitor native tokens using configurable smart contracts and an easy-to-use dashboard.  In addition to providing the tools and infrastructure for Web3 brands to issue native tokens, Co:Create aims to manage and engage communities through decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) while incentivizing the growth of dApp ecosystems around their collections.

Co:Create recently announced a $25 million seed round, led by Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from VaynerFund, Packy McCormick’s Not Boring Capital, FTX’s head of ventures and gaming Amy Wu, RTFKT and fractional.art.

In this episode, we cover:

• Managing token policies - from designing to launching and then managing tokens post-launch
• Web3-based rewards programs
• Finding product market fit amongst Web2 & Web3 based companies
• The core differences between fungible tokens and non-fungible tokens 
• What’s keeping Tara motivated
• The current inflection point within the world of PFP collections

To follow Tara Fung on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/nonfungibletara

To follow Co:Create on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/usecocreate