3 - Mack Flavelle | Overpriced JPEGs
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🗓️ 27 November 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Mack Flavelle is the Co-Founder of CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs, and Big Head Club. CryptoKitties was instrumental in establishing the ERC-721 standard, which is the base for the vast majority of NFTs. Mack helped launch NBA Top Shot and StonerCats, and that just begins to cover his impact in the space.
Needless to say, Mack has had a prolific career and pioneered many innovations for NFTs. His creativity and boundless energy powers this conversation about the history of culture on the blockchain, and a discussion of his more recent and upcoming projects leads to bold predictions about the future.
Mack is a fascinating character, and we wouldn't expect anything less from one of the founding fathers of the NFT movement.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
3:30 Mack Flavelle and Cats
10:12 CryptoKitties and ERC 721
13:56 Inflection Points
19:14 Pink Cat Villain
22:59 Innovations & Explosions
28:01 The Price of Kitties
36:10 New Major IP
42:30 Ronin & Death Poems
50:59 Big Head Club
56:32 Lessons from StonerCats
1:01:54 Ghostbusters Etc
1:04:05 The Big Questions
1:11:27 Closing
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Resources:
Big Head Club
https://www.bighead.club/
Japanese Death Poems
https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Death-Poems-Written-Monks/dp/0804831793
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| 0:00.0 | How well everyone, welcome to another episode of Overpriced JPEGs, I am Carly Riley. |
| 0:12.7 | On today's show, I have Mac Flaville, who I'm so excited to have brought onto this podcast |
| 0:18.2 | because Mac is very fun. |
| 0:21.2 | He actually was the person who came up with the idea for cryptokitties, which is the |
| 0:26.1 | very first NFT projects, and in fact was the project that gave way to the ERC 721 standard |
| 0:32.8 | that all NFTs today, for the most part, conformed to. |
| 0:36.6 | So we talk a lot about the history and what it was like back in the early days, why cryptokitties |
| 0:41.8 | was able to be so successful. |
| 0:44.1 | We also talk about his latest projects. |
| 0:46.0 | He's now the CEO and founder of Big Head Club, which is the company you might know for having |
| 0:51.3 | partnered with Meal Acunis and Ashton Kutcher to release stoner cats. |
| 0:55.6 | He's done a number of projects since that as well with Big Head Club. |
| 0:59.6 | He also at the very end of this episode makes some predictions about the future of the |
| 1:04.0 | space. |
| 1:05.0 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 1:06.6 | A couple warnings before you totally dive in here. |
| 1:09.8 | One, we curse quite a bit in this episode, Mac is a bit of a cursor. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm a bit of a cursor, and then when I'm around somebody else who's a cursor, it really |
| 1:17.8 | gets unlocked. |
| 1:19.0 | So please just be cognizant of that if you have kids around or if you feel uncomfortable |
| 1:23.6 | with swear words, for what it's worth, probably worth putting it out there. |
| 1:27.9 | And then also we recorded this episode a number of weeks ago, and it was actually before |
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