😎 #94 - This Guy Built One Of The Best NFT Companies On The Planet | Giovanni Gussen

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4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 181 minutes

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Giovanni Gussen is a founder and innovator. In 2021, Gio and prominent artist, Waheed Zai, co-founded Smilesss, one of the most successful NFT companies on the planet called earth. Zai’s incredible portfolio includes collaborations with Supreme, Complex, and the great Pooh Shiesty (among others). ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Intro; Gio tries to remember SXSW, Gio was a Clubhouse fiend; Smilesss Co-Founder Waheed Zai’s backstory; Gio & Julian talk Bored Ape Yacht Club 25:10 - NFTs and use-case in the metaverse; The concept of value in NFTs; Smilesss’ partnership with eFuse; How many metaverses can there be? 36:07 - The Pooh Shiesty Album Cover that got Waheed on the map; Why Smilesss launched a collection (Smilesssvrs); Reflecting on where we are since the last time Gio was in for a podcast (Ep 34); Everything that goes into an NFT Collection launch 1:03:40 - What Smilesss did post-launch to get rolling; The Verifried Drop; Gas problems; UI, UX, and simplicity in crypto; Smilesss partnership with Coinbase; Why fashion is ubiquitous 1:24:00 - Dealing with different cultures around the world in the modern internet business world; Biden’s executive order on Crypto; The problems with CBDC’s and centralization; The metaverse vs the Physical world; Haptics; Gio brings up Elon Musk & Neuralink; Shaan Puri’s theory on the metaverse; How Gio sees Smilesss in the Web3 world; Gio recalls the Discord hack; The earliest effects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) 1:49:10 - Gio’s recent trip to Miami to meet with the big VC’s; Remembering the Great ICO Crisis of 2018; The balance of building in front of the community vs. innovating; Gio talks more about South BY Southwest; the shooting that was not Smilesss fault; Who is Smilesss looking to partner with right now? 2:08:24 - Smilesss the next Supreme in the metaverse?; Fashion and the IG era; Gio and Julian bring up the Metaverse vs Physical world conundrum again; “You have to have bad to know what good is”; Twitter hacks are a disaster right now 2:28:13 - The problem with over-anonymity in crypto; Gio talks about other projects he likes; Smilesss’ TV Show Development deal with Time; Gio & Waheed’s creative relationship; What makes Smilesss different 2:46:24 - Has Gio pinched himself yet?; Leverage; Tai Lopez’s rug ~ YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q ~ PRIVADO VPN FOR $4.99/Month: https://privadovpn.com/trendifier/#a_aid=Julian Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “TRENDIFIER”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	As much as the Metaverse exists and all the stuff that we're doing in there, I still live
0:05.7	in the physical world.
0:06.7	I still want to do shit in the physical world.
0:08.4	I still want to go outside, toss the baseball with my dog.
0:10.8	I still want to smell and see grass, you know?
0:13.7	So it's like, it's interesting though because you could also compare that to like realistically
0:18.2	anything, like the nuclear bomb.
0:19.7	If all it takes is one wrong scientist to you know yeah shut to get it in the
0:25.5	wrong hands and do something horrible with so it's like at the end of the day
0:29.3	as scary as it is you're investing in the people to hopefully do right with the
0:32.2	new technology that's getting spun out Spunk out.
0:43.4	What's cooking, everybody?
0:48.3	If you are on YouTube right now, please hit that subscribe button, hit that like button on the video.
0:49.3	And as always, if you have a second, would love to see you drop a comment down in
0:52.7	the video comment section as well to everyone who has been sharing the links to these episodes, I say it every week,
0:58.6	but I will keep saying it because it's enormous. Thank you. That is the best thing we can do.
1:03.2	It's word of mouth to spread the news of the show, and I really, really appreciate all of you,
1:07.1	so let's keep that rolling. To everyone is listening on apple and spotify right now
1:11.7	thank you for checking out the show there if you haven't already be sure to hit the follow
1:15.5	button on either one of those platforms and leave a five-star review if you have a second and i look
1:20.0	forward to seeing you guys again for future episodes now i am joined in the bunker today by my
1:26.2	very good friend mr geo Gio Gusson.
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