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CONSENSUS CONVERSATIONS: Why Marvel Studios' Founder Pivoted to Web3

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A Consensus 2023 panel with Erik Calderon and David Maisel. The Founding Chairman of Marvel Studios who spearheaded the launch of the first Iron Man movie and the Marvel Cinematic Universe discusses his new digital art venture, the Ekos Genesis Art Collection, with one of the field's leading artists and founders. Erick Calderon, founder and CEO of Art Blocks, speaks with David Maisel, founding chairman of Marvel Studios and Mythos Studios. This episode is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and edited by Ryan Huntington, with additional production assistance from Eleanor Pahl. Cover image by Kevin Ross and the theme song is "Get Down" by Elision. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:07.0

It's really nice to see you guys.

1:10.0

Thanks for sticking around to the tail end of the conference.

1:13.6

I'm Eric, this is David, and I'm really excited to kind of talk to you guys today about something that really piqued my interest.

1:21.6

We come from very different backgrounds, so I kind of wanted to explain a little bit about why I'm here, why I have

1:28.3

the opportunity to kind of talk to David and a mutual friend and fellow artist introduced us

1:35.3

a few months ago and said you guys would probably get along and you probably have some shared mutual

1:40.3

interests. And to be fair, I've been collecting comic books and comic cards since I was a kid, but really

1:46.7

kind of missed out on the middle section of like pop culture over the last couple decades.

1:52.4

And so even though I was introduced by a really good friend, I was like, man, it was

1:56.2

something I was very curious about, but I did not expect that I was going to leave so inspired. So call was initiated. First of all, it was a video call where David and I had a very long conversation

2:08.6

about ripping open comic book cards and chasing the hologram, which is something that if anybody's collected

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