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This Week in Startups

Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou on powering NFTs, NBA Top Shot, & CryptoKitties | E1197

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Check out Dapper Labs: https://www.dapperlabs.com​
FOLLOW Roham: https://twitter.com/rohamg​
FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis​

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, last Thursday, back on April 8th, I interviewed Dapper Labs, CEO and Founder

0:04.8

Rome, Gary Goslou, and he is a really brilliant guy who did cryptokitties. He is part of this

0:10.6

NFT boom, the non-fungible token boom. And so when I don't understand something,

0:15.8

I just put out the bat signal. I find the people who are doing the most important work,

0:19.7

and I interview them. And then I record it, and then I share it with you. So we can all get

0:23.6

smarter. It works brilliantly. If you don't know, NBA Top Shot is powered by Roham's company

0:30.8

Dapper, and it has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions or ready. It's pretty

0:37.6

bonkers. So this is a great interview. You're going to really enjoy it. And NFT is, I think, you've

0:42.5

probably heard me be critical of crypto many times. NFT is actually, I think make a total amount

0:47.2

of sense. If you have digital trading cards and people are buying weapons and mana in video games,

0:53.6

why wouldn't you buy a one-of-a-kind dunk by LeBron James? What a great idea. By the way,

0:58.4

we're having another event. And like all the events we do, free for founders. The name of the event

1:03.3

is Meet Our Fund. It's going to be on June 8th and 9th. It's going to be on Zoom. Maybe we'll

1:07.2

use one of the other event platforms. You can go to MeetOurFun.com. And I decided to flip the script.

1:12.7

I realized, you know, you go to a demo day, and all the founders are pitching the venture firms.

1:18.5

But the founders don't know much about the venture firms. So what if we flip the script,

1:22.1

and we gave each of the venture firms 20 minutes to present, and 10 minutes to answer questions,

1:27.3

and we had 50 of them show up. Well, today we announced four, the first four speakers,

1:31.6

and we're going to fill in over the next couple of weeks the rest of the 50 speakers. And you as

1:36.8

a founder can go there and look at the menu of all the different firms. And maybe you have a co-founder,

1:43.6

you can pick which ones you want to go to and get really educated as to what that firm can do

1:48.9

for you and your startup as opposed to what you can do for that firm, which is get them a great return.

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