All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast.

It is I, Pizza Mind here, your host, and I am joined today by Ash Gamy, the growth hacking extraordinaire at DeSo, Decentralized Social

Protocol.

Ash, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

I'm a huge fan.

And I'm a huge fan of what you're doing as well, making social networks open and honest and back of the hands of the people.

What you've built over at DeSoe is so much more than just a decentralized Twitter.

We'll get into that in a second. But first, let's learn who you are.

Tell us a little bit about your background, how you got into the space and

how you wound up being the head of marketing over there at DeSoe.

Yeah, so I've been to do a digital marketing forever, like 10 or 12 years. I started at the small

local level for small local businesses in Denver, grinded my way up through the agency ranks. And then, you know,

during that time, you don't really have a portfolio as like an SEO or content guy. So I spun up a

blog for Daily Fantasy Sports. So I could basically try marketing tactics and see what worked. And then I

could go to agencies and be like, hey, like this works.

I can do it for you or I could get clients that way. Well, I ended up getting like a lot of

organic traffic to the site. And I had a partner at the time too. We monetize the website and

sold projections and like premium content and stuff. So I was it was like it's kind of like a

startup I was moonlighting managing that site and then working at agencies during the day and then

you know late 2016 early 2017 comes around and I read a book called Ethereum by Henning

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