GEN C: Live from Consensus: Memes & Money
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
From the Consensus stage, we explore the rise of meme coins and the financialization of cultural ideas through blockchain technology.
In this episode, we feature a panel from Consensus moderated by Camilla McFarland with artist Rhett Mankind, marketer Liz Hagelthorn, talent representative Chris Jacquemin, and investor Derek Edwards to discuss the emergence of meme coins, the tokenization of cultural concepts and the potential impact of this trend on art, celebrity and the monetization of ideas. This episode was recorded live at Consensus 2024 in Austin, TX.
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"Gen C" features hosts Sam Ewen and Avery Akkineni. Executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced by Uyen Truong. Our theme music is "1882” by omgkirby x Channel Tres with editing by Doc Blust. Artwork by Nicole Marie Rincon.
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| 0:00.0 | So we know a company's worth, this value with stock value, is much greater than the underlying |
| 0:05.4 | assets of the property or the equipment that they have. If you add all that up, there's |
| 0:09.7 | another layer, and that's the brand equity, that intangible value that a company has. And for |
| 0:16.8 | me, memes, I like 100% brand equity. |
| 0:22.8 | MAME equity is brand equity. |
| 0:49.1 | This episode is sponsored by SAFE, the account abstraction leader on Ethereum. Avery, we're back. It was so great seeing you in Austin last week for consensus. I want to talk about that. |
| 0:53.6 | I think I saw you also just got back from Patau and you're going to be heading to Cannes in about a week and a half. So so much things happening on the event side that I thought it would be good for us to break down |
| 0:58.7 | all of that before we play one of our sessions from consensus that I've been thinking about a lot. |
| 1:04.9 | So first of all, you were there for a couple of days. |
| 1:08.0 | Tell us your impressions of consensus. |
| 1:12.4 | Sam, congrats to you when the whole coin dust team for absolutely crushing consensus. I thought it was so well done, |
| 1:16.6 | both from a production standpoint and a 10D perspective and of course the thoughtful programming |
| 1:21.4 | that Sam Ewen is known for. Just across the board, I really enjoyed it. I pleasantly surprised. |
| 1:27.0 | This is my, I think my third or fourth |
| 1:28.5 | consensus. And as happens with crypto, excitement like waxes and wanes. And this was a time when there |
| 1:35.0 | was so much excitement, so much positivity, so many people sort of building the space, all coalescing in |
| 1:40.0 | Austin to exchange ideas, to network, to talk about the future of where this industry and this |
| 1:44.5 | space is heading. So I thought it was absolutely fantastic. And the weather cooperated as well, |
| 1:49.4 | which was nice. We did have a couple of like 5 a.m. rainstorms. I don't know if that woke you up, |
| 1:53.9 | but I thought they were very poetic and picturesque. And I agree. I think this year we had a ton of |
| 2:00.7 | optimism, energy. I think that we had some amazing conversations. I think this year we had a ton of optimism, energy. I think that we had so amazing |
| 2:03.3 | conversations. I think one of the things that was one of the key themes, I'm actually like writing my |
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