GEN C: Tokenizing Once in a Lifetime Experiences With Andy Krainak, President of VeeFriends

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of “Gen C,” VeeFriends President Andy Krainak comes on the podcast to discuss VeeCon year two, creating with Gary Vaynerchuck and how VeeFriends is activating a very loyal audience with empathy.

This episode is sponsored by Chainalysis.com.

Andy took a chance 11 years ago by tweeting at Gary V and asking for an internship. Fast-forward and Andy now leads VeeFriends, Gary’s successful Web3 brand NFT, event pass and community. He comes on the pod to discuss the most recent VeeCon conference in Indianapolis that featured everyone from Busta Rhymes to Drew Barrymore and Deepak Chopra. Krainak shares how major brands got involved, which speakers excited the audience most and how the event and community will evolve in time. Avery and Sam also discuss Bitcoin NFTs, Brave Browser’s recent token gated video calling service and finally how the Professional Bowlers Association is minting achievements for members.

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0:49.6	This episode of Gen C is sponsored by Chainalysis.
0:55.2	Welcome to Gen C. Gen C is sponsored by Chainalysis. Welcome to Gen C.
0:56.8	Gen C is Generation Crypto.
0:58.8	These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy, on how they look at money,
1:02.7	how they look at identity, how they look at privacy, and how they reimagine their relationships
1:07.0	with the communities and companies they interact with.
1:10.3	We focus on how Web2 and Web3
1:12.1	brands are building for these audiences. I'm Sam Ewan from CoinDesk, and our co-host is Avery Akenini
1:17.4	from Vayner 3. All right, Avery, great to see you. I know you are just coming off the heels
1:25.1	of VCon. That's going to be kind of the theme of the entire episode.
1:28.1	As we talked later with Andy Kranak from VFriends,
1:31.2	who's going to tell us a little bit more about the inside scoop
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