This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

So Gary, thanks for coming on the show.

Thanks for having me.

Love the avatar that you've chosen.

So, as I said in the intro, you know, I know you from your background in social media

prior to NFTs, I was really encouraged to see you enter the space and the kind of

humanity that you brought with you.

And I guess like a very considered approach to NFTs and the community.

I think that's why V friends did so well.

But I really want to understand as it's sort of pioneered social media,

how you see NFTs, do you see NFTs as a form of social media?

And if so, what's different?

So first of all, thank you for having me.

This is unbelievable to be doing an interview in the Metaverse.

I'm just enjoying it tremendously.

You know, to me, it's absolutely another form of quote-unquote social media.

I think that what we're always living in as human beings is a desperate need to communicate.

Right? And right now, through my avatar, through your avatar, we're communicating,

and we're also communicating through the word.

But the NFTs that sit in one's public wallet in a decade is going to be one of the great

representations of who they actually are.

If you think about the evolution of the human, we first learned how to communicate verbally

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