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Web3 Waves™️

By: Michael Gaizutis Emery Bishop
  • Summary

  • On Web3 Waves Podcast with Michael Gaizutis, we interview the most insightful entrepreneurs and investors in the next age of the digital world. Get to know the pioneers and visionaries of Web3 and hear about their experiences, latest projects, and professional insights.
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Episodes
  • Ep #19 - Bringing Web2 Users Closer to Web3 w/ Eric McHugh
    Jan 31 2023

    🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talk with a brilliant guest - Eric McHugh who is Chief Growth Officer, and Founder at ShopX. 


    Eric’s experience includes ad optimization for Snap Inc, consulting for fortune 500 through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, Dark Matter research at Carnegie Melon University with my brother’s team, and helping found CartRev, a social commerce platform that had over 100 Shopify Brands using its SAAS platform. Presently, Eric is a Chief Growth of SHOPX and views growth as his main responsibility. More specifically, the growth of token holder value, by whatever means necessary within the bounds of reason. His top 3 traits are endless endurance, top-tier perception, and very thick skin.



    ShopX is an NFT-as-a-Service (NaaS) suite of solutions that allow businesses to create branded e-commerce NFTs, driving sales and customer engagement in Web3. 

    SHOPX equips merchants with the tools they need to have more control over fees, data, and transactions--helping them grow their business and improve the customer experience one purchase at a time.



    🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

    • Eric's experiences & ShopX origin story.
    • Benefits of integrating blockchain & web3 into E-commerce
    • Increasing Customer Loyalty with NFTs 
    • ShopX Partnership with Avalance 
    • Brands that ShopX has partnered with
    • NFTs getting into mainstream
    • ShopX's traction in the space.
    • ShopX on operating in the web3
    • Scopes for everyone in the web3.


    🔗 Guest Links:

    • Be sure to follow Eric on Twitter 
    • Check out ShopX if you are an E-commerce brand or consumer and want to dive in Web3. 


    🚀 Thanks again for tuning in to this episode of the W3W Podcast! If you found it insightful, definitely give us a review and help us reach more listeners interested in all things Web3.


    🏛️ Discord is our main hub and a community with some of the brightest Web3 Developers, Founders, Investors, and Experts making waves in web3! Don't wait to join the fun!


    Join our awesome Discord Community to learn, ask, network and make waves in Web3!


    Brought to you by:

    RNO1 | Experience Design & Growth Agency For Tech & Web3 Brands Of The Future.


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    46 mins
  • #18 Self-Custody Limitations and its Future w/ Rohan Agrawal
    Jan 24 2023

    🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with our brilliant guest - Rohan Agrawal, Rohan is the co-founder of Cypherock Wallet, where he is building the world's first web3 wallet without a seed phrase.

    Rohan has been developing software since 2014 and has been in the Crypto space since 2017. He has worked with organizations such as Blockgeeks, Fossasia (Google Summer of Code), Apollo Munich, Siftr Labs (acq.), and Samsung amongst others. He is a generalist by nature having worked across both technical and non-technical roles in the past.


    Cypherock is a Singapore based venture backed security storage solutions provider intended for blockchain-based digital assets and private keys. The company's product is a hardware wallet in the shape of a mobile case, enabling users to maintain the security level of the blockchain's investment as well as avoid the threat of interruption in the software and provide a physical-digital solution for the safe custody of crypto assets. Cypherock has recently raised $1M to continue on our mission of eliminating SeedPhrases in web3. The startup has raised its funding from Consensys which is founded by Ethereum's cofounder and other Crypto builders in the space. 


    🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

    • Cypherock's origin story.
    • Risks of centralized financial ecosystems.
    • Barriers for making self-custody accessible.
    • Future of self-custody of crypto assets.
    • Biggest edge for Cypherock.
    • Asset support and user features roadmap.
    • Cypherock's traction in the space.
    • Rohan's unique take on the trust challenges for mass adoption.
    • Web2 inheritance incompatibility with web3.

    🔗 Guest Links:

    • Be sure to follow Rohan on Twitter 
    • Check out Cypherock if you don’t want to remember your seed phrase ever!

    🚀 Thanks again for tuning-in to this episode of W3W Podcast! If you found it insightful, definitely give us a review and help us reach more listeners interested in all things Web3.

    🏛️ Discord is our main hub and a community with some of the brightest Web3 Developers, Founders, Investors and Experts making waves in web3! Don't wait to join the fun!

    Join our awesome Discord Community to learn, ask, network and make waves in Web3!

    Brought to you by:
    RNO1 | Experience Design & Growth Agency For Tech & Web3 Brands Of The Future.

    Follow us on:
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    51 mins
  • #17 Scaling Design for Web3 w/ Chris Berry & Anthony Kalasunas
    Jan 4 2023

    🎙️ Today, Michael & Emery talks with two brilliant guests - Chris Berry, Co-Founder, Managing Director at Party Hat, Co-founder of TopX, VP-Growth at Koncepted and Anthony Kalasunas, Co-owner & Managing Director at Prime Planet and Account Executive at Koncepted.

    Chris previously worked as a Product Manager at Bucksy and Founder of Bitcomex. After dropping out of university to pursue a startup in 2014, Chris spent several years building companies, both large and small, with some successes and some failures. He is a serial entrepreneur who over the past 7 years has scaled multiple companies to 7-8 figures in EBITA, all with small bootstrapped teams. Over time, he became more fascinated with building brands, smart technologies and bridging the gap between media and product. Today, he is currently working with a talented team on a new company called Partyhat; serving as a co-founder and managing director. They are an incubation group that builds brands and partners them with talent. He consults for a variety of international brands and is also writing a book on the psychology of long term MMORPG(Massively multiplayer online game) gameplay endurance and its effects on entrepreneurship, to be published in coming months.

    Anthony started in the crypto space in 2013. Having owned and operated several businesses, he has a deep background in management and business relations, both in the hospitality and blockchain industries. He bought his first NFT in mid-2021 and has been fascinated with Web3 ever since. Aside from Prime Planet, he is currently with Koncepted: a design company who specializes in Web3 related content.


    🎯 Topics covered in this episode:

    • Story of Koncepted and Partyhat.
    • Forming a startup as a creative.
    • Startup studio focusing on Web3 design.
    • Bridge between gaming and Web3
    • Keeping up with design trends.
    • Design at scale for Web3.
    • Scaling in diverse, high risk industries.
    • Arts business expanding with NFTs.
    • Growing a team and allocating talent.

    🔗 Guest Links:

    • Be sure to connect with our guests, Chris & Anthony on LinkedIn
    • Follow Chris & Anthony on Twitter.
    • Check out PrimePlanet NFTs, Koncepted and PartyHat to see how they're making waves in Web3!

    🚀 Thanks again for tuning-in to this episode of W3W Podcast!  If you found it insightful, definitely give us a review and help us reach more listeners interested in all things Web3.

    🏛️ Discord is our main hub and a community with some of the brightest Web3 Developers, Founders, Investors and Experts making waves in web3! Don't wait to join the fun!

    Join our awesome Discord Community to learn, ask, network and make waves in Web3!

    Brought to you by:
    RNO1 | Experience Design & Growth Agency For Tech & Web3 Brands Of The Future.

    Follow us on:
    Twitter
    LinkedIn
    Facebook
    Instagram
    Medium

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    1 hr and 4 mins

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