The inspiring journey from start-up founder to the GP of one of emerging tech's largest and most successful venture firms. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJVKWlHTO9E

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beeple-ignites-revolution-rob-mowry/ The media spotlight firmly affixed on the NFT space of late has been unrelenting and incredibly exciting. It's fascinating to see television technology reporters, who know a bit about Bitcoin and less about Ethereum, attempt to explain the difference between an ERC721 & ERC1155 to the other reporters at the news desk who ask, live on the air, why can't people just print out the image they like on their printer instead of paying $69 million for it. The discussions that are occurring on Twitter surrounding NFTs have been the most entertaining. This is the social media platform of choice for most crypto influencers and technologists. The reason is text-based discussions abound from influential users who are already on Twitter crafting tweets for their technology projects. While one would think Instagram would be perfectly suited for NFTs, and it is being utilized aggressively by many NFT artists, Twitter is still the platform of choice. Computer science folks, blockchain engineers, entrepreneurs, we all love Elon Musk. For those who have not done a deep dive into the hours of hilarious and fascinating interviews that Elon Musk has done on Joe Rogan's podcast, one must understand Elon's sharp sense of humor that makes him an endlessly entertaining character. Yes, he is the world's richest person, a real life "Tony Stark" from Iron Man, and his characteristic intellectual curiosity feeds his seemingly insatiable appetite to find macro solutions to problems: SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Zip2, X.com, and Neurolink. All while raising kids. Impressive. He will also tweet often about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and now, NFTs. The verified/guaranteed language just speaks to the underlying technology. An ERC721 is a cryptographic token that is non-fungible, not mutually interchangeable, and with metadata processed through a cryptographic hash function, a 40-character sequence that allows it to be verifiable. That's what's under the blockchain hood, but the "guaranteed" speaks to it as an investment, which is anything but guaranteed. Unlike almost any industry, unfortunately, charlatans abound in crypto. Scams can be carried out often without a trace, with VPNs and Tor browsers leaving nary a breadcrumb for investigators to work with, creating increasingly emboldened cybercriminals. This combining of the two terms speaks to how so many pseudo-technologists will enter the space and wrap absolute garbage behind the veil of some easily replicable technical construct or simply a fork, a literal copy of an existing project, and jump onto a Clubhouse app VC room and demand an 8-figure valuation without work history, an executive team, employees, or a willingness to even provide ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_IzX_98JqU