Breaking the Ice - Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz
Jul 14 2023
In this first episode of TNS's new weekly Zero Rights Reserved podcast, The Noun Square's Toady Hawk and Prof Werder interview Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins.
We'll hear about his formative years, his long list of entrepreneurial successes, and why he believes the pengus can become one of the biggest brands, both inside and outside of the NFT space.
We also chat in depth about Nouns DAO Prop 325, a collaboration between Pudgy Penguins and Nouns DAO to make some fun nounish pengu collectibles!
Timestamps:
0:00 The Luca Origin Story.
3:30 The importance of Not Giving Up
7:00 Career before Pudgy Penguins, Part 1: Off the Chain
12:40 Part 2: Von Dutch & Gel-blaster
14:45 Crypto/NFT journey before PP
19:30 The Pudgy Purchase
21:00 Degen minting Mutants during a Hasbro M&A meeting
24:50 Why did he buy PP?
29:44 A word from our sponsors: OnChainMonkey
30:48 On the Pudgy toy launches
36:50 How did Luca meet the Prof Werder and Klim from Nouns community39:00 Why do a proposal instead of just using the CC0 assets permissionlessly?
44:17 Summary of current Nouns DAO Prop
47:35 Luca on the Noggles as a brand/symbol
49:33 Pudgy Penguins will buy a Noun?
53:50 Future Nouns/PP collab ideas
Zero Rights Reserved (Zero Pod for short) is the new flagship weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more!
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Interview by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder, editing by SuperTightWoody.
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