Top Takeaways
- MetaKovan is a crypto investor, who now operates Metapurse, a fund dedicated to collecting & promoting crypto art.
- He bought Beeple's "Everydays" for $69M because he believed it captured this moment in the evolution of NFTs and will be known as one of the most important early NFT works.
- Metakovan currently doesn't hold Bitcoin because his appetite for risk is higher. He wants to be in assets he thinks can 10x.
- "Crypto is like walking down a street in Somalia with cash in your pockets." It's easy to lose your money.
- "If America is an idea, crypto is the new America. It is freedom and open borders."
E1200 started with an overview of the social audio space, then continued into an interview with MetaKovan.
https://youtu.be/kHXIn-nq90A
Social Audio Competition
Three newsworthy things happened in the social audio space on Monday (4/19/20):
1) Reddit announced they are launching a social/casual audio platform:
https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1384211599032942595
2) Mark Zuckerberg officially announced that Facebook is joining the social audio game while talking with Casey Newton on Discord
“Every once in a while a new medium comes along that can be adopted into a lot of different areas,” Zuckerberg said. “I think that’s going to be true with these live audio rooms.”
- Zuckerberg likened live casual audio chat to a features like the news feed and stories, which now exist on most social platforms
- Zuck also thinks social audio rooms will do great on Facebook due to their pre-built communities