Robby Yung: Animoca CEO On What It Takes To Make a $6B Web3 Gaming Empire
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An 8/10, 4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐must watch.
Very cool to be interviewing Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands. As someone who manages a $6 billion portfolio, he's as knowledgeable as you'd expect.
With 30 years in technology, he's been there, seen it, got the t-shirt.
It's a gaming t-shirt. Possibly Amstrad. Or Atari.
The Animoca investment portfolio is jammed full of web3 success stories: The Sandbox, Axie Infinity, Polygon, Dapper Labs, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, Consensys, OpenSea. And then there's the Animoca Decentralized ID vision.
Moca Network is "a chain-agnostic digital identity infrastructure for the open internet." Imagine one universal account for all your assets, all your logins? No more Apple.
No more Google.
Robby is one of the most recognizable faces leading one of the most successful names in crypto and web3. Watch the interview now.
Or save it to your Spotify or Apple podcast playlist for later. You know, when you're at the gym. Or on the road. Or in the bath. Or wherever it is you like to listen to our beautiful voices.
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Chapters
(00:00) Introduction Disruptors & Curious Minds
(01:06) Hello Robby And Animoca Brands
(01:24) Lesson From 30 Years In Technology
(06:25) Stablecoin Transaction Volume V Visa
(11:18) Audience Infrastructure and Bi-Directional Value Exchange
(15:56) The Evolution of Web3 Gaming
(22:13) Investment Strategies in the Web3 Landscape
(24:08) The Zed Run Case Study
(27:21) User Acquisition in Web3: The Ongoing Struggle
(31:19) Sustaining Attention in DAOs
(32:10) What Is The Mocha Network and Mocha ID
(45:34) Decentralized Identity
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