Sporting Crypto Podcast
🎙️ S1. Ep. 11: Candy Digital: Building a Sports Web3 Company Ft. Scott Lawin
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In Ep. 11 of the Podcast I was lucky enough to speak to Scott Lawin, CEO of Candy Digital.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
04:17 Candy Digital & the NFT boom
08:25 Licensing & partnerships
16:43 Leverage in structuring deals & the changing market
18:14 Sustaining in a bear market
21:09 Onboarding users through conversion from less speculative activations
23:04 Fanatics divestment & Palm NFT Studio merge
29:57 Biggest opportunities within sport & Web3
34:17 Sport & gaming within Web3
37:29 Loyalty on-chain vs off-chain
40:38 Identity, privacy & data
42:07 Palm network & future prospects for Candy Digital
46:14 What are you most excited about in the next 3-5 years?
48:35 What do you think is overhyped?
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