Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3: #40 Mike Wen: Building Gallery to help NFT Collectors display their NFTs.

Mike Wen is the founder and CEO of Gallery. Hundreds of the largest NFT collectors use Gallery to curate and display their NFTs. Mike’s first NFT was a piece by Beeple, and when it netted him 100x profit, he became obsessed with collecting more NFT’s. When he couldn’t find a good way to curate & display his collection, he taught himself to code and created Gallery. Investors took notice and Gallery has now raised $2.69M from Collab+Currency, Coinbase Ventures, Dapper Labs and angel investments from 20+ collectors in the NFT space. Today, Mike is focused on making Gallery the go to place for curating, managing, and displaying NFT's.

In this episode we discuss:

What NFT's are: https://ethereum.org/en/nft/What Gallery is:A space for NFT collectors to display their collections.A set of tools for collectors to manage and curate their NFT's.A place to add meaning and context to NFT'sHow Gallery protects wallet holders from their NFT's being shown without authorization.Mike’s first NFT: BeepleSome of Mike’s favorite galleries:https://gallery.so/mikeyhttps://gallery.so/jo7https://gallery.so/pleasrdaoPleasrdao is the owner of “The Doge that started it all”:How Mike evaluates NFT's and collectionsSecuring an investment from Flamingo DAO - - through an interview with a set of black screens.How Gallery got the top NFT collectors as users such as FlamingoDAO, DCInvestor, and Kevin RoseHow to get Gallery membership via OpenSeaThe difference in mind set when building a Web3 company vs. a Web2 companyHow Gallery is growing and the roles it’s hiring for: Gallery's CareersIf Mike was to do this over again, whether he would’ve done anything differentlyHow NFT's will create the texture of who you are online and what you loveHow NFT's will represent more and more items such as tickets, music, and experiences:Books, movies, musicCollecting your experiences! For example utilizing PoAp’s, which are badges that represent you were somewhere - https://app.poap.xyzGames - Assets and skillsUsing https://www.artblocks.io as a vending machine to generate your own artWhat Gallery is focused on nextTaking your gallery anywhere and using it as a jumping off point into any 3D world

Learn More About Gallery

Gallery's Twitter: @useGALLERYMikey's Twitter: @mikeybitcoinGallery's Open Positions

Gallery Angel Investors Include:

@santiagoroel, @Cooopahtroopa, @gabusch, @DeezeFi, @gregisenberg, @pplpleasr1, @_jamiis, @whatdotcd, @andy8052, @dandelion_eth, @seth, @thattallguy

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Will, Lee & Andrew Recap After 25 Episodes and Starting a Learning Web3 Series (link)#27 Yoshi Luk: Exploring DeFi (Decentralized Finance) (link)#28 Evan Lai: How to Get Started Learning About Web3 (link)#31 Jay Chang: Cofounding Genopets. First Move-to-Earn NFT Game on Solana. (link)#32 Shalin Pei: Coinbase Designer. Unlocking a Playground for Creativity (link)#33 Howie Zhang: Designing an NFT Game Economy as a Quant Analyst (link)#34 Li Ouyang: Discovering an NFT Community She's Passionate About (link)#36 Peter Ng: Designing Spatial. The Airbnb for NFTS (link)#37 Katherine Liu: Onboarding the Next Million Artists into Web3 (link)#38 High Witches of Crypto Coven (link)#39 Rick Porter: Building DSCVR. The future of decentralized social. (link)