Personal Tokens & Creators IPOs

Our next private live with 4 amazing international guests joining the panel

Hi Venturers,

Happy to be there for another week after we’ve launched our premium access, can’t wait to share our upcoming live topic:
➥ annoucing our next Live Venture Talks about « Personal Tokens & Creators IPOs »

Before that we just wanted to share two things:
➥ 🔒 a housekeeping topic (premium members only)
➥ 🔒 a recent controversial news that is however in our view all the opposite (premium members only)

Housekeeping topic

🔒 premium members only

Recent controversial news that is however in our view all the opposite

🔒 premium members only

Next Live: « Personal Tokens & Creators IPOs »

Yes, our next Private Live “Venture Talks”, free for our premium members, planned for Oct. 26 @ 8pm UK (zoom).

We are probably biased by our VC twitter list.

In the Top 3 of topics guess who’s coming everyday to breakkie, lunch and dinner? Web3.

And it is all about how likely Web3 is to foster a more genuine and direct conversation between creators and their audience, allowing the former to turn the latter into communities.

Example of Audience vs. Community for a newsletter (credits: Marie Dollé FR or ENG) even if Web3 goes beyond this illustration of n-to-n discussions replacing 1-to-n ones.

Yet it is hard to cut out the noise from self-proclaimed community builders and authentic creators having built a personal brand and turned it into a cash generating asset.

However Web3 may or may not be actually only about cash. About two weeks ago I started to reach out to VCs and Founders to assemble a versatile panel that would unpack Live for us why creators / celebrities / people would embrace Web3 and issue personal tokens, binding them to being creative, committed and accountable.

So when I read 4 days ago Rex’ piece (Rex is VC @ Index in SF) on his newsletter Digital Native about « Social Tokens and Creator-Centric Economies », it was a no brainer Rex had to come on the said-show in prep.

🔥 Our next Live « Venture Talks »

We are thrilled to announce that we have assembled an amazing panel of repeat founders, VCs and personal tokens issuers, four guests located between San Francisco, Toronto, Paris and New York brought together for you to discuss about the rationale of launching Personal Tokens and the Creators IPOs narrative, its process and how that fosters creativity, commitment and accountability. And so much more.

🎙 Format: Live Venture Talks, an online AMA we will host & moderate with the 4-guest panel
🎯 Date: Oct 26, 12pm PDT / 8pm UK / 9pm CET
🍉 Private access for our premium members on "Venture Notes" to give them the opportunity to ask all their questions and engage with our guests.

✨ More about our 4 guests

Rex Woodbury 📍 San Francisco 🇺🇸 VC @ Index Ventures
Rex focuses on venture and growth investments in internet, media, and consumer software. He’s particularly interested in online communication, creators, and digital economies. Rex writes Digital Native, a weekly blog about consumer technology. Prior to Index, Rex worked at Airtable, a no-code platform letting anyone create with software and TPG Growth.

​Julien Genestoux 📍 New York 🇺🇸 Founder @ Unlock Protocol
Repeat founder (founded superfeedr, which was acquired by Medium in 2016). Unlock is an open source, Ethereum-based protocol designed to streamline membership benefits for online communities. Unlock is meant to help creators find ways to monetize without relying on a middleman. It’s a protocol and not a centralized platform that controls everything that happens on it.

​Kenneth Schlenker 📍 Paris 🇫🇷 Co-Founder @ Opal
Repeat founder (founded ArtList, which was acquired by artnet in 2017) and operator (General Manager of Bird, where he started international operations in 2018, built Bird's largest market globally Paris). Opal is the #1 screen time app, gathering 100,000+ people who save time, focus better, and develop healthier screen habits. Kenneth launched his personal token $KNTH.

Matthew Espinoza 📍 Toronto 🇨🇦 Co-Founder @ BlockPerks
BlockPerks allows creators to launch their own cryptocurrency and reward their fans with exclusive content, NFT’s and more.

We hope to see you there!

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That is all for today, enjoy your Sunday.
Raph, Founder @UPCOMINGVC®