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1:03:39 8 غږوونکي 24 څپرکي 1559 برخې

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The transcript is a recording of a live stream where the host, Mariana, welcomes Sam, the founder of Pocket Dragons, to the show. Sam is an old friend who has been building the project for a long time. The host asks Sam to introduce himself and explain how he decided to create this project and bring it to the blockchain. Sam shares his background as a DJ and his experience in the crypto world, including his frustration with scams and low-quality effort in the NFT market. He explains his motivation for building Pocket Dragons and his contrast with the DJ world.

څپرکي

  1. 1:23

    All right, guys, before we officially get started, I'm going to play a cool song as we wait for everybody to join. So enjoy that for a few minutes. And in the meantime, as you're waiting, listening to the song and waiting for everybody to j…

  2. 2:58

    say, I'm oh yeah um thank y'all yeah yeah. Come get your man. You got locked in my DMs. My DMs. You better come get your man. If you wanna be way more than friends. What? Way more than friends. What time are they to say? You're not full. Go…

  3. 5:25
    څپرکی 3: everybody. 300s · Speaker 3

    everybody. Good evening. Good afternoon. I don't know where you are in the world, but wherever you are, welcome to Chronically Unchained. Today, we have Sam. Sam is an old friend. He's been talking about this and building this for such a lo…

  4. 10:26

    And if someone hasn't checked out our latest trailer, Basically, that went live about two hours ago. You can have a look at his work there. Very, very solid guy. We also have Hearty, which I believe he could be in this space, but he might b…

  5. 12:51

    Sam, for those who don't know, what chain are the NFTs going to be on? What have you guys already revealed when it comes to anything related to this NFT? And yeah, just those technicalities first. So for all those who don't really know and …

  6. 16:42

    what do they love. Like I'm literally in there most days. And again, I don't know if people get sick of it, but like I'm replying to people. I'm doing tickets. I'm literally having one -on -one phone calls, like you said, because it just ma…

  7. 21:46

    and age as technology keeps on advancing is the one that's very human and Honestly, you guys are really As I can see, at least, you guys are prioritizing community a lot. And I've loved the website experience. I've participated in it to exp…

  8. 26:46

    And when we showcase this, we have an AMA tomorrow, and I'm showcasing the economy side of it. And I think people will be really fascinated and hopefully really enjoy the economy side because this is how the financial side works, right? We'…

  9. 28:46
    څپرکی 9: I love it. 123s · Speaker 3

    I love it. I love it. And I honestly really agree with the vision. And at the end of the day, it's... You can never predict what's going to happen in the crypto scene. It's always very volatile. It's always changing. And so the best thing y…

  10. 30:49

    Yeah. So I think there's a little bit of context. In regards to the marketing side, and I need to be very transparent, we've spent $0 on KOLs. We've spent, I guess spent, but like I say giveaways are still some sort of marketing cost. We've…

  11. 34:06

    know sam honestly um i i i want to say something about i want to like add to what you were saying i think I think as you said, it's really important when it comes to marketing. It's really important to understand. You guys understand the ma…

  12. 36:33

    Yeah, I just wanted to like give a good example of that. So when we first started building Pocket Dragons, I was like, so maybe I was in Fairyland, right? Where I'm just like, okay, I'll make these cute characters. I'll sell plushies and I'…

  13. 39:17

    Exactly, you know, and what people want changes a lot. And it's even in Web 2, you know, like in Web 3, it's a little bit on crack. Like it's even faster than ever and it's faster than anything I've seen my entire life. But if you think abo…

  14. 42:42

    Yeah, well, I mean, we just looked at the market, right? Like, if you look on your timelines, and this is just going to get worse, a lot of the things are very AI -based, and there's nothing wrong with AI. If you don't utilize AI in your wo…

  15. 44:25

    And then at the end of the day... Like I spoke to TJ about this and even Hardy. When we put our heads on the pillow every night, say we get one like or no one cares or whatever it is, we really don't mind. We're so proud of our product that…

  16. 45:29

    Yeah, you know, that makes sense. I mean, you kept your identity, you kept taste, you kept the human touch, which is very much noticeable, you know? It's extremely noticeable. And the intense, sloppy use of AI is also very noticeable. And b…

  17. 50:30

    I see you on my timeline, but I think this is the first time you're on my space. So please let me know how to say your name and you have your hand up. So go ahead. Yeah, Jim. It's pronounced saying D. So it's kind of something like that. It…

  18. 52:27

    Yeah, I appreciate you asking the question. I mean, I'll take more of a helicopter approach on this, but I think we can all say, everyone here, if you've purchased an NFT or something in the crypto space, that every time after a mint happen…

  19. 54:02

    like... In the NFT market, if you're still going in 12 months, it's like you're already a success, which is quite crazy, right? It's such a sad metric to look at. But, like, I'm very hard on myself, and I speak to the marketing team and oth…

  20. 55:05

    And again, I'm going to speak a lot about this tomorrow in the AMA, but you see a lot of projects, they have marketplace fees, and there's like 5%. And you've seen projects do anywhere from 100K or up to millions and millions of dollars in …

  21. 56:14

    Thank you so much, James. I think I've been able to get a feel of your mindset when it comes to the metrics you use to measure your own you know success right it does make sense that you know you don't keep yourself in such a close box righ…

  22. 57:48

    Yeah, great question. So other than that reason, there is actually. So again, a little bit about my history is I've been in crypto 10 years. I was very fortunate at some point to buy certain tokens, you know, Solana at 80 cents, Luna at 20 …

  23. 1:00:24

    oh, I gotta go to work or oh, I gotta do this. I'm just like, hell yeah, I get to do this. It's so much fun, right? So again, I'm very fortunate, but yeah, I hope that answers your question. Yes, it does. Thank you so much. Like you said, I…

  24. 1:02:05

    And, yeah, I just want to say thanks for everyone coming along with this journey. It's super fun. It's super cool to see this come to life again. if you guys need anything discord dms all those things are always open i um i'm not one of tho…