In this episode, we’re talking to Justin Waldron, former 19-year-old co-founder of Zynga and current founder of Storyverse, a web3 venture aimed at bringing NFTs to life. Justin has also advised ​​Dapper Labs, CryptoKitties, Decentraland, and Immutable (probably nothing).

Justin unpacks all of his learnings from his years at Zynga working on Farmville, Mafia Wars, & Zynga Poker, and how he’s implementing these first principles into his current NFT ventures. He also explains how Storyverse is helping bring NFTs to life through the storytelling tools it enables and why he thinks people play games and how NFTs make this reason even more compelling!

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 6:15 Justin’s Background 10:13 Zynga’s Big Innovations 18:42 Freemium NFT Games 24:06 Why People Play Games 30:00 Playco Explained 38:40 Storyverse Deep-dive 44:25 Storyverse Cannon 50:04 Partnership Learnings 1:02:58 Creator Economy $INK 1:13:55 NFT Licensing 1:20:32 Closing

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Justin’s Twitter https://twitter.com/jtwald 

Playco https://twitter.com/playco 

Storyverse https://twitter.com/storyverse_xyz 

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