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Focus is critical when you are building a business. The whole NFT industry is moving incredibly quickly. What happens in a month in the crypto-world, may take a couple of years in other industries.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
We've heard stories from folks who have paid off their student debt by becoming digital artists and selling NFTs. If you think about the jobs of the future – there will be people who will be making money as VR sculptors, virtual land real estate agents… People are already creating those jobs now!
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
For the creator economy, NFTs represent a way for creators and producers of content to directly engage with the people who support them. It's a completely different model… a way for artists and creators to monetise much more effectively than incumbent platforms.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
You could take a sword from one game and move it to another. In the events industry, you can imagine having event tickets operating as these collectible, persistent, immutable objects you can carry between markets, with different benefits… potentially even being redeemable against real-world assets.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
Web3 and blockchain are as big of a fundamental shift as the internet was in 1999-2000. Crypto and NFTs create open systems with distributed ownership that can be used to build a practically infinite number of applications. We're at day zero of a gigantic wave.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
NFTs allow game economies to be open. Instead of everything existing in – say – Fortnite's ecosystem, NFTs allow interoperability between games. You could take a sword from one game and move it to another.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
For the creator economy, NFTs represent a way for creators and producers of content to directly engage with the people who support them. It's a completely different model… a way for artists and creators to monetise much more effectively than incumbent platforms.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
Existing platforms don't necessarily have the best business models for creators, nor do they enable creators to interact directly with their fans in a way that value can pass directly to the people who are producing the creative work.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
Web3 and blockchain are as big of a fundamental shift as the internet was in 1999-2000. Crypto and NFTs create open systems with distributed ownership that can be used to build a practically infinite number of applications. We're at day zero of a gigantic wave.
— Devin FinzerCo-Founder and CEO of OpenSea, leading NFT marketplace platform
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