How Pplpleasr Helped Fortune Magazine Sell More Than $1 Million in NFTs - Ep.268
Pplpleasr, the artist behind Fortune magazine’s recent crypto cover and Uniswap’s V3 announcement animation, talks about her crypto journey and how NFTs are changing the game for creators. Show highlights:
- how not getting a job at Apple changed her life forever
- how the Pplpleasr-Uniswap collaboration came about
- what goes into her creative process
- how Pplpleasr got hired for the Fortune magazine cover
- why she chose to represent anon-avatars on the Fortune cover
- why Pplpleasr was surprised by Fortune’s response to her artwork (and crypto in general)
- what sort of crypto personas are represented on the Fortune cover and why
- how NFTs are changing the paradigm of monetization for creators compared to the traditional art world
- what pplpleasr is looking forward to in future NFT smart contracts
- why NFTs are still limited right now
- why institutions, like Budweiser and Visa, are suddenly interested in NFTs
- what Fortune is doing to grow its NFT collection
- how DAOs are changing art curation and collecting
- why Pplpleasr was surprised that a DAO (bearing her name) purchased the Uniswap V3 animation
- where Pplpleasr thinks the NFT space will go in the next year or so
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Episode Links:
Pplpleasr
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/pplpleasr1
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pplpleasr/
- Website: https://pplplsr.com/
Pplpleasr Content:
- Fortune op-ed on crypto
- Her previous work for DeFi protocols
- Fortune cover
Miscellaneous Links
- PleasrDAO
- OpenSea’s post-mortem on Chad sale
- Business of business write up
- Manifold
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