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Fireside Chat & Q+A with Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins  Date: Wed 2 August  Time: 9am PT/4pm UTC Luca Netz (Luca Schnetzler) is the CEO of Pudgy Penguins, an 8,888 NFT collection of adorable cartoon penguins. In April 2022, Netz acquired the Pudgy brand and his leadership has turned it into a success story beyond Web3.  In May 2023, the company introduced a physical line of plushies and figurines called Pudgy Toys. The launch of these physical collectibles topped the charts on Amazon, with over $500,000 in sales volume over two days. In this genius call, Luca will discuss his vision for Pudgy Penguins and the rationale behind this acquisition. He will also cover licensing and merchandinsing products that have roots in web3, leveraging community and building trust, insights from running a web3 business, monetising social influence and much more.    Connect with Luca at: https://twitter.com/LucaNetz

Genius Call #28: Fireside Chat & Q+A with Bruno Faviero, Founder & CEO of Magna & Founding Partner at Alloy Fund.  Date: Wed 21 June Time: 9am PT/4pm UTC Bruno Faviero is the founder and CEO of Magna, which provides token vesting and tokenholder management services to crypto companies. Prior to Magna, Bruno was co-founder and CEO of Synapse, an AI company that was acquired by Palantir. In this genius call, Bruno shares valuable insights and tangible tips for web3 builders - it is full of gems!  Bruno generously shares the story of Synapse (including buying an x-ray machine, getting executives to test it out in their backyard, doing million dollar revenue and eventually getting acquired by Palantir!).  Bruno also shares the story of how they are building Magna; including pivoting, picking the right problem to solve and then raising $17M from investors.  Connect with Bruno at: (https://twitter.com/BunchuBets)https://twitter.com/Bfaviero

CPG Genius Call #27: Starbucks Odyssey - Fireside Chat & Q+A with Joe O’Rourke (‘Bunchu’), Co-Founder of Forum3  Date: Wed 7 June Time: 9am PT/5pm UTC Joe O'Rourke is a community builder and web3 strategist who co-founded Forum3 and dGen Network.  Forum3, is a strategic partner for web3 companies that are building, designing and executing in the space. The co-founders of Forum3 are Adam Brotman, former Chief Digital Officer at Starbucks, Andy Sack and Joe O’Rourke.  Forum3 was instrumental in the launch of Starbucks Odyssey and in this genius call Joe shares insight and learnings from this experience.  Joe covers his journey into web3, the lightbulb moment that led to Forum3, insights from the Starbucks Odyssey launch, using web3 to capture intangible + valuable brand value, customer loyalty innovation using web3, the ‘changing customer’ and much more.  Connect with Joe at: (https://twitter.com/BunchuBets)https://twitter.com/BunchuBets

Session 4: Ideation group Crypto Packaged Goods is proud to present Pitch Week: the CPG Accelerator’s culmination of almost three months of intensive work that has helped over 100 startups propel their businesses forward. Now, 42 of those startups across three different stages, Ideation, Building, and Growth, are ready to present their business concepts to our distinguished panel of investors. Watch to learn, and watch to cheer on your colleagues over two exciting days. Twelve finalists will move on to the Finale on Monday, May 22, when voting opens for the community to award $25K in cash prizes. Details for voting and watching the Pitch Show Finale will be released separately.