Join Club CPG and friends to explore how AI is transforming consumer products, retail and e-commerce.

Join the CEO of Dust Labs, Kevin Degods for insights from Dust Lab’s approach to fundraising, brand visibility, and fostering community engagement in the context of a bear market and the evolving NFT landscape.

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

CPG announces the winners of the CPG Awards cash prize, the recipients of CPG Certified, and celebrate the graduates of the Spring 2023 cohort of CPG Accelerator.