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

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.

Session 3: Building Group 2 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.

In this session, Patrick Workman from Unlock shares his approach to partnerships in Web3, focusing on the highest impact opportunities while supporting communities as they strive to unlock a better web.

Date: Wed 8 February Time: 9am PT/5pm UTC With over 1,000,000 POAPs minted to date, our next genius call is one for the books! We will hear from Patricio Worthalter, the founder of POAP. Patricio is a 36-year-old, high drop-out based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Patricio joined the ethereum ecosystem full time in 2015 and has been running POAP since 2018. We will hear from Patricio on a variety of topics including: building a ubiquitous web3 business, lessons and insights from growing POAP, tangible advice for builders in web3 and much more. If you have any questions, queue them up - Patricio is looking forward to answering them! Patricio is in CPG Genesis. Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/worthalter