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Success story of Board Ape Yacht Club founders
TLDR Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow, founders of the Board Ape Yacht Club, transitioned from creating digital profile pictures of cartoon apes to establishing a $4 billion company within a year by tapping into the NFT market, fostering a community, and focusing on affordable pricing and community engagement.
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The founders of the Board Ape Yacht Club, Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow, went from creating digital profile pictures of cartoon apes to building a company valued at over $4 billion in just a year.
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Greg and Wiley bonded over their shared love of literature and writing, eventually forming a friendship that included playing online games and discussing books, despite not seeing each other much over a span of 10 years.
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Greg and Wiley initially bonded over shared interests in literature and writing, but later got into cryptocurrencies independently in 2017, exchanging ideas and thoughts on the topic.
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Greg and Wiley felt a void in the crypto space in 2018, leading them to collaborate due to their complementary working styles and shared passion for simplifying complex ideas.
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Greg and Wiley were drawn to NFT projects like CryptoKitties and CryptoPunks, but it was the release of HashMasks in early 2021 that sparked their interest due to its artistic nature and the significant buzz it generated in the crypto community.
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Greg and Wylie decided to create an NFT project, the Bored Ape Yacht Club, with the aim of fostering a community through fair pricing and exclusive access to collaborative art projects tied to owning an NFT.
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club was inspired by the idea of "ap-ing" into crypto and was designed around a narrative of a punk rock world in 2035 where people who made it rich young just wanted to hang out and play games together.
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club launched with a unique concept where owning an ape NFT granted commercial rights and identity ownership, leading to a slow start in sales until a sudden surge in interest and eventual sell-out.
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club's success was attributed to its affordable, flat pricing, direct utility, and community-building approach, with a focus on an egalitarian membership model and revenue generation through secondary sales.
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club allowed members to have full ownership and creative freedom over their NFT apes, leading to various innovative uses and empowering creators through smart contracts and community engagement.
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club focuses on creating a loving, welcoming community while also expanding into the metaverse and exploring ways to onboard more people into crypto.
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club founders brought in outside investors, including Guy Raz, to strategically raise funds and leverage the expertise of seasoned strategists in order to build a well-capitalized ecosystem and expand into the metaverse with a unique vision for interoperability and ownership.
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club founders aim to create a gamified, interoperable metaverse where users can truly own and trade their digital assets, emphasizing the potential for online worlds to enhance human interaction and social experiences.
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Building tools for communities within the NFT space presents a rich opportunity for startups, such as token proof, to innovate and enhance experiences like token-gating events, with the Bored Ape Yacht Club founders expressing excitement for the future and a focus on company scaling and community involvement.
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