Devi: Hey guys I'm Devi! Welcome back to the Vlog here. This is our first episode
using our new format. Where we're gonna be sitting down and talking to the
employees here at WAX and learning more about their day to day. Really getting
into some details about what is going on here at the WAXoffice. So we're gonna be
talking to Evan today from WAX about what it is that he does. So, Evan tell us
a little bit about yourself and what it is what's your role within WAX Evan: Yeah, so
my name is Evan Vandenberg and I am the I guess the newest addition to the Biz Dev
Team. So, really that's you know in terms of Biz Dev we're kind of focused on
partnerships is really how I look at it. Devi: How's everything going so far me what
brought you on board with WAX? Why the choice? Whythe jump? Evan: One I really
like the content we're working on. I think we're doing a bunch of
really really of the revolutionary stuff not just like not just in gaming which I
came from a bit of a gaming background but also in blockchain which was a big
kind of like hobby of mine on the side and so like the content side
of it like what I get to work on is awesome and then people at WAX are just
like they're awesome to work with and a grind
everyone here is working their butt off Devi: Super, super hard. Yeah. Evan: Yeah yeah Devi: and
so being a new on the business development team and having been a fan
of blockchain for so long what do you guys have I mean you said you focus on
partnerships and sort of reaching out different brands is there anything that
you can hint at you know the little treat so to speak what do you got coming
up, coming along Evan: Yeah, I think I've been kind of warned that we should try to stay away from some of like the direct stuff
someone like that stuff but you know I think if anything it's really like the
best is kind of like yet to come like the stuff that's getting worked on right
now the stuff isn't development like that was the stuff that told me to come
here I like talking to William for a couple hours about some of the ideas and
things that they're working on and kind of like where this could progress. It's
far outside of what we're just doing today.
Like I think kind of this is the tip of the iceberg and it gets deeper and
better from there. Devi: Yeah, it really does there's man it's, it's such
an exciting time and and so exciting to be sort of at the forefront. I'm so
grateful that I get to be here to even like talk to you guys about this stuff.
So, I mean what are you in terms of your day-to-day what's going on for you
like right now I mean I know you've got some really exciting things that you
can't quite talk about yet I'm sure for various reasons but I mean yeah well day
to day what's it look like for you. Evan: So, day to day I mean I guess we can we can
talk about kind of like day to day activities but I think primarily you
know it's been Devi: I love the secrecy it makes so happy Evan: Yeah, I'm not trying to be like that
Devi: No it's great. It is amazing, because that's what that means that like
that's how exciting this stuff is right? That then I mean you can't even quite
it's an awesome. Sorry, go on Evan: Yeah, so
I think you know primarily when I first
got on it was very like heavy with blockchain kind of like blockchain based
gaming and so NFT ERC-721 these kind of like crypto kitties and other
tokens. Non fungible tokens. Working with those companies and now it's really
broadened into a much wider kind of like let's we can really apply these same
principles to you know the largest gaming companies in the world and really
bring like a completely new item economy you know to them and one that I
think is beneficial not only to the actual publishers themselves but like
massive beneficial to the consumer as well so I think there is like a pretty
virtuous you know business model for all parties involved which is you know kind
of rare. Devi: Yeah, I think like you kind of mentioned it's it's almost an entirely
new way to look at. I mean it's it's own economy in and of itself it's it's a
fascinating sort of melding of the digital world into the imprint that it
has on real world economics and like what's sort of developing with it as is
super super exciting. Evan:I agree Devi: But you say you've been into blockchain for a
while now so having said to me what to you blockchain is such a new and
emerging technology that it's almost sort of difficult to wrap your head
around the direction of it but for you I mean what are the most exciting
implications of blockchain it what what really kind of gets you fired up about
it? Evan: You know I kind of put on pause for a bit just because you know work and life just
got crazy busy and then a Ethereum got reintroduced me kind of like in the
the early you know pre ICO for them days and that kind of was a really got me
back into it. So, start actually you know mess around and building some like kind
of like Dapps and taking courses for Ethereum and yeah that was kind of
the intro to blockchain and then I knew I wanted to make a move into that
space and so it was kind of perfect timing with you know my last company was
kind of going through a transition phase and I left and you know it was kind of
dead seven getting into blockchain and you know it kind of was very synergistic
in terms of video gaming and that background and then also blockchain so
Devi: Well thank you so much for taking the time I know you out of your
incredibly crazy days doing what you guys are doing to sit down with us here
and talk but Evan thank you again thank you so much this has been fantastic we
really appreciate, we go back very soon and and hear about all
the new things that are coming down the pipeline so yeah Evan: What loves it
Devi: You're very welcome thank you guys so much for joining us today this has been
great. Please make sure to subscribe if you
haven't go ahead and head over to WAX's social media and let them know what you
guys think as always because they are listening. So, thank you again so much for
being with us Evan and Devi out.
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