40: NFT Communities & DAOs // Arvin Khamseh

Arvin Khamseh is a globally recognized thought leader in the crypto space. His impressive background in investor relationship marketing for public companies combined with his success in NFT marketing has led to an international reputation for excellence. Since successfully selling out an Italian artist collection in 2021, Arvin has consulted with more than 400 NFT brands resulting in several multi-million dollar sellouts within twenty hours. He was also instrumental in helping another NFT brand hit #1 on Icy.tools, then becoming the #1 trending on Opensea.

Arvin has strong agency partnerships with some of the biggest brands in the online world (Reddit, Twitter, Quora and Meta), and is rated #1 NFT Marketing Expert on Fiverr. He recently partnered with Crowd Fund Junction – a new crypto-focused VC. He is regularly quoted by major media (USA Today, Forbes, Entrepreneur, etc) and is a frequent guest on top crypto podcasts (The Nifty Show, New To Crypto, and Jordan Belfort’s The Wolf’s Den.) He is also a popular featured keynote speaker and panelist filling rooms at high-profile blockchain events around the world (recent appearances on Arvin’s World tour included Blockchain Festivals, TMRW Conference, IFPX, Metaverse Week, AIBC/Sigma, and many others.

Time-Stamped Show Notes:

• 2:38 Arvin is very much focused on NFT and NFT marketing, which led him to several DAO projects.
• 3:52 Initially, there were only two or three DAOs in Arvin’s show, but it gradually increased.
• 4:50 For Arvin, asking the people behind the DAO projects is so much different than reading the articles about DAOs.
• 6:01 Eric talks about how other DAOs tried to avoid his question in Arvin’s Twitter space.
• 8:09 Arvin explains why the DAOs were unable to directly answer a specific question.
• 12:41 There would be a Twitter space dedicated to network state related ventures.
• 13:35 Arvin has a once-a-week show but everyone in his incubator is also having their own shows.
• 15:09 It is important for Arvin to have people with different opinions and views in his show. He has hosted a show with Bitcoin maximalists and NFT enthusiasts.
• 18:07 Arvin shares his checklist and process when managing his space.
• 24:53 In 2016, Arvin learned about Bitcoin when his friend sold everything he had to get into Bitcoin.
• 25:45 It was his experience with NFTs that got Arvin interested in crypto.
• 27:15 According to Arvin, mismanagement and lack of business skills were prevalent in crypto.
• 30:04 When it comes to NFTs, Arvin believes that it still has a lot of use cases in terms of storing data.
• 36:13 The reason why Arvin is optimistic with NFT even during the bear market is because the concept of collectibles will never go away.
• 37:21 If the NFT is a product market fit, Arvin considers it a good quality collection.
• 42:11 Arvin provides his own view about Vitalik’s tweet that Harberger Tax would be good for NFTs.
• 45:52 For Arvin, the future of DAOs is looking great. He also offers advice to people looking into NFTs.

Key Points from this Interview:

1. “I’m a, I guess, a proponent of NFTs, I’m for NFTs. I say they should be there. I also think we should have better, more trained people in charge of launching NFTs.”
2. “People don’t have that business acumen, so when something external is happening then they just immediately fold. Versus like, okay, if you’ve actually looked at the market, crypto’s been dead three times, it’s just not the first time. So, you would know what to do, right? It’s gonna be okay, you’re gonna be fine but people freak out because it’s their first time. But it’s also their first time they made a million dollars in 4 weeks and that’s also very cool too, but then on the downside, they don’t know how to handle it.”

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