

EP 176 - Geir Windsvoll - co-Founder Panya Studios - How Will These Economies Start to Interact?
Feb 1, 2022
01:01:10
The Asia Tech Podcast really appreciated having Geir Windsvoll sit with us in the studio at True Digital Park. Geir is a Founding Partner of Santora Nakama and a co-Founder and the CEO of Panya Studios. Panya Studios is a Web 3.0 studio building P2P Games, Live Shopping for the metaverse, and other projects leveraging unique assets. Geir is also one of the most thoughtful entrepreneurs that I have met.
Some of the topics that we covered:
- Raising funds while in an apartment and then from the beach during the early part of the pandemic
- Actually going back to the same island where he originally lived in Thailand 14 years ago
- Finally moving back to Koh Pha Ngan
- The island has become very international with a big blockchain emphasis
- Why he believes there is a huge opportunity for Thailand to build remote ecosystems
- ICOs, CryptoKitties and the birth of NFTs
- The rise and fall of Panya's original trivia show
- Using gamification to pivot to live shopping
- Diving deeper into Non-Fungible Tokens and how they change the game for Web 3.0
- Cultural literacy and cultural inclusion
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Other titles we considered for this episode:
- Fast and Painful Years
- You Don’t Need to Have That On Your Bucket List
- I Feel Like I Am Home Again
- We Thought It Would Be Easy
- Am I Really That Bad At Explaining Things?
- Content Is Still King
- Can We Just Change the Strategy?