EP 176 - Geir Windsvoll - co-Founder Panya Studios - How Will These Economies Start to Interact?

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:

1. Fast and Painful Years
2. You Don’t Need to Have That On Your Bucket List
3. I Feel Like I Am Home Again
4. We Thought It Would Be Easy
5. Am I Really That Bad At Explaining Things?
6. Content Is Still King
7. Can We Just Change the Strategy?