

EP 199 - Irene Umar and Evan Spytma - YGG SEA - This Is Your Passport to the YGG SEA Metaverse
May 6, 2022
56:43
The Asia Tech Podcast welcomed Irene Umar and Evan Spytma of YGG SEA into the studio at Seven Peaks Software in Bangkok. Irene is a co-Founder and and Indonesia Country Manager and Evan Spytma is a co-Founder and the CEO of YGG SEA.
With the coming IDO of YGG SEA, we wanted to have them on the show to discuss:
- How Evan originally met Gabby Dizon, a co-Founder of YGG
- The early days of play-to-earn
- Investing in games and launching them on the YGG platform
- A Prime Brokerage model for NFTs?
- YGGs original investment coming from IVC
- Does GameFi accelerate DeFi
- Preparing the next generation for the metaverse
- The YGG SEA IDO and CopperLaunch
- Moving from a governance token to a utility token
- Semiotic.ai
- Irene and Evan's trip to a Buddhist temple
- The bonus conversation!
Some other titles we considered for this episode:
- Can't You Feel the Love?
- Did You Collect Your Unicorn Milk?
- The Guild Really Is Just Phase 01