Steve Starobinsky Head of Partnerships at Pudgy Penguins

"We start noticing this trend about the collector couple. We have couples standing in line The most common answer was: we send these to each otherIt was the moment i started to see the collector couple"Timestamps:2:26 March 20th3:54 "I love what i do" @PudgyPartners8:00 How Steve got started before @pudgypenguins @LilPudgys 10:27 Favourite collectibles 15:20 The "collector couple"17:52 "The way you talk about pokemon is the opportunity here"21:54 The traditional industry 23:50 Learnings from Gel Blaster alongside @LucaNetz 27:00 Over a million people have played it31:14 Balancing acts35:56 "Its mostly planning" 37:00 Predicting trends of velocity42:00 "We met with .. that see what we are doing"44:06 @NHL Partnership 47:56 Owning winter51:00 Valentines next year52:43 Capsule collection 55:14 Licensing and merchandise potential This was one of our favourite podcastsWe got to learn about the internal machine that is Pudgy PenguinsA lot of what we discussed gets missed on the timeline People want to celebrate the public moments but the private ones are the leading indicators It was cool to have a behind the scenes peak for all the work that goes in to everythingSpecial thanks to a good friend @becca_nfts for setting it up