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 other It was the moment i started to see the collector couple" Timestamps: 2:26 March 20th 3:54 "I love what i do" @PudgyPartners 8:00 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 it 31:14 Balancing acts 35:56 "Its mostly planning" 37:00 Predicting trends of velocity 42:00 "We met with .. that see what we are doing" 44:06 @NHL Partnership 47:56 Owning winter 51:00 Valentines next year 52:43 Capsule collection 55:14 Licensing and merchandise potential This was one of our favourite podcasts We got to learn about the internal machine that is Pudgy Penguins A 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 everything Special thanks to a good friend @becca_nfts for setting it up