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Companies/Projects

🔗 Etheros Labs

🛡️ Techstars Web3

👨🏼‍💻 Founders Institute

🕋 Block Dojo

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Books

✍🏼 Writing

Random Musings

Socials/Online

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Media kit

<aside> 💡 Outside of my deep love for building companies, I’m interested in all-things science especially the quantum realm, 90s hiphop/80s metal, and vintage t-shirts

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<aside> 📍 Since joining Web3, I’ve traveled to 36 countries and over 324,000 miles, working with some of the most culturally diverse, passionate, and innovative BUIDLers.

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🛠 9+ Years BUIDLing the Web3

Grab more details on my LinkedIn or JDSalbego.com

Co-founder of Etheros Labs, a pioneering R&D lab at the forefront of revolutionizing DeFi and AI
Previous Founder/CEO of a top Polygon GameFi studio with 5 #1 NFT sales on Rarible and over $85M TVL in game tokens
Startup mentor at Techstars, Founders Institute, and Block Dojo Web3 Accelerators
Managed over $150M DAV across digital asset funds, crypto exchanges/investment banks, and other Web3 companies as an international entrepreneurial C-suite and advisor
Pre-Web3, 12+ years entrepreneur and executive within entertainment/media tech industries with A-list celebrity creators, venture funds, and Fortune 500 companies such as YouTube, Disney, Sony, Universal, and Shazam
Ecosystem builder: APAC Advisor/Director of Google Startup Grind, Founder of DeFi Gaming Coalition, co-organized the largest Web3 conference in Tokyo to date in collaboration with the government
Weekly on-air contributor live on NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) on FintechTV Global, covering Web3 and crypto markets
Industry Subject Matter Expert featured on NASDAQ, NYSE, Bloomberg, Forbes, etc.
Public speaker at 45+ conferences, including the World Economic Forum
Cointelegraph Contributor & Member of Innovation Circle for Web3 Experts </aside>

📺 Select Videos

Watch more videos on JDSalbego.com

NASDAQ: Play to Earn Gaming and the Future of the Metaverse

Live on NYSE/Fintech TV: Top Brands Are Investing in NFTs and its Paying Off

NFT.NYC/Polygon Studios: Empowering Gamers, Creators & Guilds in the Metaverse with NFTs

Crypto Games Conference: The Future of Web3 Gamer IDs

<aside> 📚 Some interesting trivia about me:

→ At age 21, I was Snoop Dog’s head recording engineer at his record label.

→ Back in 2018, in partnership with the government, I co-organized one of the largest blockchain conferences in the world to date in Tokyo (JBC2018), which was broadcast on TV nationally with 20,000+ attendees.

→ Since joining Web3, I’ve traveled to 36 countries and over 324,000 miles working with some of the most culturally diverse, passionate, and innovative BUIDLers.

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Rich Data

<aside> 🔭 *A vita educationis est vita viventium*

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." – Charles Darwin

"Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell." – Elon Musk

"Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see it." – Carl Jung

"Play is just another version of work." – Ray Kurzweil

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'" – Hunter S. Thompson

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