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co-founder @DeGodsNFT & @y00tsnft
Solana Beach, CA
Joined September 2021
9 months ago, everyone declared DeGods dead. This week we broke into the Top 5 NFT collections in the world. I've been on the team since we first had the idea in @frankdegods apartment almost 1 year ago. Here's my no-bullshit thread on the rise of @DeGodsNFT š§µ
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Hey my name is Taylor and Iām the COO of DeGods. With the @DuppiesNFT announcement today. I just wanted to share a little presentation on how we are thinking about the next steps to scale our community & team. The future of DeGods will be decided by just one thingā¦
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the y00ts engagement farming got out of hand. the reality is a lot of y00tlist apps looked very similar. super passionate people looking for a community to add value to. we wanted to make sure truly die-hard people who might get overlooked, didn't. 1/3.
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@frankdegods Hey, appreciate it. This isn't an engagement farm. you can literally unfollow me as soon as the accounts come back. (i write some cool threads sometimes though š„¹šš).
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still a ton of people left to y00tlist, excited to meet all of you.
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Bro tag someone who's been absolutely grinding for y00tlist. I swear if you tag someone with like one tweet about y00ts I'll have @SolSorcerer ban you from the list.
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I want to share our new approach on the future of DeGods merch. This thread will explain our thought process behind the Summer/Spring 2022 collection & what the future holds.
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today at the DeGods house was pretty great. lots of productivity, several unlocks. Things are moving forward in the right direction. excited for the 2nd and beyond.
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I'm sorry to anyone who felt like they needed to tweet 100x per day or shill themselves constantly to be considered. that completely goes against the ethos of the Scholarships product and y00ts. we're working everyday to improve these experiences the best we can.
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Nothing slowing down the y00ts rollout. See y'all in y00topia š«”.
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I sent 5 of my best friends DeGods right after mintā¦I better get a fire birthday present this year.
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According to @howrareis DeGods is now larger (in market cap) than the next 10 projects combined š¤Æ. Almost exactly a year ago we were crouched around couch while @delilahdegods drew the first DeGod sketch. wild. Love you guys so much. @finndegods .@frankdegods .@thebasedbob
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If the entire DUST supply was distributed evenly to each DeGods holder, they would each only have 3,300 DUST.
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In many ways, DeadGods was the perfect symbolism for the DeGods community. War-tested, bloody, battered and bruised. Unfazed by opinions or market conditions. Always moving forward in our own lane.
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building degods and being apart of this team and community has been the most formative experience of my life. thank you all.
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I was just standing in the shower when I realized the ceo of Solana dropped $100k on a DeGod, I swear we were celebrating a 10 SOL floor a month ago.
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I know it sounds corny but nothing has changed since we minted last year. everyday we show up and try to make the right decisions for our holders. sometimes we make the right decision, other times we donāt. things might feel different on Twitter but nothing has changed here.
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So what now? . Everyday is day one. Weāre just getting started.
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@mtx_hero @frankdegods @cryptosanthoshK @DeGodsNFT @y00tsNFT Literally not a single person on this team is driven by money. We drive 10 year cars and work all day. Everyone here just wants to build something special. But keep minting the next cheap project, and let us keep making money for our holders.
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grateful for @frankdegods. this dude is just as special as a friend and human as he is as leader. You changed my life in more ways than you could imagine. Love you brother ā„ļø.
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today is just like any other day. artists crouched around a table grinding to make exceptional art. devs in a dark room meticulously crafting an incredible minting experience. everyone else firefighting tens of unseen problems. battle tested team. battle ready.
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If you bought a DeGod for Christmas at 5 SOL ($991), youād be up +3,400% todayā¦. If you had just held Solana, youād be down -49.17%.
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But today is just like any other for @DeGodsNFT & @y00tsNFT. Same team, still working to create magical experiences for a bunch of internet strangers. A lot of new faces though. As corny as it sounds, it's just the beginning.
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piece of advice: . if you haven't made y00tlist yet, don't comment on every post saying "wen YL š©" or "check my app". it comes off as entitled & cringe. those accepted proved themselves by posting great content, having a proven track record or being a great community member.
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This one is special. @WayneRooney was a childhood hero of mine (like so many people). Welcome to y00topia š¤.
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āProvide the most value to our holdersā. Thatās always been the mission. And so far, itās manifested itself in a token, an art upgrade, a basketball team and now. @DuppiesNFT. Weāre learning as we go & we believe we havenāt even scratched the surface for what is possible yet
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just a reminder that @SCUMSOL @sircandyapple @pencilzwrld and @delilahdegods are working day and night to make @y00tsNFT the most beautiful pfp collection in the world. .
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May 19 - Reload. We were finally ready to announce our next collection. @y00tsNFT is the product of months of tireless work to create the most elite network the internet has ever known. Next week, a new story begins. If you've read this far, you're apart of it.
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Summer 2022 - DeShoeys. Videos of DeGods chugging beer from shoes started to flood internet. This has sparked some controversy, with some critics saying "That's gross!". To which DeGods typically respond, "Check floor price, bozo". This tends to silence aforementioned critics.
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the team started aggregating people in tweet replies to make them discoverable. & this strategy got overused (then immediately turned into a way for cheap engagement for copycat influencers).
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You can now purchase the de[basel] corduroy hat, even if you weren't at Art Basel.
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$20 shirts are now live. idk how long imma keep it up though š
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How do DeGods fit into this? . We look at ourselves as an early Disney or Marvel. We plan to build the best Web3 powered brands/IP for as long as we can. DeGods is our first popular brand. It will not be the last. The key: These future projects will all mint in $DUST
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As this team has grown, we have been searching for a single goal. Itās important that our entire extended team has a North Star that both navigates & motivates us in the right direction. Hereās what we came up with:
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anyone using history to predict the future, should brush up on the history of DeGods š¤·.
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I've lost money on almost every NFT I've ever bought but DeGods.
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if you've been trying the same thing over and over again and it's not working, maybe try something new? š¤·.
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Sep. 2021: Instantly Viral. We launched with one Twitter thread. It explained the "Paperhands Bitch Tax", a 33.3% tax on anyone that listed under the floor. Within a week, we were the most hyped upcoming mint on Solana. This video was made 2 days after we opened Discord, lol.
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Back to NFTsā¦. The reality is the DeGods/DeadGods artwork can only reach and excite so many people. Thatās fine. We plan to make more art to appeal to a lot more people. As we build new forms of IP & brands, DeGods & $DUST will always be at the center of the universe.
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new experiment. $20 tees. limited runs. link in discord at 3:33PM PST.
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update: @delilahdegods back with the family, adding some god tier ice on y00ts as we speak. it's almost like he never lost an appendix.
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Good News: DeGods merch is finally being delivered. Bad News: Some of the t-shirts are pretty fucking oversized. But you know how we roll. We're fixing it. Check Discord for the update.
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Next, we are focusing our attention on new collection(s). This is something we believe will create the most value to our holders over a long period of time. But why?
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This framework is my favorite thing @frankdegods has instilled in the @DeGodsNFT team.
A lot of people have been asking how we come up with our ideas for @DeGodsNFT & @y00tsNFT. This is a good clip that breaks down our approach.
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wait can we still make this though?
august 9th, 2023 was the day we launched "degods season iii". it was the day after - that it became clear to me the depth of the problems we had within our company. it started when we created @dust_labs in 2022 - a venture backed business - to create SaaS tooling for Web3. the.
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The only job for project founders is to add value for their holders, everything else is cope or a distraction.
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Hungry for specific feedback/criticism on the y00ts art reveal.
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I shamelessly want to get to 10k followers on Twitter, what should my next thread be about?.
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u warned them huh.
Been quiet lately, but ready to shut the critics up. Itās fucking DeGods season again. When DeGods win, everyone does. Thatās how we plan to do it. Letās bring this Solana NFT bull market back.
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April 28th - Fuck it, We Ball. DeGods became the first NFT community to buy a Big3 basketball team. Killer 3s. Shortly after us, GaryVee, MoonBirds, DogeCoin, & SnoopDogg also purchased a team. This year we didn't win the championship, but we love a good comeback story.
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Apr 1: DeadGods Reveal. In anticipation, the floor went from 10 SOL to 100 SOL. Many "sold the news" & exited at 80 SOL on reveal day. They fucked up. In the following weeks DeGods took the throne as #1 NFT project on Solana, hitting a record-breaking floor price of 333 SOL.
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Imagine 5 thousand internet homies all owning a basketball team together and absolutely obliterating a league for 8 weeks straightā¦oh wait thatās @DeGodsNFT.
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I have zero negative feelings toward anyone whoās ever papered their DeGodā¦just ultimate respect for those who never did.
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āSo DeGods wants to do a ton of mints?ā. No & Yes. The problem with most Gen-2 collections is that they: .- Dilute the value of the original Gen-1s.- Usually donāt *actually* expand the holder base. If we created āBaby DeGodsā or āDeGoddessesā we would not be growing.
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We want to take a āMarvelā approach to our new collections. In 2008, two superhero movies came out by two studios, Iron Man (Marvel) and the Dark Knight (DC). Both are regarded as some of the best superhero movies of all time, what happened after 2008 changed everything.
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Over the next 14 years, Marvel created dozens of unique and iconic storylines, appealed to new demographics and built the most successful movie franchise ever. DC played it safe, they made a handful of good movie mainly āguaranteedā to please their base but not much more.
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as someone who has talked to @frankdegods almost everyday for 4 years - he is the most calm/focused/based version of himself. nfa. let it go lower.
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Bro next DeGods event is actually going to blow everyoneās dicks off.
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Oct - Dec: The Death Spiral . Every day, I'd wake up, go online and see 50+ complaints in my inbox. For months. We tried to "quietly build" our way out. In 3 months, we launched 3 products. Floor kept going down. We were burnt out. At this point, we were close to quitting.
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I hope everyone can one day experience the pure ecstasy of getting a "de" role tag in the wormhole Discord.
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December: "Something Special". Everything about DeGods felt doomed to fail. We were at our lowest FP in history. Team was burnt out. But there was something special about the community. Even in the darkest days, they never gave up on us.
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Jan 24th: No Ugly DeGods. There was still a fundamental problem. There were too many ugly DeGods. Nobody wanted to buy them, so they sat on the floor. We had an idea. What if we remade the entire collection? This time we make each NFT a piece of fine art. DeadGods was born.
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Oct. 2021: The "Smooth" Mint. The DeGods mint sold out in 7 seconds. Before we could process what happened. shit hit the fan. Thousands were pissed they didn't get to mint, hundreds of DeGods got locked in our custom marketplace, and people immediately began calling us a rug.
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