Who is the Team?
Humble degens with many tales and scars to prove it.
Mycaleum
-I've always loved computers and video games since my first Aptiva in '94. Spent some transformative time in aTx during 06-10. Grabbed my first coins in 2017, ACK! Worse yet, I let em sit there until January 2021 when I finally discovered the world of smart contracts and the DeFi explosion. Fate was kind this time around though as I began using Polygon mainnet during February '21 and have yet to disembark. Polygon became my home for exploration, growth and experimentation in decentralized apps and communities. That is still true to this day.
Ambitiously, I left a steady job in automotive service to pursue full time web3 community work opportunities in Sept '21. I was picked up by a scrappy startup named GoodGhosting and spent almost a year there before being offered a "can't-refuse" pitch from Nori to help them create a web3 presence and audience. It has been a privilege to work with multi-million dollar start up teams and observe as well as contribute to the tools required to achieve success. But throughout this career, there's been one constant shining star: Aavegotchi.
Aavegotchi stole my heart early and hasn't let go. Polygon is the only rival for my affection. As such, the time now feels right for me to become a buidling contributor of a different sort. I want to create a high quality NFT project in a frontier space that creates accessibility and awareness of an even higher quality project from which we came. By doing so, we help both ends of the bridged spaces.
I've been involved in professional community building, b2b networking, social campaign ideation and operation, digital and IRL events planning, entity formation and administration, artistic incubation, DAO involvement and more. I also run the Polygon Guild Saint George chapter to help expand users in the DeFi Desert. Apparently I've been buidling my toolset to deliver something great. Lil Frens are definitely GMI!
Smokescreens
-From Beepers to Blockchain.
Remember the thrill of dial-up, the clunky charm of floppies, and the siren call of Radio Shack? Yeah, that was my jam. Fresh out of high school, I dove headfirst into the tech world, wrangling beepers (remember those?), tuning frequencies, and whispering sweet nothings to motherboards. It was a blast, but destiny had other plans.
The corporate siren song lured me in, and for the past 20 years, I've navigated the labyrinthine world of giants like Radio Shack, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Toyota, and Honda. While the suits were comfy, something felt...missing. Enter 2021, and I plunged headfirst into the stock market, building a portfolio as diverse as my techie past.
But then, fate intervened in the form of my best FREN. He uttered the magic words: "Polygon...layer 2...Ethereum..." It was love at first byte. Back then, Polygon was a diamond in the rough, users wrestled with gas fees on Ethereum while in Polygon DeFi projects like AAVE, Quickswap, Aavegotchi were just babes in blockchain diapers. But I was smitten.
In a month, my stock portfolio morphed into a Polygon paradise. I haven't looked back since. So, here I am, a escaped suit monkey, a seasoned techie, and a full-fledged blockchain addict. This NFT project is my ode to Aavegotchi and Polygon, my playground, and my way of sharing the love that ignited in my soul. Buckle up, fellow adventurers, let's build something epic!
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