Twitter Space participated by Miles Welch | Leadership, Buccaneers of the Blockchain MINTING NOW, Brendan Ryan, Tech In Schools Initiative, Xavier Manuel, GD | ProDapp.eth, Aileen Simchuk, Aniedi, Liya Shen 沈利亚, B I L L Y, ⱣΦ₩ΣɌ, 💝HeartThrob_FAE💞, Joaquin Roibal, Tech Enrichment, Gogwa Martin Walusimbi, phantom.observer, Sushiwill25, PlanFile

All right, guys, we are back with Innovators Think Tank week number 10.

In my goodness, am I excited to have everybody in here.

This is What a privilege to, you know, 10 weeks in a row be able to on Saturday, you know, show up and do this with everybody.

For anybody who's new to the Think Tank, this is a place where we take anybody working on a project, an idea, a business.

We bring them to the front of the tank and we help them collaborate with folks who have a different expertise, education perspective, and what we do is we help them innovate in real time.

This week, I'm so excited about our guest speaker, Miles, welcome up to the stage, my friend, and thank you so much for making time out of your day to join us.

I bet we'll get Miles locked in here in 1 moment and no problem, sir.

And I'm recognizing a couple of friendly faces in a space from earlier.

It's great to have you in the Think Tank.

This is, every Saturday we bring in some awesome businesses, awesome speakers, and we do innovation in real time.

It's been over 30, I think close to 40 hours in this space of just awesome stuff.

So I want to do a quick shout out before we begin talking with some of our speakers.

And guys, this is recorded, and I'm sure you guys understand that a lot of, you know, viewership can happen after the fact.

And so this space is, you know, can be viewed up to 600 times, 650 times.

And so, yeah, it doesn't, you know, hurt me to just go ahead and get shredded right into it.

A couple of things I wanna share with everybody right here, we will have up in the nest, our Discord link.

We had a lot of folks, you know, who just, they can't share their project, they couldn't share their business today, but they, you know, the conversation does not have to end here.

And so you can incubate, network, work with all the big thinkers inside that Discord channel.

So, we have a couple of folks who are actually in that Discord, I'd love to hear from them and hear how things are going in that Discord.

We also have a Twitter community that lets you kind of have a pulse on all the tanks that are coming and feel free to join that.

So we got a couple of awesome speakers on the panel right now.

Billy has been around since Innovators Think Tank number 1.

He's been here ever since day 1 uh billy how are you man how are things going how's everything since tank 1 my friend man I'm striking out twice with the speakers.

Honestly, Innovators Think Tank has been a lot of, has a lot of impact on me personally.

From day 1, there's always something to gain from it.

Like whenever you are on, you hear a lot of important insights.

Like there's really a question that someone throws here.

There's really a problem that you don't have people bringing suggestions, like people coming up with very important suggestions that could help you, right, about businesses.

Like, even when they don't, maybe, even when you don't find the exact persons you're looking for, the exact kind of people, there are people that are always going to point you to the right direction.

So I'm really impressed by what Josh has been pulling off so far.

And then also there's so many other consistent people like me as well, that have been here like almost every week, showing up and contributing massively.

And then for most of other persons that are joining, I am like, honestly, I'm going to tell you this from someone that's been here for so long that you can never regret the time you spend here because there's so much value, there's so much things to share, there's so much things happening that you can learn a lot from, right?

Just being here, even if you are not building new projects, even if you are not working, like you're not a founder, there's so much to learn from it, right?

There's so much, the conversation span around across different things.

So I really, really feel honored to be here and thank you George once again for creating this, for putting us up here to help ourselves and then learn from ourselves as well.

Look, I believe that most people are working on a project, a business, an idea.

And sometimes when we take that to our friends and our family, we don't get the 2 cents that we deserve for that project.

And with collaboration being the new currency, when we have different strengths that can be met and brought to our project to take it to the next level, we have to take those opportunities.

And so I love seeing Twitter spaces as this forum for that.

I know that businesses pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a panel of speakers to talk about meaningful issues.

So the fact that we can do that here in Twitter with everybody in real time, I love it.

And Billy, you're making just an excellent point.

And I really appreciate you being here throughout time.

Miles, I appreciate you, man, for taking some time out of your day to join us as a guest speaker.

And for me, the power of innovation lies a lot sometimes in the leaders of companies.

Their ability to take the ideas, the wonderful ideas of the folks, the people that they lead and implement those and take those into action is so crucial.

And I wanted somebody who really understands leadership to be up on this panel and help contribute that perspective.

So you being here and just being such a great thinker, I wanted to thank you and feel free to introduce yourself and share any notes you kind of have to start.

I've seen, on this 1, I can treat, I'm gonna learn how to keep your open

I've seen a lot of people that have been on this,

want to contribute, I'm a computer open to take notes, and I'm excited for what this is.

I love that, Miles, and it's so great to have you.

I learned so much from everybody else in this tank.

You know, not any 1 person has the answer, but it's with our perspective, with our strength, that we bring that, that discussion to the, or that those questions and that, that part of the discussion here.

And I think, you know, I really just, you know, you're taking Saturday, I don't know what time it is for you to kind of come up in here and chat with us, you know, mad respect to you.

Just taking a moment, we have Zen in here, Damian.

Solution, I know we were in the space together earlier.

Adam, PlanFile, my gosh, guys, it's so great to see all these new faces and even familiar ones up in the tank.

I wanna invite everybody to request to be a speaker, ask questions along the way.

We're going to be cracking into our first business here shortly.

And if you can contribute your perspective and you have even the smallest question, bring it up.

Oftentimes, the quality of our questions determines the quality of our results.

And oftentimes, somebody else has that question that you don't have.

So let's give the floor to anybody new who wants to come up and take that speaker role.

I know we have some great thinkers in here as well.

So Phantom with this hand up, just a great value in here.

Somebody actually active, very active in that Discord.

And guys, again, that link is up in the nest.

If you ever wanna continue this think tanking well after we're done on Saturdays, let's keep the whole thing going.

I think it's important to have a place where you can incubate your ideas with folks who want to see you do better, want to see you succeed.

And when they've had challenges and problems that they've overcome, that they can contribute to what you're going through, What a resource.

I know he has a couple of points to make.

We're going to get some speakers up on deck here.

Hello, Value News and innovators of the think tank.

And you know, this is such a great atmosphere to sort of come around, innovate, and put your ideas forth.

So I appreciate you for creating this platform.

You know, I am so lucky to have kind of found this.

Wow, man, we're lucky you found us as well, you know, constant great stuff coming from you.

And even though this is think tank number 10, we're just getting started.

Number 10, you know, uh, I know it's a 10 weeks long, but I hope soon enough we're on, you know, think tank number a hundred and we're just still crushing it with all these amazing folks that are joining us, um, so, Hey, everybody who's taking time, you know, to join right now, I'm going to do a quick recap so that way everybody knows what's going on here.

In Innovators Think Tank number 10, and always, we bring anybody with a project, business, idea to the front of the tank.

We help them collaborate with big thinkers, folks, with a different passion, different talents, different perspective, education, and so on.

So hey, it doesn't cost a thing if you take a moment in the bottom right to go ahead and share like, you know, get anybody that's like-minded in this space.

Maybe we can drive even more real-time innovation, make some even better progress and even help people get some more value along the way.

Because as we discuss a lot of this, we can kind of draw the parallels from this person's project who's at the front of the tank to what we're doing and move in then Monday through Friday and go crush it moving forward.

So such good stuff here and what an honor to have everybody that's here.

Let's go ahead and get a couple more speakers lined up.

Buccaneers, so great to have you at the top of the tank.

I'm very excited to hear more about your mission here, what you're doing and to get some feedback from our wonderful innovators in the tank.

So we appreciate you joining in on Innovators Think Tank number 10.

Definitely not the final, we're just getting started.

So please, I'd love to have you just go ahead and introduce yourself.

Don't worry about talking too much about exactly what the business is, but tell us a little bit about you.

And talk to us briefly about what inspired you to kind of move in the direction that you're in right now.

And then we'll talk more about that direction and the project itself.

But we wanna give you that opportunity to speak a little bit.

And I wanna welcome up to the top of the panel.

We have Miles up here, Cash Money Cav, Planphile, anybody else who wants to jump up here and contribute along the way.

You know, collaboration is the new currency.

Buccaneer, I want to give you the opportunity, my friend.

Go ahead, give an introduction and tell us a little bit about who you are and what kind of inspired you to start doing what you've been doing.

Hey, actually, I don't know if you were expecting me.

I'm responsible for, like, I'm the person behind the account mostly.

And I guess everyone's bored by a backstory, but I'm just gonna say that it's sort of the family business but I've got at least 15 years experience in international investigations and due diligence, intelligence compliance, anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery.

So the SEC is something I've known about for a while and also my joke is like I was a philosophy major in college and I say I've been following crypto since Farmville.

It's kind of my joke, but like alternative currencies.

But anyway, I didn't dive in until I started working with the team in earnest.

And like like I think at the 3 month mark when I was starting to understand not just Twitter, but crypto Twitter, like I mean, I was using a handle from for my personal account from like 10 years ago.

But then I went to VCon, got a little overwhelmed.

It's been sort of a rocky start for me, but at the same time, our mission, I'm gonna just, that's me, that's me in a nutshell.

I was in a place where I wanted purpose, like after COVID, after seeing institutions sort of existing ones fail, like all of a sudden the matrix opened up and I was like, oh, this lifelong fascination is real and it's here.

you mind I'm so sorry, real quick, I just wanted to stop you and apologies on cutting off just wanted to say, would you repeat 1 more time, your name and then also your role in the company.

My personal handle is Lydia tweets, but I'm mainly on this account.

And thus, like recently it pivoted a lot to the Twitter account and stuff like that.

But I do everything, most of the content.

I wrote the white paper, wrote the pitch decks, press release, pretty much everything.

Wow, so you're definitely in charge of taking what is the product and the story of the company and communicating that across Twitter, across many platforms.

And it sounds like you've been writing some pretty elite documents, some white pages regarding all this.

So Lydia, I wanted to thank you so much for joining us, you know, in the tank today, and being willing to come and discuss what you guys are doing.

I think, you know, I don't know who exactly I was in a space with earlier.

You may know his name, another person from Buccaneer.

I believe it was Brendan, our founder and CEO.

So he was telling me that I was talking about myself.

And Brendan, he definitely has some very awesome concepts and I think he's taking your project to a really cool place and I really wanted to bring this to the top of the tank and have you share some of not only the project, but also your challenges and your role of what's going on.

Because we have some heavy hitters, some big thinkers that might be able to help you innovate in real time.

want to take a quick moment and just shout out, I see so many awesome people that are joining just week after week here.

Martin, Yazid, Darius, Park, Power, how's it going?

So good to see you, Adam, welcome back in.

And for anybody that's new, this is Innovators Think Tank week number 10.

We bring anybody with a project, a business, an idea to the front of the tank.

We help them collaborate with big bankers, folks, different perspective, education.

And what we see is real-time innovation week after week.

And so I wanna invite you guys to check out the Discord community, check out the Twitter community and keep innovating with us thereafter.

I just love getting people caught up, making sure that everybody in the tank knows what we're doing, knows what's going on, and they're feeling good about it.

So tell us a little bit more about what is the mission of Buccaneer and talk to us a little bit on, you know, what inspired the mission.

Obviously, you've been around and are communicating it, the whole story, and then exactly what it is.

So, So the big picture, the vision of it is to bring philanthropy to the blockchain in a new and exciting way.

We are partnered officially with Disabled American Veterans.

And so ours is sort of a mixture of an NFT, PFP community and a gaming experience where 25% of the mint and

in-game is all directed on chain are like as much as humanly possible, unfortunately, is something I always say.

It's all visible and it's all chain as much as we can.

And anyway, so you buy your NFT and then you get entry into game 1, where all 40 percent of all of the in-game transactions are then directed also to the DAB.

But a matching amount goes to a treasure chest so you can act like it's a game that you can play with the NFT and we're in our very first collection And it's sort of the first step in our mission toward, you know, reconnecting veterans and civilians, reigniting a sense of duty, a sense of service into your community.

And, you know, with all the mental health issues going on, It's just sort of like do more and have fun doing it.

And part of the reason I love your guys' mission is I think Web3, which I don't fully understand, and I'm sure a lot of our speakers, you know, may not have full experience with this, but it doesn't mean that there's not an amazing discussion to be had at the base level of what's driving this whole purpose here.

I wanna say that with Web3, with all the projects going on and all the people that say the word value, right?

They say that word, what is value, right?

I think in Web3, the only way a project is value valuable is if it has real world impact is like, how is it?

How's it impacting the real world in a positive way?

I love that you guys are figuring out, you know, in what, what had inspired you to drive change and positive impact for the veterans of America, which I think is an amazing task, to use modern technology and Web3 to do that, I think is a phenomenal thing to do.

I think there's real value there that can be supported by substantial growth, unlike some other cryptos, which can kind of just shoot up in price with no foundational impact in the real world.

So Lydia, just want to get some of your thoughts there.

And you know, what kind of inspired also more of you guys to work with the Veterans Association?

Although I do want to say that our founder and CEO has joined Brendan down there.

We will make sure to get them up on stage here.

So Lydia, we can let you go ahead and chat on some of those points.

And anybody along the way as we're chatting here, look, I don't fully understand the whole NFT Web3 game.

I guess I do a little bit to some extent.

I know Xavier is pretty deep in the computer science world and knows quite a bit.

And then Miles, I want you to constantly figure out how we can correlate this to being better leaders and how they can drive better leadership in their organization.

So just so you know, Lydia and Brandon, we have a guest speaker here named Miles, just an incredible teacher on what it means to be a good leader and drive leadership in your organization that effectively can take you to the next level.

So I hope we can find some points to get Miles in here and share some of that critical information.

Um, cause in my eyes, you know, with the law of innovation that look, you know, without integrating your innovations, it's just an idea.

Um, so Miles, I really, really appreciate you being here to kind of chime in on some of this.

Xavier and some of our more technical guys, we appreciate you being here too.

And anybody who's just joining us, we'd love to have you come up to the front of the tank as well.

We'll hear from Fansum, and I know we have Brandon, the CEO here, so we'll get rocking.

And We've got a couple on our team actually.

But Brendan, I think, should speak for himself on this.

Brendan was the 1 who really wanted to do good for veterans.

And he was really the 1 who sold us to the DAV, because it really does become about what it is you're giving back to the world.

Brendan, real quick, I just wanna say, I love this think tank because we can hear some of that backstory and understand more of what's driving, you know, what, what makes Bucking your, you know, not only impactful to the team, but to the world as a whole.

And so I love the opportunity to hear from these folks and hear about their stories.

We definitely want to hear more about what inspired you to take this to the DA, the veterans, excuse me.

Sure, so first of all, thank you very much.

It is, it's a Saturday in Chicago that is full of surprises.

And I suppose that every day that ends in Y is full of surprises too.

I wasn't able to catch the entirety of the question, but I can give you some background on, you know, I heard how you guys.

I'd be more than happy to kind of repackage it for you.

And I'll be as concise as I possibly can, which is difficult, but I'll try

I think in here, we definitely want you to elaborate, but I know the need for information density for listeners is so important, right?

So like capturing our points in a way where the folks who are listening can really understand that and not dragging it on is super important.

But just to kind of recap some of what Lydia and I were talking about briefly, Phantom, I know you had a point and maybe even, you know, Brendan will let Phantom crack into his point and then I'll recap and we'll go over to you because he's had his hand up for a moment.

I'll do a recap and then we'll get Brendan locked in.

And I just wanted to just add in this point that, you know, the point of any blockchain or anything is to tokenize and give, you know, action value, right?

So we are kind of creating these systems of like tokenizing certain actions and incentivizing them and giving people sort of a share and stake in that.

So it's about giving that sort of public funded, cooperative funding, like decentralized funding thing and that sort of comes with like structure and sort of traceability within like you know NFT and blockchain technology so that kind of adoption with technology has been happening but yeah smart contracts are pretty complicated I'm not gonna say I'm an expert on that so yeah I would like to hear more on that from the others So that's sort of where I will ask them to explore and give us a bit details on.

I'm really excited that you kind of have a perspective there that will yield some really great questions.

My thought here is, at the beginning, Brendan, what we were talking about with Lydia is understanding, you know, more of what's driving you guys in this direction to even start doing what you're doing in the first place.

And I was mentioning that, you know, in the web 3 space, you know, it seems to me that the word value is defined by real world impact with that project.

And if it's not, I don't know what exactly it's being valuable for.

Somebody might be able to come up and explain.

Value by and large, I'm not sure, did I interrupt you where you were about to continue?

I was just gonna repackage a little bit of what Lydia and I were saying, but I would love to hear your kind of perspective of value with this whole thing.

So just, just a small little recap would be, you know, Lydia was saying, you know, explaining some of her role on the team and, you know, we didn't even cracked in into the product exactly side of things.

We just wanted to learn more about what's driving the mission.

You know, what is the vision here of, of doing?

And, um, you know, you joined at the perfect time, So don't worry about being late.

But yeah, if you want to tell us more, the question before was, what's the story of why you started this around the mission that you did?

But I would love to hear your kind of notes on value as well.

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