An Interview with Darren Smorgon, the Co-Founder of Polemos

2022-01-30

The yWhales team speaks with Darren Smorgon, the Co-Founder of Polemos, a GameFi platform with guild elements. Polemos aims to become a leading decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focusing on a variety of crucial and visionary services within the GameFi space. Darren speaks more in-depth on Polemos and what differentiates them from other gaming development. About Guests Darren Smorgon is the Co-Founder at Polemos and Managing Director of Sandbar Investments, a Sydney based family office. Prior to that, Darren was a Director, member of the advisory ...

About Guests

Darren Smorgon is the Co-Founder at Polemos and Managing Director of Sandbar Investments, a Sydney based family office. Prior to that, Darren was a Director, member of the advisory board and partner at CHAMP Private Equity. He has been actively involved in crypto since 2015 and has a broad portfolio of initially seed stage investments, fund manager investments and direct coins. He Co-Founded Polemos in Mid 2021.

You’ll learn about:

Darren’s first exposure to Web3 technology
What is Polemos and how it differs
How seed investing in crypto differs
How a Web3 reckoning is coming and where the space currently is
What Darren is currently excited about

Resources:

Connect with Darren Smorgon: LinkedIn

Connect with YWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

Timestamps

[01:05] Darren’s background and first exposure to Web3 technology

[05:33] Seed investing in crypto

[08:15] A Web3 reckoning is coming and where the space currently is

[13:26] Polemos and play to earn gaming development

[20:11] What differentiates Polemos

[26:34] Projects/games that are looking at/investing in + differentiators

[32:14] Changing the value of NFTs

[37:15] The Polemos token

[47:20] Darren’s relationship with his dad

[49:03] Web3 is defined by openness

[53:02] What Darren is excited about

[1:00:55] Where to learn more about Polemos

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.

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