⬇️ My Story in 90 seconds ⬇️ 🏫 In Middle & High School: From an early age I was a kid with an itch for always figuring out how to monetize everything, from starting my own lawn mowing service, flipping trading cards, setting up video game competitions, to modding original Xboxs loaded with 1000s of game emulators (this one got me banned from Xbox Live a few times 🤷🏻‍♂️) College at FSU: With my love for science I set out to be a Physician Assistant. To pay the bills I got a part time job in nightlife as security, quickly moving through the ranks. By the time I graduated with a Human Science degree I found myself running the biggest nightclubs in Tallahassee. I realized shortly I hated the thought of working in a hospital & building businesses was my true calling. I was REALLY good at it, maybe all the math & science classes gave me a unique way of thinking, but I took the half empty venues to lines down the block, 30k+ customers/month, 30+% revenue increases across all 3 venues, 250+ employees, & all under my oversight at the young age of 23. Story on how I seized the opportunity is for another day The Entrepreneurial Journey: While running all the venues, I had the desire to start more companies of my own. Dankbuzz was my first, news website that I grew as a one man team to 500k views/month leveraging all my marketing knowledge & sold in 2016. Next were 2 mobile apps that grew to 15k+ active users within 2-4 months of launch. During all this, I started in 2017 my own entertainment company SHMC, which I sold in 2022 Covid: With the shutdown & too much free time I took a deep dive into blockchain, learning everything I could about L1s, validators, NFTs, you name it. Then it dawned on me, I've been around musicians for a decade, always complaining about getting screwed on pay from major platforms 💡The lightbulb: I’ll combine my experience with running all these companies, ties to DJs, rappers & other professionals, & knowledge of web3 The result: A platform for musicians to distribute music, get paid a fair 50/50 split on ads, use blockchain tech to create a secure means for musicians to sell music albums with immediate payments, & reward fans for listening Thus Verse was born!