AMA with A&Q Community: Partnering with Celebrities and Star Athletes to Support Causes through Charities and Lottery
Stars to Heal CEO Max Burgio was invited for an AMA last 29 Nov 2021 to answer questions from the A&Q Telegram community. Max gave a sneak peek at yet another incubated project under StrongNode and Tkyo Labs called Stars to Heal, a global venture partnering with celebrities, iconic athletes, and sports teams that aims to transform the traditional charity fundraising experience through a unique blockchain-powered reward system enhanced by lottery draws. In response to questions from Twitter and the live Telegram audience, Max gave an overview of Stars to Heal’s unique features, use cases, IDO launch, innovation plans, and the social impact ecosystem. StrongNode’s VP of Operations Brandon Sivret also joined the discussion.
Learn more about Stars to Heal in these highlights from the A&Q x Stars to Heal Chat AMA episode below. Robert Smith hosted the AMA session.
The AMA segment consists of 4 segments, namely:
- First segment: Introduction
2. Second segment: Questions from AMA hosts
3. Third segment: Questions from Twitter
4. Fourth segment: Live Questions From Telegram
INTRODUCTION:
Max Burgio: Hello, my name is Max Burgio and I am the CEO of Stars to Heal, a social impact community of charity and lottery promoted by celebrities, star athletes, and sports teams. I am from Italy where I hailed from a family famous for the Antique Art Galleries. During my younger years, I was able to connect and interact with celebrities, fashion icons, and royalties thanks to my involvement in upscale restaurants and clubs around the world, especially the one opened up for the Millenium jet-set called “Float” in Times Square, NYC. This experience expanded my global hospitality connections that eventually led to the creation of Stars to Heal.
It is my pleasure to be here today.
Brandon Sivret: Hello. My name is Brandon Sivret. I am the VP of Operations of StrongNode.io, an infrastructure-as-a-Service tech company and innovation lab, and the CEO of Original Gamer Life, a Thriving-as-a-Service social impact gaming ecosystem. I am representing StrongNode and I’m here to support our dear friend Max Burgio, CEO of Stars to Heal, a social impact community of charity and lottery powered by StrongNode and another incubated project under the Tkyo Labs just like OGLife.
I am a 13-year veteran of the US Air Force, having medically retired at the rank of Major where I deployed twice experiencing a variety of career fields from Security Forces (military police) to Space Operations along with Nuclear ICBMs and ending my time as an Intelligence Officer. I served as a deployed Director of Operations for an Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron and a liaison to the US Army, NATO, GCC, and the Office of then US Vice President Joe Biden.
SECOND SEGMENT: From AMA Hosts
Q1. Could you explain a little about Stars to Heal and what makes it different from other projects?
Max Burgio: Stars to Heal is a global venture partnering with celebrities and professional sports teams to support worthy causes and charities worldwide through a unique blockchain-powered reward system enhanced by lottery draws.
Celebrity fundraisers are not new but Stars to Heal has so many unique features. For instance, our donors get the chance to participate in an innovative compound wealth creation program where they can grow their money, allowing them not only to earn but do more good. In other words, donors are incentivized and motivated to support more worthy causes. This is just the tip of the iceberg. We have a lot of interesting offerings not only for the celebrities who are in search of an efficient, secure, and reliable fundraising platform but also for their fans and donors willing to support their efforts and charitable causes.
Q2. What is the Use Case of Stars to Heal? Can you provide details?
Max Burgio: With Stars to Heal, users will be able to use the $STARS token to enter lotteries and win great prizes, interact with their favorite celebrities and sports stars while simultaneously contributing to charities around the world in a big way.
Q3. What are the present and future goals of Stars to Heal?
Max Burgio: We are looking at how NFTs, gaming, and social connection platforms can enhance the experience for all $STARS token holders. Currently, I’m seeking support from the StrongNode team on how all these exciting features will come into play in the future.
Q4. How do you keep the ecosystem going in your project? and what are your plans for future innovations?
Max Burgio: Stars to Heal is but one of many projects that make up the StrongNode community under the umbrella of Tkyo Labs. We are part of this ecosystem consisting of different interesting platforms running on StrongNode technology. StrongNode will provide the KYC, tokenomics, and the generation of supply and demand for nodes in a growing network of users and infrastructure. This will enable the rapid integration of the services and features necessary for Stars to Heal to thrive.
THIRD SEGMENT: Questions from TWITTER
Q1. Can you indicate a feature or feature that you like best about the platform so that it can compete with other competitors? What are you most confident about for your platform? Do you have plans to get users to choose your platform?
Max Burgio: I believe our “HODL-to-earn” model is one of the best features of the Stars to Heal platform. As mentioned earlier, donors/users of the platform are given the option to stake their tokens, enjoy an APY, build wealth and become more capable and generous in sharing this with a whole lot of other charitable foundations.
Here at Stars to Heal, we are on a mission to empower and support worthy causes and charities worldwide through a unique blockchain-powered reward system enhanced by lottery draws with the help of our celebrity partners, sports teams, and more.
Q2. Can you tell us some of the recent achievements made by Stars to Heal & can you describe in detail the current development efforts, such as market expansion plans, expected applications & upcoming new programs of events?
Max Burgio: Right now, we are getting the project off the ground. I think having the team and being able to work alongside the StrongNode team and advisors and meeting our investors indicated a great start for us.
We are looking to have our IDO launch and $STARS token sale around Q1 of 2022. In line with this, we are in the process of reviewing our litepaper and whitepaper which will be published on our website soon. The Stars to Heal official website is being updated with the latest version coming out this Q4 of 2021.
FOURTH SEGMENT: Live Questions from Telegram
Sanjider Dewa ID: IS this project only for elite investors, how about others with small funds, is it open to everyone?
Brandon Sivret: There will be fundraising done with investment groups in the private rounds, yes, but the IDO will include a public sale to allow for anyone to get involved, so stay tuned for those details coming up.
Community is the center of any good project and it’s no different for Stars to Heal. You can join the Telegram group for STH as well as the other ecosystem projects to include StrongNode and OGLife to help spread the word and learn how each project contributes to the bigger set of interconnected economies.
Juniors -X2: I see, StarstoHeal is partnering with celebrities and professional sports teams, What is your main purpose for this partnership?
Max Burgio: For years, entertainment and sports stars had worked closely with charities and foundations. Some of the international stars built their platforms too, sometimes involving international groups as the UN. The challenge was always how to interact with donors and making the donations with transparency and keeping the donors involved for the long term in their campaigns. Stars to Heal is the right tool for that as an international marketing platform that will keep the donors interacting with their favorite Stars or Sports teams and at the same time being part of an ecosystem that could heal the world. The cherry on top of the cake is that thanks to Stars to Heal the donors with a small donation could be part of wealthy lottery draws and they could change also their lives winning multimillion dollars prizes, or any sponsoring gifts in the draw as meeting your Stars or receiving backstage pass for their favorite concert.
Mahdhi Ismath: If there is a very big problem with a project your team is running and it causes a loss of trust from the community, what does your team do and what methods does your team use to restore that trust?
Brandon Sivret: This is a great question because it gets right to the heart of the challenges many teams face. The hope is that trust isn’t ever lost in the first place and you do that through a well-established vision and set of core values. Sometimes, though, a project has to deal with outside influencers who want to FUD a project or spread misinformation. The way to combat that is to keep communicating and sharing information with your community. There’s a lot of FUD out there about a lot of projects, so that’s why it’s important to always do your own research, but teams also need to recognize that they need to be doing everything they can to get their message out.
