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QuHarrison Terry is an entrepreneur who previously founded 23VIVI the world’s first digital art marketplace powered by the blockchain. He recently sold the Worldstar Hip-Hop Chain for 121 ETH on Opensea. And is also the author of The NFT Handbook which is being published by Wiley later this year.

Sarah Zucker is an artist + writer who creates interdimensional TV transmissions with humor, psychedelia, mysticism and the interplay of cutting edge and obsolete technologies. She has been editioning her work as NFTs in the crypto art space since early 2019. Her GIF art has been viewed over 6.6 billion times on Giphy. She is a Jeopardy! Champion.

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Selling garbage bags door to door, the seed was planted early on for what would eventually become long-term success. After graduating from Indiana University – where he briefly owned the most popular bar in town – Mark moved to Dallas. After a dispute with an employer who wanted him to clean instead of closing an important sale, Mark created MicroSolutions, a computer consulting service. He went on to later sell MicroSolutions in 1990 to CompuServe.

In 1995, Mark and long-time friend Todd Wagner came up with an internet based solution to not being able to listen to Hoosiers Basketball games out in Texas. That solution was Broadcast.com – streaming audio over the internet. In just four short years, Broadcast.com (then Audionet) would be sold to Yahoo for $5.6 billion dollars. His trade to collar his shares of Yahoo! stock received in the sale of Broadcast.com in advance of the popping of the Internet bubble has been called one of the top 10 trades of all time.

He has overseen the Mavs competing in the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history in 2006 – and becoming NBA World Champions in 2011. They are currently listed as one of Forbes’ most valuable franchises in sports.

In addition to the Mavs, Mark first appeared as a “Shark” on the ABC show Shark Tank in 2011, becoming the first ever to live Tweet a TV show. He has been a star on the hit show ever since and is an investor in an ever-growing portfolio of small businesses.

Mark is the best selling author of How to Win at the Sport of Business. He holds multiple patents, including a VR solution for vestibular-induced dizziness, and a method for counting objects on the ground from a drone. He is the executive producer on movies that have been nominated for 7 Academy Awards: Good Night and Good Luck, and Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room.

Quick to call out unscrupulous business practices, Mark established Sharesleuth, a research and investigation website to uncover fraud in financial markets, and endowed the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Dumbass Patents, an effort to fight patent trolls.

Mark gives back to the communities that promoted his success through The Mark Cuban Foundation. The Foundation’s AI Bootcamps Initiative hosts free Introduction to AI Bootcamps for low-income high schoolers, starting in Dallas. Mark also saved and annually funds the annual Dallas Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, the largest parade in Dallas and a city institution.
Mark lives in Dallas with wife Tiffany, daughters Alexis and Alyssa, and son Jake.

Pplpleasr is a digital artist known for her collaborations with various DeFi protocols, most recently she is known for her work on the Uniswap v3 animation, in which she raised over $600,000 for charity by selling it as an NFT, and subsequently inspired the formation of PleasrDAO.

gmoney is a crypto currency investor and NFT collector. In January 2021, he purchased CryptoPunk #8219 for $150,000, a record sale at the time, sparking the parabolic rise in CryptoPunks in early 2021. He is an active member of the community and a strong advocate for NFT's and digital ownership rights.

Matt Fortnow is an entertainment lawyer turned tech entrepreneur. During the early internet days, he co-founded Commissioner.com, the web’s first fantasy sports service, which he sold to CBS SportsLine for eight figures. Previously, as an entertainment lawyer, Matt co-authored the 7th Edition of This Business of Music, the bible of the music industry, appeared as a regular featured copyright expert on TV and lectured internationally. Since Commissioner.com, Matt has been consulting entrepreneurs and been involved in various startups. Six years ago, Matt dove into the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Shifting focus to non-fungible tokens, he has created the official NFTs for iconic brands such as The Three Stooges. Matt is also currently writing a book on NFTs for Wiley Publishing.