Odiggo Profile

“NFT marketplace for communities.”

“Our mission is to empower communities with better resources and add value.

Our values are what define us — we embroider them in our culture and make sure that we embody them in every step or action we take within the organization.

• Customer-Obsessed: Talk to customers — we exist to make them happy.
• Results: Think 100x. Get dreams done!
• Innovation: Try a lot of stuff and keep what works.
• Teamwork: Think win-win, be humble and helpful.
• Trust: Act with integrity, transparency, and fairness.”

“VCs and accelerator. Seed — $2.2 Million.”

“We were on the floor, me and the co-founder, and we saw data points that showed that there will be less books in the world 10 years from now if no one incentivized the authors. We thought, ‘What if we used the latest technology to incentivize authors? What if we help bring back all the royalties to them? What if [we] can get them to monetize by building communities and publishing on the blockchain?’ We searched [and] there was no one out there, so we thought to do it.”

“‘Odiggo’ was inspired by being driven to achieve a big dream or call. It means ‘drive.’”

“I think I was born this way. [The] first thing I sold was the snacks in school, and then when I grew older, I started an ecommerce business. This is the third business that I’ve built. [I] built an ecommerce business in NYC to grow to $100 million a year, now over $400 million, and me and my co-founder built a $5 million business that reached over 1.2 million active user sessions.”

“Yes, of course, it's full of roadblocks — but that's what's exciting! We try a lot and fail until we get to a solution. There is no way of knowing how unless you try. However, this is a sample of our challenges: 

• Finding blockchain talent resources, as the industry is fairly new.
• Build a robust customer feedback loop
• Identifying the fastest-growing and [longest-term] go-to market.
• Ethereum infrastructure is too slow in transactions.
• Polygon technical limitations — APIs are fairly new.
• Polygon tech-braking from high volume! 
• Prioritizing supply and demand capabilities.
• War in Ukraine — many tools were built in Ukraine, and now they have no maintenance.”

“Self-publishing non-fiction authors.”

“Our strategy is simple, we are currently onboarding well-known authors that are pushing their community to join the platform to engage with them.”

• “Revenue / ETH
• NFTs traded
• NFTs Minted 
• Active connected wallets (i.e., users)
• NPS / CSAT”

“‘The One Thing’ [and] Robinhood Snacks [podcast].”

“I listen to motivational music with no lyrics, the lyrics my mind makes to motivate myself. You should listen to them! I bet they'll motivate you! Yes, you! The person reading this!”

“Y-Combinator BookFace”

“It's full of challenges, and It's simply all about focus!! You fail when you stop focusing.”

“Workout, hugs, kisses, friends, and I enjoy working because we're changing a cause.”

Chill one day a week and charge.”

“Yes, closing my calendar to focus on one thing only, delegate things that will take a lot of energy, make sure to make the important meetings in the morning.”

“Ecommerce that I built. It taught me that one person can change the whole world.”

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