Today’s guest is Mat Sposta Partner & Chief Executive Officer at BRAND X PARTNERS the parent company of Chibi Labs. Back on November 12, day 2 of our buy an NFT every day for 365 days, the very first project we bought was a Chibi Galaxy. So it was only fitting to have one of the founders of that project on as our first official podcast guest. Back on September 10th, I bought into a project called Chibi Apes because the artwork was 3D at a level that I hadn’t seen in NFTs and I loved how it was only a collection of 3k NFTs.  After a couple of weeks I got to jump in the discord and really loved the community and how humble the artist Fabs was with what he had created.   I was then able to meet the founders of the project Mat Sposta and HBizzle in NYC at the Beetle Documentary premier which is also where I got the inspiration for this project.  So when we launched Mint 365 and I saw that the next collection from this team was dropping on Nov 12th I had to jump in and I’m so glad I did.  In this episode, you get to hear the origin story of Chibi Labs which started with a crazy talented artist who dropped a collection of 126 3D characters in April of 2021 but then partnered with the other founders to scale the art and vision to the metaverse and beyond.   I ask Mat about the lessons they learned along the way including the importance of running an NFT project like a business, putting community first and even how valuable communication is during a drop both one that sells out and one that drops that the start of “NFT winter” and you have to pivot on the fly.   The theme of this episode is no doubt the intersection of running your NFT project like a business, innovating towards the metaverse, and doing so by always prioritizing community!  Enjoy this first of many interviews here on NFT 365.  I currently own 3 Chibi Apes and 3 Chibi Galaxy’s including this rare naked yellow Chibi: https://opensea.io/assets/0xc49a9ab342b6ea66792d4110e9ca0ab36e3a5674/2042/ You can also check out the Chibi Galaxy we minted for our Mint 365 project: https://opensea.io/assets/0x5aeb2a703323f69b20f397bcb7b38610ec37237b/3175/   Thanks again to our guest Mat Sposta give him a follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/MatSposta Also make sure to hit up ChibiLabs on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChibiLabs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chibi_labs/ Links mentioned on the podcast:  Chibi Labs are 3D ready metaverse characters … but are they  https://twitter.com/ChibiLabs/status/1470796038202171398?s=20 Chibi Labs 2022 New Years  Party in the Metaverse: Who's ready to break  @decentraland records on New Year's day? 10+ amazing projects + their communities = biggest party in Metaverse history!  Did we mention @aloeblacc will be performing! Many other special guests, giveaways and surprises Event link: https://tinyurl.com/5xph6ea2 ——SPONSORED SuperPOWERED by ADHD coin on Rally.IO get your coins and NFT at ADHDcoin.com Jump in our discord.gg/adhdcoin and make sure to check out our SuperFANZ NFTs before our big reveal on Dec 22nd at: https://nft.rally.io/fanzo/collections/mint-365-nft-passes