Coasthawk Talk

This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Teymour Farman-Farmaian, CEO & Founder of Slide. Slide’s goal is bringing web3 to the masses by making dApps usable by anyone, regardless of crypto or technical background. Throughout the episode Teymour is asked by Nick to dive deeper into not only the company Slide, but into the future of Web3 and its mainstream adoption. Teymour tells us a story about writing letters to Steve Jobs at an early age, and Nick looks closer into Teymo

This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Barry Meisel, the President & COO of The MeiGray Group. To start the show Nick and our guest begin by talking about Barry’s start in the sports memorabilia industry, and how the equipment (game worn jerseys) used to have been acquired back in the day compared to now. They dive into all of the aspects of the industry including how Barry initially started to see game worn jerseys as a commodity that could really be capitalized on, and

This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by the Head Coach of American Kickboxing Academy Headquarters in San Jose, California, “Crazy” Bob Cook. Even though the two have known each other for a long time, Nick has Bob talk about his childhood and how traveling around on a boat and going to school in many different places shaped him. Bob talks about meeting and starting to train at the infamous “Lions Den” with the “who's who” of early MMA at the time. Nick asks about what it

This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Michael Gallucci, the Co-Founder & Ex-COO of SportsMemorabilia.com. Nick dives into all things memorabilia in this episode with Michael, and the two discuss what led to the acquisition of the website by Fanatics.com in 2013. Nick asks why they focused on sports memorabilia instead of Hollywood memorabilia, especially since Michael had a website for that as well, and they also talk about what fraud issues plague the industry today. W

This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Brian Dzingai, former Zimbabwean Olympic Athlete and Co-Founder and CFO of Athlete+. Nick and Brian start the show by diving into Brian growing up in Zimbabwe, and how his accomplishments with track originally brought him to the United States. They talk about what it was like when he first arrived in America, and how his track career fueled and assisted his education. Nick talks about the pressure and fortitude that it takes to comp

This week on Coasthawk Talk our host Nick Swinmurn is joined by Lisa Fridman, the Co-Founder and President of Quadrata. Quadrata is a Passport Network bringing the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. In this episode Nick dives into a series of questions to really understand what Quadrata is looking to accomplish in the Web3 space, and how they aim to set a new standard in digital identity. To start the show Nick has Lisa dive into her background where she gr