Hi, we are recording. Hey everybody, thanks for coming. The inviting up our guests and our co-hosts just a moment after math. Good morning. We invite you up.
And then let me shoot an invite over to LC. So we can have her come up as well. Air the URL see. Thank you.
Morning, David, how are you doing? (birds chirping)
Hey, I'll see how are you?
I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. Okay, perfect. Make sure everyone can hear me, right? We lose after.
Thanks, LC. It's something weird when it invited me, like it, I don't know, but it dropped me down to listener and then it seems okay now. All right.
It works that time. It did work that time. Thank you so much. Awesome. Great to chat with you. I had to leave and come back. Technology is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't always work perfectly. It's different here. Technology works generally well everywhere
up to quite a few spaces or I'll call them dode spaces now. That's not what I have to see with icons. Yeah, no, it's so true. I actually got an I'm on an Android, but I got an iPhone originally in addition exclusively for Clubhouse and then Clubhouse had it Android.
Yeah, it's hard to keep up and like know what they're gonna do next and I'm just excited that all right we've got everybody here. What's up there? So go peril and if you have all right let's go ahead and just kick it off. It's not wasting any time. Good morning. Good afternoon.
and a good evening, Wax fam. Thank you for joining us today for our first Twitter spaces in this April. I am Tommy from Wax and today I am joined by my co-host, Alexey too. Alexey is a lifelong gamer with a zest for new technology. She's also a content writer for the D20 on Wax Medium page. Alexey, how are you doing today?
I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. I'm really excited to hear more about Aftermath Island and Elkot. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. Thank you for joining us. All right. So everyone else today we have a special guest, David Lukach. Am I pronouncing that correct, David?
You got it perfectly. Thank you. Thank you. He is the co founder, president, director and chair of liquid avatar technologies incorporated. He's the co founder and managing director of aftermath islands and an official member of the Forbes Business Council, the Rolling Stone Culture Council, and the coin, the coin telegraph in the
start his career at the emergence of desktop publishing in the mid 1980s and as an early internet adopter, David has spent more than 35 years in the international marketing arena with over 20 years of that developing online business concepts and technologies and taking them to market.
David has held senior management posts and directorship of both private and public media and technology firms. And throughout his business career, he has been an active supporter of numerous organizations and has been recognized and awarded internationally for his service and community support activities. David, thank you for joining us today.
Wow, that sounded really impressive. Is that me? It was quite a mouthful. Is there anything else you might have missed or did you cover in your introduction that you'd like to share with everyone here? Sure, I'm a lifelong comic book collector and a Pub Culture fan. And a gamer. And a gamer. What's your favorite comic book?
Well, I was born a month before Spider-Man came out, so it would have to be Spider-Man. Very cool. Very good.
All right, well, we're gonna get into the questions I'll say.
Yep, I'm ready. So I guess I'll start out with a question. But you have a pretty diverse leadership team. Can you share just a little bit about how you all came together? Like what is your origin story?
of everybody that's on your team. How did aftermath islands come to be? Wow, that sounds like the expanse. I'm going to do that. That's cool. So some of us have been together for over 30 years. We've been involved in everything from literally the start at print tack all the way through
to e-commerce and really then into the entertainment sports space and now into the last seven years in blockchain. And really our team has come together through initially through collaboration and like my
We have the same outlook and philosophy as ourselves where the customers come first and tech is an enabler to create new opportunities for consumers to engage with brands.
Beautiful. That's really, I like hearing like everyone can kind of get together and coalesce through different brands and think when you have a little bit of experience from all over and you can draw on that, you can really create something really special. Yeah, you know,
Experience is a really cool thing. You need some to get some but at the end of the day, you know, I've been very fortunate I also this industry has been amazing because well I like to say if you're a golfer I might be on the 15th hole You know most people who are in this industry are on the fourth. I mean, it's it's really an amazing opportunity
to learn from young entrepreneurs and individuals in the space who may not have the gray hair that I do, but definitely have such a plethora of experience in this space that it's amazing to hear what people are doing. Yeah, I 100% agree. Let's dive in.