Backpack: Creating Culture & Community
summary
Begins as a mystery marketing test around X NFTs mystery meme campaign and channels engagement by awarding an invite-only Discord with a blue dodgeball gif, curating ~500 core members who absorb culture and scale that energy into ~35,000 total community. That core group acts as rapid beta testers, shortening product feedback cycles, and converts social momentum into sales and attention — Mad Lads becomes top Solana collection — while Backpack wallet and exchange grow through distribution driven by that active, genuine community.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Community in crypto
- 1:15Introducing Mad Lads
- 3:21Culture via mystery and memes
- 6:56Private Discord to 35k community
- 7:58Mad Lads as social identity
- 9:41Community fuels growth
- 10:01Q&A: Fighting scams
- 10:43Q&A: Web2 to crypto
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