Previously working in Creative Comms, Bespoke PR and Advertising. Fancy moved into web3 as part of the founding team for the Protein Community & is now the instigator of RADAR.

RADAR is community reimagining collective research processes and delivering the future. Fancy also advises brands and web3 projects navigating the web3 landscape, is a stakeholder in SeedClub (SC02) and has written extensively on web3 models and the future of the space.

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Alexander Russell is an entrepreneur based in New York City. He founded Nothing Special in 2019 at age 24 to make the fresh, world-class kava experience available to everyone.

Kava is a plant-based beverage from the Pacific Islands that has been drank for millennia for its ability to promote relaxation without diminishing judgement or mental clarity. Nothing Special’s mission is to honor kava’s past and steward kava’s future in order to help people around the world consume less liquid and digital junk.

Before founding Nothing Special, Alexander worked as an analyst at Lazard Frères & Co. in New York City. Alexander has an MPhil in Political and Economic Theory from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Lenox-Conyngham Scholar.

He graduated with BS degrees in Finance and Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, where he led responsible business initiatives for UVA’s endowment and worked for the Nature Conservancy.

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Arabelle Sicardi is a writer and brand consultant who focuses on the intersection of beauty, technology, and power.

They pen a beauty industry newsletter and have written for places like Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue, The Cut, and Vogue Business. So far, they've written two books: Queer Heroes, a children's book on queer folks throughout history, and The House of Beauty, a non-fiction book on the beauty industry forthcoming from Norton, not yet available for pre-order. 

They joined us to talk all about modern brand building, their forthcoming book, and what it takes to build a career online.

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