Gregory Gopman
Gregory Gopman
Gregory Gopman is a San Francisco-based technology consultant and serial entrepreneur. Currently, he is the CMBDO of ANKR and owns a blockchain agency called Mewn. and is the CEO of CommuniShip. [31]
Biography
In 2017, he spent time learning about crypto currencies and building a distributed computing company in the space, "The Akash Network".
Gopman is a co-founder of the Akash Network ($AKT) and AngelHack, and a former Twitter Program Manager. AngelHack is the world's largest hackathon organizer and one of the world's largest developer relations firms, whereas Akash is a Decentralized Cloud Service Provider that allows cloud service providers to offer computing power in a peer-to-peer model[9]
He also founded A Better San Francisco, a community-based organization to help the city with its growing social challenges like homelessness, income inequality, affordable housing, etc.
Since the beginning of his attempts to help the homeless in San Francisco through the non-profit group "A Better San Francisco," Gopman has been an active member of the San Francisco charitable community.
With the emergence of covid, he was forced to close down his inexpensive housing enterprise, City Ships, an entrepreneurial initiative to repurpose aging cruise ships into affordable residential buildings, which he had to stop down in 2020.[29]
VR Worldwide
Gopman spent much of 2016 and early 2017 learning about the VR Industry and eventually building VR Worldwide. VRW is an entertainment company that builds VR Arcades, VR Arcade Operating Software, and VR Arcade games, all of which are on display in our VR Arcades.
He built the company with his good friend "Ben Taller", although neither one of them currently work in the company. VR Worldwide is still in operation today and is the largest VR Entertainment center in the United States. As of mid-2018, VR Worldwide raised over $5,000,000 in venture funding and are expanding the concept internationally.
Weekend Gator
In 2007, Gopman build "Weekend Gator", a bus company that went from Gainesville, Florida (UF Gators) to South Florida on the weekends.
The company is similar to Bolt Bus.
During the first operation, Weekend Gator sold tickets and made multiple stops in cities where there was demand.
After six months of operations, Gregory's partner made him an offer that couldn’t refuse and he sold Weekend Gator to him.
The new owner took charge of the buses and saw all the money that could be created and basically forced him out of the company.
He later sold Weekend Gator and his bus company for $50,000,000, which was higher than what he sold Weekend Gator to him for.
His Time with Twitter
On October 18, 2016, Gopman was hired as a project manager for Twitter's VR team. [27] On October 19, Twitter fired him. Gopman blamed TechCrunch for writing a "smash piece" on him.
The Creation of Mewn Media
Gopman started Mewn in 2021 by combining his experiences as a founder with a strong technology background, as a consultant, and as a manager.
The "Mewn" company, which bills itself as a crypto ecosystem development agency and product studio, was founded with the goal of helping crypto projects build strong communities around their brands through marketing, partnerships, and event solutions, allowing them to grow their market capitalization organically.[30]
Mewn already works with some of the most well-known crypto projects as well as ones that are just getting started.
This list includes Kadena, a layer 1 blockchain network that Mewn helped grow from a $200 million market cap to over $4 billion in less than six months, as well as Star Atlas, a large meta-verse play on Solana (CRYPTO: SLIM); Akash, a blockchain project that is building the first open-source cloud; Siren, a decentralized trading protocol; and Ethernity Chain, a community-oriented NFT platform.
Mewn hosted two of the most popular events during Miami's crypto week in December 2021: "Siren's DCentral DeFi Pool Party" and "Kadena Blockchain's DCentral Miami Party."
The "Bitcoin 2021 Closing Party @ Story" is one of the company's other events this year.
Gopman's philosophy in cultivating fertile ground for the entire blockchain ecosystem by playing at the intersections of frontier technology, events, and culture will undoubtedly be put to the test in 2022, which promises to be a year of challenges (and growth!) for the entire crypto market.
His Advocacy
From 2014 to 2015, Gopman spent most of his time learning about "homelessness" and starting his first Non-profit organization, "A Better San Francisco". ABSF was a community group that he used to launch most of his non-profit initiative work including the Homeless Solutions Town Hall, ShelterTech, and Transition Centers. Many of the things Gregory team discovered new solutions to affordable housing which in different ways, he culminates in his current company, "CommuniShip".