Boys in the Bubble
Startups are supposed to specialize, but OPENSEA's founders Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah thrived by building a wide-open market for creating and trading all manner of NFTs, whether art, music or gaming. Their five-person startup had built a platform on which users could create, buy and sell al...
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