Founder Lore : 7/100 The founders who built a marketplace that created the nft wave of 2021 > devin finzer & alex atallah > didn’t start with nfts in mind > walked into y combinator in 2017 with a different idea > a token for sharing wifi access > but then something unexpected happened > cryptokitties blasted > a simple jpeg cat game > broke ethereum and captured the internet’s attention > most people saw hype > they saw a signal > digital assets were coming > but there was no real place to trade them > so they pivoted > what if we built a marketplace for all of this? > that became opensea > launched in early 2018 as a simple p2p marketplace > quiet for years while crypto moved on > then 2021 hit > nfts exploded > bayc, punks, beeple > suddenly everyone needed a marketplace > opensea was already there > volumes went from nothing to billions > and a 2.5% fee turned into a money machine they didn’t create the nft wave they built the place where it happened