Afterparty, a decentralized offering that aims to strengthen ties between fans and creators, has launched a beta version of its events platform.The startup’s co-founder and CEO is David Fields, a former Disney executive who worked in the company’s strategic planning unit in the 2000s.
Among the deals he helped execute was the acquisition of Pixar. He later headed investments for former Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company.
Eisner has focused on the digital arena since leaving the Disney corporate suite. Tornante has backed streaming series like Bojack Horseman and recently acquired sports memorabilia firm Topps in a deal driven in part by the rising popularity of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.Afterparty uses a “Web3” platform, a
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