192. Today, We’re Announcing Something Big…

Thank you.

Should I do the intro or just go straight? Crack into it?

Do the intro, yeah.

Welcome back to another episode of the Ben and Bergs podcast. I'm Ben, your favorite high school dropout and founder of Collective Shift. Alongside me as Bergs, your favorite MBA and CEO of Collective Shift. Join us as we bring you world class crypto research and strategies to help you dominate this crypto bull market as well as behind the scenes view of us scaling the best crypto research company here in Australia. And and if you like the podcast, we'd love for you to leave us a follow if you're on your favorite podcasting app or subscribe if you are on YouTube. Because today folks we are launching the one biggest event. I'm calling biggest event of the year Bugs.

The one biggest.

The one biggest event of the year. You heard it here first, the Crypto Investor Growth summit hosted by Collective Shift. Completely free event, guys. We've got 30 plus speakers, virtual event online, 30 plus speakers hand curated by myself and the team. No sponsors, no ads. And it's going to be the ultimate event for those, for those of you that are in crypto looking to really gain some powerful strategies and frameworks from the best investors and analysts in Australia to transform the way you're approaching this bull market. Because this bull market is different to the previous Bergs to absolutely nail this cycle being formed to make bank. And I'm so excited because bergs, no other event that I know of is this big, that has the lineup that we have, that's completely free, that you can join anywhere in the world.

It's amazing you can join live. We're gonna set it up on Zoom, mate. We're gonna have squillions of people in there and we're aiming to restream it across socials as well.

Yep.

And mate, usually when you go to like one of these events you have to fly there, you have to pay money. If you're a speaker, you can't, you can't really speak your mind all the time. There's different sponsors there, you don't really want to, you know, shielding their stuff like yeah, it's. And there's a whole bunch of nonsense with this. It is no nonsense. People are going to speak their minds, you can ask them questions and mate, I've got the page up here. This lineup is insane. How on earth did you get these people to agree and come and speak at this?

So we'll read off some of the headline speakers. So we've got first of all Susano who's been on the podcast.

Absolutely lad.

Ethereum educator, Epic. We've got Checkmate from Check on Chain, the best bitcoin analyst in the world. We've got Zeneca from Zen Academy. All these guys have been on the podcast. Zanikis is going to drop some absolute just words of wisdom.

Oh, I love the way he's just his philosophical outlook on life but then at the same time he's absolutely degenerate and gets after. I love it.

I love it. We've got Chris Judd who runs Judd Invest, Multi million dollar fund X AFL superstar. Absolutely epic. We've got Clouted and Gami who are. And Tom Mitchell Hill who are going to be on a meme coin panel who just going to drop some, some absolute diamonds in the, in the meme coin space. We've got Tory west, the Olympian. We've got Henrik from Apollo Capital. We've got Lisa Tay from Mooning. Tracy from Bamboo. We've got Samira from Elbait. You know, got Adrian Forza. Adrian Forza, Crypto Tax Australia.

Nathan Gurr.

Nathan Gurr from Polygon Ventures. We've got all the collective shift team.

Bill Brockoff as well.

Bill Brockoff, Olympic snowboarder. We have got an absolute epic lineup. That's not everyone as well by the way. We're going to keep a couple of our sleeve for the, for the second speaker announcement. But look, if you are wanting to really just, you know, get a lay of the land of all different sectors, we're going to be launching sort of releasing the agenda close to the time but we're basically going to have Berg's like topics on it. Everything you need, everything from portfolio structures and strategies, high net wealth sessions, defi sessions. We going to have things like AI deep sorry AI defi dpin, rwas macro meme coins 4 year cycles. We're going to have Bitcoin and Ethereum sessions, altcoin sessions like all completely online so you can sit down and just take it all in and just learn from the best.

And I can see at least three VCs there that actively invest in crypto companies so they can tell you what's going on behind closed doors, what people are building.

Yeah.

What the future is going to look like.

And again this is not a sales session. This is a no ad space. No one's being, no one's paying to be on here. No shilling with coins. This is exactly what you expect from Usbergs. It's, it's insights, it's, it's transparent, it's Independent. And it's just going to be the best.

So it's going to be a lot of fun and you're going to learn heaps. And Ben, let's talk about how this came about, mate. Because you know Ben, Ben, he just sits down. He gets a little bit twitchy, mate. He gets bored. You don't even have your little rings.

Yeah, I do. I didn't want to annoy people with a little.

He's got a new fidget toy. It makes him very happy. So he pitches this idea to me. He's like, mate, we're gonna have a summit. It's gonna be amazing. We're gonna have all these people, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that, we're gonna do that. And I'm like, no, we're not doing it, mate. Sounds ridiculous. It's gonna cost so much money, it's stupid. But then he actually tells me about half an hour to call the critical part. It's gonna be online.

And we don't need. We don't need a huge space. And then we're like, okay, we'll think about it. And a week later, he's like, yeah, we got 30 people sign up.

Let's go. So, really quickly, I'll put the link in the description below for those who want to check out. It's actually December 5th, so Australian time. Sorry, Melbourne, Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time. It'll be 9am onwards. It's going to go for about five hours, maybe six hours, depending. And you can sort of bump in and bump out whenever you like. But we'll put the link in the description below or go to CollectiveShift IO Summit to secure your spot. We do have limited. We do have limited seats. Physically, we've. We've capped this because it is free. And the. The amount of seats that Zoom allow us on the webinars is literally capped. So get in there.

Zoom is costing us an absolute bomb.

To run this in all of this.

I saw the bill and I nearly swore at Ben just going, mate, what is going on? And that's after, like, a big discount from Zoom. It is ridiculous.

But I'm doing it for you. I'm doing it for you guys. So please, please jump on and register. It's going to be epic. So how it came about is essentially like, I've been to so many conferences. I've been to, you know, permissionless. I've been to Bitcoin Miami. I've been token 2049. I've been to. There's another one what's the other one?

Oz. Cryptocon here.

Yeah, I've been all.

You mean like F Denver or whatever.

I've been to Dubai Blockchain week. I've been to them. All right. And they're expensive. They are epic, by the way. Don't get me wrong. Awesome. And I love that in person experience. But a lot of them are pay to play. So what you don't know behind the scenes is a lot of those speakers you have to pay to speak ours. I had this idea of bringing the best because we are essentially friends with a lot of people, right? I know a lot of people, they've been on the podcast, we've been around for a long time. We have the brand, we had the recognition. And I wanted to pick and the team that we have wanted to pick who were the best speakers to have on this summit. Who would deliver the most value based on the topics we want to speak about.

This is exactly it. We want to talk about this thing. Who is the best, who is in this space and more importantly, who are the independent people in that space?

And this is the difference Bergs. We wanted to talk about these nine topics, so we went out and hand selected who we wanted. Traditional conferences are like, who's going to pay us money? And then we'll come up with some topic so you can come and show your shit.

You only get a keynote speech if you spend 50 grand.

Correct.

Or you spend like 200 grand on a big boost, set up, whatever it may be.

And then they charge the guests, you know, a token US$600 to come and attend. That's $1,000 a ticket.

And this is the thing. So those models are great, but they're not accessible to everyone. And this is what we're about. We're about connectedness, we're about community. And we're just about spreading the word of crypto from many different people and many different ideas. And this is the best way for us to be able to do that 100%.

So we, we put it together, reach out to, you know, the, the people that we wanted to bring on. Literally everyone basically said yes. You know, a couple couldn't make it because of the Tate and time and whatever else. But, you know, we're so excited to have these speakers on board. We've got our partners on board. It's just going to be an epic day. And obviously you're probably thinking, what the hell do we get out of this? Well, obviously as, as a business, you know, we're a content research first company, so as you come and attend, we're gonna be able to continue to deliver, you know, research and insights to you. And then some of you afterwards might go, oh, wow, that was actually really good. I wanna become a member. So that is, that is the business model behind us, like, you know, fully transparent upfront. We wanna give you as much value as we humanly can through this event. Some of you are gonna go, awesome, that was amazing. I'm gonna go back to my life and some of you are gonna go, that was epic. What else do these guys do? And that's where we're gonna share with you what we do on the platform as well.

Yeah, it's a good chance for us to show off our network and the capability. And just looking at panels are going to be wild. Like they're really going to get into it.

Yeah, we don't, we, we, we, we don't want to share with everything folks, but we've got some exciting stuff up our sleeve. So these are very, very in depth, you know, very, you know, I guess micro level, tangible takeaways for these topics. This is, yeah, it's gonna be pretty epic.

And that's it. Tune into the people that you want to see. Watch it and I'm sure there'll be a replay afterwards as well. We'll have a bunch of content we'll put out. Yeah. After the event. It's going to be amazing. I always love these days because you come out of it with renewed perspective and energy. Like the things that you think in the people that you talk to. You're in a very kind of closed world or even your Twitter world. But when you really get in depth conversations with people and they feel comfortable enough in that environment to talk about things honestly, that's when the magic really emerges.

Totally agree, totally agree. So lock in your free ticket now, folks. Jump over there, secure your spot, Summit. There is absolutely a cap on the amount of people we can have because Berg's not going to let me get any more budget for the amount of money we gave Zoom. So get over there, lock it in and we'll see on December 5th.

It's going to be amazing. I can't wait.

Amazing. Awesome guys. We'll see you on the next episode.

Thanks, champions.

Nice.

Yeah, that's a good one, man.

That was a really good, good call. Great call.