# The Colin and Samir Split

By [Colin and Samir](https://paragraph.com/@colin-and-samir) · 2021-05-10

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[Colin and Samir](https://etherscan.io/address/0xdD1E7d2D6549a45818c92A9398045Df74055CDF8)

For everyone who retweeted our announcement tweet and included their ETH address while our auction was live, you can claim your ETH by pressing "Claim Funds"

\*Gas fees will apply, and may be more than the Eth. Even if you don't claim the Eth, we will have a record of your involvement and we will ensure that you are rewarded as we continue to do drops.

**The Buyer**
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A huge thank you to everyone who supported this drop, and to the team at Matrix who won the bid, we can't wait to build the future of Creators x Crypto with you

[https://twitter.com/ColinandSamir/status/1389769762842943490?s=20](https://twitter.com/ColinandSamir/status/1389769762842943490?s=20)

### Our first Crypto x Creators Meeting

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ec3a17e393e7c9d10253ba8de64f398b610043c14c0ddc565aa8308ce425a46e.png)

@jzlegion // @YouAreMatrix // @TrainerLuisCR

**Lessons from Our First NFT Sale**
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We'll be recapping this full experience on our YouTube Channel soon, but we want to include a few key lessons we learned over the past week about Crypto x Creators

1.  **Be Curious** - Colin and I spent months on Zoom calls with people in the Crypto space (Shoutout Jess Sloss) to learn about Crypto and get a really good sense how Crypto works as well as how the community is building. This helped us identify where we fit into the world.
    
2.  **Value Exchange** - Selling an NFT is an exchange of value. Step 1 helped us understand who we wanted to speak to and what our value prop was to the buyer.
    
3.  **Learn by Doing** - This process has accelerated our education in the space.The Auction itself educated us on the value of DAOs... and we've already invested in a DAO as well as discussed ways to roll out education with Crypto-Creator advisory board: Louie, JZ, Yang and Anish.
    

### Interested in how we minted and sold the NFT?

Watch our YouTube video from before the Auction

[![]({{DOMAIN}}/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSXMM9Y1blk)

### The Auction

[Token #2962](https://etherscan.io/address/0xabEFBc9fD2F806065b4f3C237d4b59D9A97Bcac7)

Thanks for taking part more to come on YouTube.com/ColinandSamir

*   Samir

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*Originally published on [Colin and Samir](https://paragraph.com/@colin-and-samir/the-colin-and-samir-split)*