June 01, 2023
🙌🏼 Anthony Batt, Cofounder & EVP Products, WevrLabs at Wevr, is an expert in the product management and the culture driving frontier tech like metaverse and AI SaaS products. Batt brings all markets including web and game development, community building, social and digital media to life using game engine, open source and web technologies.
“I fundamentally like building,” Batt said. “There’s no other place in the world I’d rather spend my time than hacking code, designing and building products with that people enjoy. I just love it.”
Buzz Media & Buzznet Co-founder/CEO/CPO - My early startup in social media and web publishing 2004 ~2012. Funded by Redpoint Ventures, NEA, Sutterhill.
While working in San Francisco Craig Newmark and I became friends while meeting on The Well message board. We started a small company called Digital Threads where we built the earliest websites on the web. Craig had started a mailing list and I helped him. He credits me naming it Craigslist. Building a web app in 1994 changed my life.
I worked with Kevin Kelly for a year while I was a creative director for a digital agency I started. We won agency of record for Absolut Vodka. We extend the Absolut’s artist spotlight program for the web. We selected Kevin Kelly as our first artist and created Absolut Kelly, For a year I took Kevin’s ideas from his book Out Of Control and made them on the interactive web project. He made a lasting impact on my life and career.
While working with Kevin Kelly on Absolut Kelly project I worked with Jeffrey Ventrella where we collaborated on genetic art work where users of the website could breed Absolut Vodka bottle art. Jeffrey’s ideas made a lasting impression me.