Answer: Probably Not :-) .. but do read on ..

People Sure Got Their Panties in a Bunch ..

You know, to succeed in this highly competitive world, full of people with plenty of good ideas, what you need is the ability to think BIG and EXECUTE on your ideas. Elon Musk for example could have been one of those big headed geek geniuses who got high with his buddies and spouted great idea after great idea, and criticized every attempt by anyone who attempted anything, and in the end attempted absolutely nothing himself.
But no .. he moved, he acted, he delivered!

PT Barnum

Before becoming rich, and inventing modern advertising, Barnum was a straight up scammer .. capitalizing on a trending fascination with the bizarre, and taking advantage of a mostly ignorant audience, he made a great deal of money, and arguably created an industry related to marketing & promotion. In the end, his name goes down in history as one of the greatest business men in American history.

His famous line, "There's a sucker born every 5 minutes." is a cliche, and as with most cliches they become so because they are expressions of truth .. it is as true today as it was back in PT's day. Is this the statement of an evildoer, or a free market realist?

You decide .. but one thing can not be denied, you show me a potentially great individual attempting to bridge the gap between concept and funding, and I will how you a person who can too easily be said to be full-o-shit.

But again, the difference between a scammer and a LARGE CONCEPT TITAN, is the ability to deliver on their ideas, not just offer up a great sales pitch.

Enter @matttrainer and the $ 10 Million Dollar Prize Game?

There is an individual @matttrainer, who has come on the scene, and after being NOT well-received has immediately split, but its a shame, because his motivation is align with the dominant philosophy on STEEM, and he is promoting crypto and trying to come up with innovative ways to integrate it into entertainment products. His company, Consumer Reality Services (CRS) was inspired, by of all things, the 1997 movie "The Game", starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn ..

In the film, a wealthy business man played by Douglas has a ticket purchased for him by his brother, played by Penn, a one way no way out ticket to participate in The Game, a kind of live-action nightmare constructed for Douglas by a company called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS) - a messed up concept, because there was at least half a dozen times when someone could have easily been killed.

Anyway .. Matt Trainer is a big thinker who has made a serious investment in Virtual Reality .. he has located his CRS venture at Los Angles Center Studios, a large independent film and television production center, and recently held a launch event which had some notable folks from our neck of the woods as speakers .. Stan Larimer (Dan's papa) and Michael Taggert .. and some others from Blockchain, VR, and storytelling disciplines. He is serious about what he is attempting to do, but will he be able to deliver .. I think he will most certainly deliver something very interesting - Something worth investing in? Well that's an entirely different matter ...

I am not sure about his background, but there is some controversy - people who want to do big things, and suffer failure, usually results in a lot of casualties, and inevitable accusations of scamming thieving or what have you. Still, the man is able to get and keep the attention of serious people, so it would have been nice to given him a chance - the CRS launch event was, if nothing else, a great promotional vehicle for Bitshares!

Check this video from CRS .. which contains equal portions of self-aggrandizing bullshit, excuse-making, half-baked political diatribe, but trust me there is some highly-motivating pearls of wisdom contained within ..

https://thinkbig.lpages.co/crs-vr-launch-event/

Also an Interesting Read: https://medium.com/startup-grind/3-reasons-im-going-all-in-on-vr-5f04ff39c20f

Having Said All That ..

.. Want to Increase Your Success on STEEMIT / Golos!?

Whaleshares is Coming! Set up a Bitshares Account and Get Ready!

Get Out of Your Damn Way and Push the Button .. Just Push the Damn Button ! ;-) (reference to the above linked video)

UPWARD & OUTWARD!​

Thanks for taking time to give me a read!
- @kurtbeil