Snake Nation

Snake Nation is a mission-driven culture, content and technology startup. We are HQ in Atlanta, GA and Cape Town, South Africa. We are empowering young Multicultural Millennial (M2) creators and coders to enter the $2.2 Trillion global Creative Economy on their own terms and build sustainable careers. We believe that an inclusive Creative Economy is essential to eradicate youth unemployment and poverty. In the 4IR manner we utilize people, platforms and places to drive new narratives and new economic models. The Snake Nation Network encompasses SnakeNation.io platform, College Societies and Social Studios that help M2 creators, build audience, distribute their product, own their narrative and drive value for their work in the global creative economy.  We have created an ecosystem that delivers peer to peer value and economic opportunity, as well as serves as a focal point for programs from stakeholders that access or assist M2's.

The Creative Economy is highly lucrative, monopolized by big corporations and notoriously lacking in diversity. This platform was created to help creators and coders of color, build audience, build and distribute their product and drive value for their work in the global creative economy. Africa currently has the lowest % of GDP (1.1%) at the same time, crushing youth unemployment (55.2% in South Africa) and the second highest concentration of M2 on earth is in SubSaharan Africa. By increasing access to the creative economy via disruptive platforms we can begin to increase the economic benefit to millions of young people. 

Snake Nation members will utilize the Snake Nation Platform to access opportunities to benefit from the Creative Economy. Through the use of social media, blockchain and digital assets we are creating financial inclusion and easing payment friction for the M2 banked or unbanked.
The new equitable  creative economy will be defined by the direct connection between creators, their audience, and value creation opportunities within the platform. 

Snake Nation focuses on engaging communities of multicultural millennials (M2). The M2 generation is the largest and most diverse generation to date and consti- tutes over a $3.4 trillion community of young creatives.  In their quest for financial freedom and creative independence, this generation selectively creates, watches, and distributes creative content in their own time on a global scale. The M2 generation has been instrumental in the global acceptance of change in media consumption, which has evolved from traditional means (television, radio, static website) to on-demand, online and mobile dynamic platforms. We have partnered with AASU and Liquid telecom to help facilitate this global vision. Our partnership with the All African Student Union (AASU) is to establish Snake Nation societies on campuses throughout Africa and the United Arab Emirates. This consists of 54 countries, 2800 universities and over 8 million students. Our partnership with Liquid telecom will bring together Snake Nation’s technology, content and diaspora reach into the creative community and the multiplatform tech and fibre infrastructure, backing and studios of Liquid Telecom. 

Snake Nation has founded creative college societies on 52 campuses in 3 countries in Southern Africa currently serving over 550k students. Via our partnership with the All African Student Union, over the next 18 months we will scale to over 2800 campuses,54 countries and 8 million Multicultural Millennial creators/audience, who have influence on 300 million more M2. 

We combine college societies, social studios, a digital platform & token, to create an eco system that helps Multicultural Millennial (M2) creators build their audience, distribute creative product and create value for their work in the Global Creative economy. 

Snake Nation platform is focused on creating sustainable value in the creative economy, benefiting young creative rebels, emerging talent, and established professionals through the creation of an open and profitable content distribution opportunity. The new shared creative economy will be defined by the direct connection between creators, their audience, and value driving opportunities within the Snake Nation platform. The use of both traditional and digital platforms for the distribution of the creative content, ultimately promotes unrestricted economic growth and freedom of expression for creators. This will enable the establishment of sustainable future careers for the M2 creatives. Snake Nation Platform is an application for content tracking, rewards, and ownership that uses blockchain technology to transfer value. It is an extension of the existing Snake Nation community helping to create an unrestricted global inclusive creative economy. The platform uses elements of blockchain technology to increase transparency of content origin, simplify the transfer of value, and reward value to contributors on the Snake Nation Platform.  

 The Snake Nation Network encompasses  SnakeNation.io platform, College Societies and Social Studios dedicated to Creative Rebels in Film, Music, Art, Fashion, Dance, Gaming and Tech. Snake Nations spends at least 55% of our gross profits with millennial creators and technology developers of color.

Snake Nation has developed an aggregated social media platform focused on distributing and creating value for creative content across television, digital, online and mobile platforms. Snake Nation platform, built on the Ethereum network, allows members to utilize the native VNM token to securely engage in p2p exchanges and creative content interactions. The current iteration of our software’s architecture contains digital assets, uses smart contracts and distributed ledger technology to enable peer to peer  transactions between members that access the Platform.

Snake Nation will utilize the Ethereum network along with its many functionalities to release the VNM token specifically for the Snake Nation Platform.  The Snake Nation platform is then rolled out utilizing cloud and mobile internet and blockchain technology to fuel the VNM token economy, ecommerce  and overall access for young creators into new pathways of opportunity. 

This allows for a trusted and transparent peer-2-peer value exchange of VNM and recording via a decentralized network for transactions. Cryptocurrencies are relatively new to the everyday ecosystem but are becoming more relevant with each passing day. They are a form of digital asset or digital currency that is built on top of the blockchain. The blockchain is an immutable ledger technology that records transactions through a global computer network generating blocks of data based on transactions. Digital currencies, such as Bitcoin and Ether, are built on such blockchain technology. 

The Ethereum blockchain, network for Ether, is an operating system that hosts smart contract functionality. Smart contracts are computer protocols that verify, facilitate, and enforce the execution of terms coded within the smart contract. Additionally, the Ethereum Network offers the ability for entities to utilize the network for their individual token release. Most commonly the tokens are noted as ERC-20 tokens. These tokens are offered to the public via a Token Sale. 

We see the Creative Economy in its current form as an impediment to diversity and inclusion of fresh narratives.  Snake Nation offers a solution to value creation and distribution of creative content for creators and consumers. We believe the solution can address the problem, where millions of creators and consumers can have sustainable, independent careers and we have a core competency in the M2 community via our network and marketing experience. 

current number: 570k (Network + Platform) 

one year: 3,000,000

five years: 427,000,000 

Today, Snake Nation is a Black Unicorn, on track to being a trillion-dollar company. Snake Nation serves over 20% of the $3 Trillion global creative economy and con- tinues to grow exponential. Our content minutes are in the billions, and the Venom Token (VNM) has become to the global creative economy what M-Pesa is to Kenya - and now- we've gone beyond the token. We dedicate time and funds to empower our community to create their own social impact on a global scale. 

We now have two major Black Unicorns Campuses, in Cape Town and Atlanta, where creativity and technology live, work, and play together. We are working with the most amazing young founders and creators of color to cultivate the next gener- ation of billion dollar companies. New properties in Lagos, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, and LA are coming this year. Because of Snake Nation, creative multicultural millennials all over the world have economic security. Snake Nation intimately understands and is built to serve this segment of the global market. 

We’ve created a highly entrepreneurial incubator culture, and, as a result, Snake Nation is a community that is constantly reinvesting in and building on itself. The Snake Nation logo is the Ouroboros, the Snake eating its tail, symbolizing self-sufficiency, constant reinvention, and growth from within.

For us the accomplishment our goals,  financial and legal barriers to entry might delay certain market entries.

Such as the legal complication one has with blockchain projects in the United States with the SEC. To access these markets, you often have to take on expensive legal representation, in addition to the technical costs of building platforms.  

We  need to raise capital for the continued development of the SnakeNation.io platform, marketing (digital, peer to peer etc), college network  and the production of content. 

We have been chosen by TrustLaw.org to be in its network of social enterprises that are matched with law firms that want to work on their chosen missions. We are currently working with some of the best law Firms and legal minds in the industry on a pro bono basis. Our supporting firms include:

DLA Piper (Corporate Structure) 

Paul hasting (Blockchain, Global structure) 

BLC Chambers (Blockchain, Global Structure) 

Bowmans ( commercial contract negotiations) 

We have also been focusing on driving revenue with projects and partnerships. We achieved profitability last year and this year have projects in the works with UNDP, Microsoft, All African Student Union & Liquid Telecom. 

The Snake nation team exist out of five full-time members, six part-time members and two contractors. Additionally we always seek to increase our network. By offering partnerships and collaborations if parties are interested.

The reason Snake Nation is the best to deliver this solution is because we understand the M2 generation better then anyone else. Having spent years in developing the solution, marketing to and learning from this community we are creating community centric approach that takes into account what M2's need and how they would receive, adopt and drive  their own solutions to the problems that face their communities. 

This is because we have the similar backgrounds and mentality as the M2 generation.We are a mix of  experienced, long standing creatives, millennial technologists and creatives from the African Diaspora we are looking to build what we know is missing and highly needed. A way forward that can tap the potential of the creative economy for all those that need it and are currently not able to access it. 

AASU 

We have closed a deal with the All Africa Student Union to roll out Snake Nation societies and our SnakeNation.co platform to 2800 universities and over 8 million students!  This gives us both an amazing audience reach and supply of producer/creators.  

Liquid Telecom 

We have signed an MOU with Africa’s largest multiplatform company (Fibre, TV and cell) to do the following:

• Be our technology partner
• Give us access to their studios
• Support our efforts on college campuses
• License content from SN community
• Resell their services utilizing students entrepreneurs  

Microsoft  

Microsoft is partnering with Liquid Telecom to roll out the Azure Cloud platform in Africa. They will be also signing a deal with Snake Nation for several points:

• Technology partners for Snake Nation
• Roll out of online Software Literacy/Certification platform to help educate 1000’s of young Africans

UNDP 

We are in finalizing a program with the UNDP to work with their Accelerator Labs in 25 countries in Africa as their partner. We will tap into the Snake Nation network, for insights to add value and help drive solutions via content, hackathons, events and utilizing the SnakeNation.io platform. 

We have a B to B business of providing content from and access to the M2 Generation. On the B to C side we provide an outlet for M2 creators to generate value for their work and access to opportunities with partners that want to tap into the M2's globally. 

 Snake Nation is currently profitable, with an eye on growth, sustainability and diversifying revenue stream, to increase revenue from its content and platform activities. 

Snake Nation platform revenue streams come from several sources, revenue sharing from content licensing, exclusive content subscriptions, commerce and brand partnerships. Snake Nation licenses out its member content and shares revenue with the members, creates exclusive original content available via subscription, receives a transaction fee from the sale of merchandise and content engagements within the platform. The transaction fee is 5% for in-platform sales. Additionally, Snake Nation receives revenue from brand advertisements and partnerships with the platform. The fee structure is based on placement within the platform and sponsorship type for feature competition. 

With an application to solve we can enlarge our network, create more funding opportunities and receive strategic advice. We are applying because we want our network and platform to succeed and we want to impact millions of lives. 

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