Hi @Lanzer thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback! I don’t find your questions rude at all 
I have huge respect to all kinds of community builders. I consider myself one!
Follow-up question on Path to Opportunity. How is the “integrating students into YGG ecosystem” opportunity structured? As in, are they signing employment or freelancer contracts with YGG? NDAs? Noncompete agreements? How are these relationships handled?
To be very honest about this, we do not have a formalized opportunity pathway YET. We have shades of this in the form of seasonal gigs and paid apprenticeships. This is a flexible, community-based system to connect learners to real gigs and project-based work-like collaborations with YGG partners or brand experiences in The Sandbox.
I also want to highlight that YGG is building a group-based platform (think Facebook Groups meets Upwork) that helps groups organize themselves, learn and find opportunities together.
Rather than focusing on individuals, we’re creating guilds (groups) that specialize in certain games, platforms, or skills. This grant will help us build a dedicated group of Sandbox builders, ready to tackle creative challenges together!
A known risk with corporate recruitment funnels is appearing to give opportunity but then turning into something overly burdensome to be in and unreasonably difficult to leave.
The concern is very much understandable. Our approach is the opposite from corporate recruitment models: empowering community groups with flexible pathways, so participants can take what they learn here and apply it wherever they choose.
The success metric we have is the how many people go from learner to hired talent BUT we do not (and will not ever) require them to only take opportunities within YGG or with YGG partners.
Hope this is clear! We’re very much open to feedback while we are still building the opportunities part of things.