Hi, and welcome everyone to our investor meeting for April 2023. Thank you everyone who has come and joined us. Please do share as always, where you are in the world, what is your city, your state, or your country, 'cause we do have an international following of investors here as well, which is great. I can also hear myself in the background, so I'm just muting myself there as well. As always, we've done this on our last sessions as well, we are going to be going through a series of different updates for everybody. We have got a packed session that we're gonna be running right now. We do have a Q&A at the end. As always, we also have Flora, who is here heading up our investor relations.
She has already given me the questions that have come ahead of time, and she is also gonna be collecting any other questions that we can be answering if you're posting any in the chat, and we'll get to as many of those as we can as well. What are we gonna cover? We have got a lot of activity that we are gonna be covering here. There is also a press release that's going out by the time this call is over as well. You can see the list of things that we are gonna cover here too.
I do wanna basically just start with something which I, I do believe is, like, extremely important for basically all of our shareholders that have been with us since the beginning, and those who have joined us since we actually had our public listing as well. Just to share that what we would have normally expected to do as a public company, after, what is it now, 1 year since we had our IPO. It was actually in April last year that we listed the company, and of course we were very excited at the time to be a public company in the U.S., as a foreign filer, based in Singapore.
We of course would be expecting that on our investor calls we'd be 100% focused at the growth of the company and the things that we were achieving and our plans, so our investors could be part of the journey with us as well. Of course, we have many, many students and partners around the world who also are our investors. All our team, you know, get to get involved in share option programs, which means that they're also investors. This was always our vision for the future of education, that we should all be a part in that future too.
However, as I'm sure, many people are aware, 3 months ago in January, we did make a decision after seeing what was happening with our share price, to come public with what we were hearing from ShareIntel and also, our lawyers Wes Christian, about what was happening with market manipulation. It has been 3 months since then, we have seen a lot of activity happening within the marketplace. We have been releasing a lot of information about our company as well. Here we are 3 months into that journey.
What you're gonna see with this session is the very first half is going to be what I would love to spend all of our time talking about, which is the growth of Genius Group, and we have a very exciting product launch that we're gonna be sharing, which is gonna be very relevant to all our investors. In the second half, we're gonna be more focused at the things that have shown up since January and the actions, corporate actions that we're actually taking because of what we have seen out there as well. I do wanna say this thing before we get into the steps, because we not only have our investors here, but we have a lot of feedback that we have got other CEOs who come and basically watch what we're doing.
I believe we're one of the few, if only, public company that actually does monthly live streams for investor updates on YouTube. I get a lot of feedback from those CEOs. We meet with investors, and investors themselves basically share that they're following along with what our journey is right now as well, as many of you are live at the moment as well. I'm very aware we also have authorities, regulators, they're all watching this as well.
This is really a message for everyone that if we go right back to January, when we had Wes Christian address our first investor meeting that we basically had in January, as our monthly meetings, he pretty much said to me, "Roger, you know, if you're gonna go down a route where you're gonna go for this battle, there's a number of things you can expect." He says that the first thing that you can expect, because, of course, many of you who know his journey, he was there basically working alongside Patrick Byrne with Overstock and all of the challenges that Overstock saw. He's been working with many other companies, and there's a full list that I've published in the past of the different companies that he's actually represented as well.
He said that you can expect that, when it comes to the regulators or when it comes to the authorities, you know, those who are in power, there are gonna be some who are gonna wanna investigate you, who are gonna wanna, basically check in on what you're saying and what you're doing. At the same time, there's gonna be others who may be more empowered to want to, be out there, making a difference on behalf of shareholders. We've seen a lot of that over the last three months on both sides. At the same time, with investors, you're gonna have investors who are going to potentially be even more predatory, and you may have investors who, bring a lot of criticism on you.
You're also gonna have investors, hopefully the ones that are the long-term investors, want to support the journey as well because they care about having a level playing field for the company. At the same time, you're gonna have CEOs, and you're gonna have companies, that may come along for all the wrong reasons, but others who will come along for the right reasons, and we've seen a lot of that happen on both sides as well. It was actually John Brda , the very first person, that I really got to understand the mechanics of how a CEO, and an investor can actually go through the process that he went through with Torchlight, through to Meta, through to MMTLP.
That was a, that was a more than a 12-month journey from beginning to end, from a starting point very similar to ours all the way through, to what happened with Meta and then beyond. The reason I'm sharing all of that is because we are now 3 months later, and I can tell you everything that was warned and everything that was predicted, both good and bad, all of it has happened. What I want to share really as a message to everybody that's watching this right now, is that there are 3 truths that I shared back in January, which I said would be the same truths like 3 months, 12 months in, but this is a long-term journey that we're part of right now.
The first one, which really is one of the like most important ones of all when it comes to basically how we see the actions that we're taking, which we're always gonna adjust to make sure we're doing the right thing as a U.S. public listed company. At the same time, where we actually see that the number one thing that a CEO and a board of a company should be doing, is basically not just growing the company, which is its first priority to its shareholders, but secondly, protecting the company.
Which means that in the same way that we are really, you know, by regulation, as a public company are required to do, which is to have an audit committee, to have a committee on the board that is there to make sure there's no wrongdoing inside the company. Well, we believe that the same should be happening outside the company. That's why we set up the legal task force, that's why we really believe that we have a duty to our investors, that if we believe that there is anything which is going to be against their interests, then we need to do something about it.
I really hope for anyone who's watching that is in the government, anyone who's watching that, you know, we've already reported this to, that you help us with this, right? Because basically, we can't do this alone. That's the first thing that I wanna share. If you're a CEO watching this as well, the same thing too, right? I'm aware we have a larger audience that are watching us. That very first thing there that I wanted to share, which is the fact that, you know, we do know, right, that as we go forward, we always are going to have a responsibility to our investors.
That those of you who are with us long-term as investors as well, you know that we are constantly watching that and doing whatever we need to do, to make sure that your interest, and your shareholding within Genius Group is being well looked after, right? I think that all companies should have that, and hopefully one day, that will be actually a regulation like that every company needs to make sure that they're protecting both from the outside, any illegal activity as well as from the inside. The second thing is, I kind of already started referring to this, we can't do this alone. I'm taking every call, that I can be taking from a CEO who is reaching out, and this continues to happen, on an increasing basis.
I'm taking any call from those who basically are looking for smarter ways to be able to evolve and grow. Basically the army that's actually showing up to actually look for a change. I've seen this both on Wall Street as well as retail investors. I've seen this within the different parts of government that we already have seen actually step up and want to be part of this as well. That is a growing number of people as well. Off the back of that, I really do hope that we see incredible change. There's a third part to this as well, which is that the advisors that we have, even the advisors themselves, some will say, "Look, keep a low profile.
You know, don't speak out." Others will say, "Look, this is a fight that's too important to not be speaking out as well." We expect that on all sides as well. I'm listening to all different sides, and that's why even on this call, there's things I'd love to share with you, I simply can't for legal reasons. There's other things that we will be sharing over time. Those who are here long term will see we're in a very different position at the end of the year at what we can share and when we can share it, going forward as well. That really brings me to the third part, which is not only number 1, is this something where we believe that we have a duty to protect?
Number two, that we can't do this alone. It's all of us doing it together, 'cause this can only change with systemic change. Number three, which is probably the most important part of all of this, is that this is a long-term battle, right? This is not something that suddenly, like, turns around overnight. You know, we have seen our own, you know, share price go up and down by huge amounts, and this is not about what happens in the short term, it's what happens in the long term. As long as we continue to grow our company and those other companies out there that are growing also are able to actually grow and look after their shareholders, and the customers, that this will eventually pass, right?
I do wanna say that third thing, perseverance is the most fundamental key to all of this. I really do hope that those of you who are watching now will be thinking you'll be watching in a year's time and just seeing how much can change in a year. As I always say, we totally overestimate what we can do in a week, but we massively underestimate what we can achieve in a year. With that, I want to go into the first half of this session, which is gonna be about something that we have been very, very busy working on, and which I personally believe is going to transform not just our company, but it's gonna transform education as well.
In all the noise about corporate structures and about all the actions we're taking, it's too easy for something as important as what I'm about to share to be lost. What I'm going to do is I'm actually gonna be giving you an insight, a live insight, as to just how much the vision that we had for education, how much that is now basically going to, I believe, transform as a result of what we are launching today. This is the part where I basically share with you the technology we have been working on behind the scenes for us to be bringing to millions of students around the world. This is where the whole idea of where Genius itself came from, which is that every one of us has a genie.
That the AI system that we are now developed, now we're launching, we launch it tonight. This is our Genie AI. This is the very, very first genie that I have seen which knows who you are personally. As a result of that, you get to name it, you get to basically have it as your guide by your side, and it, at the same time, gets to know everything about you to be able to actually share not just what are the next steps you need to take in your learning, but what are the steps that you should be taking also in your connections, in your actions, in your opportunities as well. Let me show you a quick video which basically summarizes what this is.
I really hope for those of you who've been following along at the AI revolution will see just how much of a step we have taken forward in the way that we are looking at this entire system going forward as well. I'm just gonna take and make sure I have got all my screens here, and let me share with you, first of all, the video, and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna share with you a live demo so you can actually see it as well. I will see if I can make this full screen. Let's have a look at this video here, which you can see on my screen now, and I am going to go straight into full screen here as well. All right, here we go.
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What I'm about to share with you is the Genie Alpha, which is already out and running, and we have got a team that is in there testing every day, and we are getting blown away by just what Genie is providing to us. The Genie Beta, you'll see there's actually a link. As investors, if you want to come join the Genie Beta, it's free to join, and there's a link that you'll see below this video. Go ahead and click on that if you'd like to, and we'd love to have you on board as part of this too. Let me share with you how Genie works and why we are so excited by it, first of all.
You'll see here that what allows us to do what I'm about to show you, where we can actually recommend people to meet, like, you know, things to connect to, is because on our GeniusU platform, which I know many of you are familiar with, we already, number one, are providing personalized paths based on who you should connect with, who, what you should learn, because we have our assessment programs that take place. We have got millions of people joining us through assessments. What is your passions? What is your purpose? What are your talents? What should you be doing with your life? When someone comes to my profile, for example, they can see that I've already taken my purpose test, which is linked to United Nations global goals.
Mine is quality education, and I can then go and look at all the other people that are actually in that as well. My passions are based on The Passion Test. It goes on. Now, up to now, I've had to go explore around to find other people that might be linked to me, just in the same way you might look for a book on Amazon. Now with Genie, it's a whole different story. Here is Genie, and basically this is our alpha version of Genie, where you can see Genie already knows me.
It's saying, "Hi Roger, what would you like to ask me today?" Let's say for example, I just start by saying, "Hi Genie." And I'm on an every day, like, being exactly who I am, wanting to be able to build my business and wanting to be educated as I go as well. I said, "How do you want to assist me?" Let me just start by saying, "Do you know where I am today?" Because basically I am on here permission-based, giving Genie access to where I am, what I'm doing, it can pick up my IP, it can tell, it can know, it knows right now I'm in Warsaw, which is in Poland, which is actually correct.
I'm here right now, and so I might say, "Okay, great, who would you recommend I connect to in the GeniusU network?" right? What it's doing is it actually goes and looks at all the other people that are in the community, right? These are students, these are mentors, people in the community, and what's it come up with? It said, "Okay, connect with Michal." Michal, I do not believe I've seen Michal for many, many years. He's an entrepreneur with a creative profile, which is the same as my profile as an entrepreneur who lives in Warsaw. It's even given me a link which allows me to actually open up and have a look at Michal. Here's Michal here. Michal has no idea I'm looking at this.
He has a company here called Zebra Hub, which is a co-working space. I can see all about the information about him. I can basically, you know, send him a message and get connected with him. By beta, Genie will do that message for you, right? If I come back and I say, "Okay, well, that's someone I could meet," I could say something like, "Okay, what about someone who can mentor me," right? If you're looking for someone who's gonna be helping you as a guide, we have over 12,000 partners, including thousands of mentors. Here it's recommending Jan Polak. He's saying he's a mentor based in Czech Republic, right? Nearby your location.
I can actually go have a look at Jan, who he is, what he's doing, and basically connect up with him. I could say, "Okay, what about a learning step," right? Like what could be the next step that I should be taking in my learning? Then it will go away, think about it, come back. "Okay, I suggest you take the Wealth Dynamics test on GeniusU as a next learning step." It's given me the link to that as well. I might ask something like, you know, "Okay, what about an event to join?" Whatever it is that you're looking for, and this isn't just something that's just accessing all of the knowledge within our GeniusU platform. Here it's saying the Impact Investor Summit, taking place first and second of June.
This is coming up. The summit's designed for impact investors, social entrepreneurs, leaders who are committed to creating positive change in the world. Let's imagine I was, "Okay, I'm gonna book for that," right? Okay, great, I'll book for that. Oh, I've gone to caps for that. By the way, based on my purpose, because it knows all of this, passions, talents, I'm thinking of investing in either shares, crypto, property. What would you suggest would suit me best? When you really have someone who has all the information in the world, and at the same time has all this information it's building on you, here it says, "As a dynamo on the wealth spectrum, you're naturally suited to creating and building new ventures.
With all three investment options you can mention potential growth and profit, investing in property may be the best for you. This is because property investment requires creativity, vision, ability to see potential where others may not. Additionally, your passion for the environment may align well with sustainable property development." Okay, that's interesting. Sounds like my resource. Would resorts be a good option? Off it will go and have a think, and it basically is able to not only... Here it goes, "Yes, investing in resorts could be a good option for you, especially given your background in entrepreneurship and your passion for health and creativity. Entrepreneur Resorts," which is part of Genius, okay, it's picked our company already, "is a great example of a resort investment opportunity that aligns with your interests and values.
However, as mentioned earlier, you want to carefully consider your personal goals, tolerance, et cetera, et cetera." I was like, "Okay, great." Right? Off the back of that, if I now said something like, "Okay, great. By the way, I'd like to launch an AI business. Again, given my purpose and profile..." Whoops, I'm typing a bit too fast here. "... and profile, what would you recommend as a startup idea?" Of course, you know you can do this kind of thing on ChatGPT, even though it doesn't know who you are. You could go and try and kind of prime it to give it all this information as opposed to automatically having it. To know who to connect with and how to do that, it's a different thing.
Here it says, "Given your purpose of quality education, your strengths in creativity and forward-thinking, a startup idea that combines AI and education could be a great fit for you. For example, you could create an AI-powered platform that provides personalized learning experiences for students based on their individual needs." That kind of sounds like GeniusU. "That platform could use machine learning algorithms to adapt to each student's progress and provide real-time feedback. Another idea could be create an AI-powered virtual tutor that provides one-on-one support to students who need extra help. This tutor could use natural language processing." That's exactly what we just designed here. Nice idea. How, what would be three names you'd suggest for the company together with tagline? Let's just see what it says.
Once you start going down this route. Okay, Brainwave, LearnAI, SmartEd. Okay, very nice. I need someone to join the team as a creator profile. Who would you suggest? Then we can actually go build a team around whichever one that we actually want to have as well, whatever you want to do. Based on your strengths and skills, it would suggest Suraj Naik on GeniusU. He's actually already one of our team members. AI education startup. Suraj's a creator profile on GeniusU. Expertise in graphic design, video production, content creation. You can find his profile here. Once you start going down this path, then start looking at how you then connect with others, this also links up with everything out there in the world. If you were to say, "Okay, great.
is is my final thing I'm going to share, but you get the idea here. I'm going to go way beyond GeniusU, of the best examples of companies leading in this field. Oops, sorry. Other than Genius Group. Let's just see what it comes up with, because once you actually start going out to look at others, what they're up to, what they're doing, you then have the ability as well off the bat. So it gives us Carnegie Learning, Coursera, Duolingo
Of course we can go to each of those, and if we wanted to connect up, I mean, obviously I know, the executives at these different places, but I could also just say, "Who is the decision-maker at Coursera, and how would I contact him or her?" Then off it goes, and now we're at the contact level where we're actually going out to people, all around the world, who may not have their profile on GeniusU yet. We can see here that Jeff is the CEO. If you'd like to contact him, then you can go to the contact page on Coursera. You know, they've got LinkedIn. Do you have his LinkedIn profile link? This basically as you go on, yes, here it is, right?
Now it's given the profile link for Jeff. What is so powerful about what I'm sharing here is that, once you actually, realize that while of course we'd all love to have, an AI that is gonna be able to follow us everywhere and be able to connect, learn, earn, act, review with us, which is the CLEAR steps that we do every day, there is no other platform that can easily do that from what we can see.
There may be more in the future, but because we already have set up from day one all the assessments which allow us to have all this data, and for people to connect with each other on things that are really important to us, which is our purpose, our passions, our talents, the things that actually get us into our main path in life. We already have that. The second thing is the fact that people are actively looking to connect with each other. Of course, if you're on a platform, you don't want people to connect with you, that's fine. You can just tell your Genie AI that you don't want to be disturbed, and it's not gonna even recommend you. As time goes on, we're gonna be linking all the AI agents into this.
By the time we go further down this year, you can imagine that it'll get to a point where my Genie AI will be speaking with your Genie AI. Then we'll be actually getting whatever is the digest of that and then connecting up, with calendar invites being set and all of these different things that will come down the line. There are all the inevitable things that are happening within AI as well. What I'd like to share with you is the fact that this is a launch that's happening today. The alpha is now out. We now are basically testing it and stress testing it. We have got the beta. The beta is not far away, right? We have got a lot of activity happening this quarter. We're now in April. April, May, June.
We have the summit, which is in June. We are gonna be sharing extremely exciting tech with you, where you yourself are gonna have your own personal Genie if you're part of the beta program as well. You're gonna see just how powerful it is, when you have them guide you on your investment decisions, on your, on your actions as an entrepreneur, on the people you want to connect with, the people that can mentor you. This is all part and parcel of what I think is an extremely exciting next step in the revolution, of education.
If there's one thing that I would share as well, which I think is very, very important for everybody, is that there is also something very important, which is that if you actually were to know. I'm just seeing a note from the team here. It says that, you know, it's, it looks like there's some messages that are happening at the moment. If anyone on the team needs to speak to me about anything, that's great. You can basically let me know, but otherwise I'm just gonna continue. One thing which I think is really, really important about this as well is that many of you may have seen that there are schools and universities that are banning AI at the moment, while we're embracing AI.
I really believe we're going through a phase which is as pivotal as what happened when we went from horse and carriage to automobiles. Of course, back then, there were no motor races, right? If there was anything, there was a horse race or a running race. When you basically had motor cars that showed up, you wouldn't allow a motor car into a horse race or a running race. In the same way that there are certain educational institutions who effectively say you've got to do it on your own, so you can't bring that AI with you.
At the same time that that's happening with the old school, there is a whole new breed of education where in exactly the same way that as people realized the cars were going to be far more popular, people started actually creating driving lessons, right? Then there were motor races. You could not go into a motor race without a car. The whole focus there was to be a good driver. I really believe that the future is going to be with those who choose to be AI pilots. Everyone who's gonna be on our platform are gonna be on our platform with their own AI, and the entire education system relies on them having an AI.
In fact, you can't come onto the platform without your AI, but we provide you with your own Genie, which allows you to then make your own dreams come true. That is the basis of what we're now creating, and we're gonna be seeing a lot more of this on GeniusU as we roll out the beta version. Like I said, you'll see down below there is a link, and that link does provide you with basically a early entry to actually come and join us on the platform as well. I'm just gonna open up here as well because I'm just gonna share with you so that everyone's aware of it as we go through this. We're about to go to the second half of the of the meeting now.
I do wanna basically show everyone here that if you are basically following the link, which is geniusu.ai, that on this link here, you will see that there is a very simple joining and then there's information down below as well about what those clear steps are, what the beta launch package is. Like I said, it's complimentary for everyone who'd like to come and join us and be part of this and the testing as we go forward as well.
I'm gonna now come through to the second part because while this first part here, launch of Genie AI, for us, is news that we have been building towards all year, and now that we basically have made that the news, we do have other updates which are linked to what we're doing on the partnership side, our board of advisors, and then everything else you're seeing here are all the corporate actions that we have taken, really there to protect our own investors and make sure that we are doing the right things, based on the state of the markets right now as well. First of all, launch of Genie AI, I have now shared with you. I'm now gonna come on to the second part here, which is the partnerships update.
We have got partnerships which are now accelerating with our partnerships team. We, as many of you know, already have 12,000 partners that are on board, and we're now building with those partners, the next step, which is basically how we are turning all of these different programs into our university programs. We have got UAV, which many of you know is our university, where we have now launched the California Business School. You'll see here, within the California Business School, we have the partners that we have announced recently, Salim Ismail, who runs Exponential Organizations, Peter Diamandis, the founder of the XPRIZE. We have Simon Zutshi, one of our acquisition companies, who runs the property investors network.
We're continuing to build out our different speakers and our different experts that are coming and joining us with all the professors that we have that are actually teaching the MBA program. That is part of the Department of Education WASC accredited program for those who are taking our MBA in the U.S. We also have got now both an MBA and a DBA, which is the international doctorate, as well as the master's in Business Administration, which is taking place with the Swiss School of Business and Management, which is recognized in Europe and around the world as well.
This is something which is now integrating the things that we're sharing and where we're going to basically be giving everyone their own Genie AI as part of this process as well. So very, very excited about that. I think there's another part to this as well, which is very important, which is that as we run our investor summit and we basically run our programs that are coming up as well, as a result of our partnership with our acquisition company, Revealed Films, which is our documentary company, we have a whole stable of incredible partners that already are part of Revealed Films, where we now are reaching out to them to bring them on board into our curriculum as well.
To just give you a bit of a taste, especially for those who are watching, where you are very interested in the structure of the current markets, and those that have actually been both entrepreneurial and investing that already have been in the different programs we've run, I wanna just show you just a quick 2 minutes of the Money Revealed documentary, which I was in, as well as Patrick Byrne and a series of others that I've already mentioned, where we're talking about the state of the markets, and how we as investors can go about ethical investing, protect ourselves, but at the same time, you know, do the right thing with the companies that we're a part of as well.
Just to give you a bit of a taste of the kind of talent that we have had within Revealed Films, then I'm gonna share with you a little bit about what our current plans are with our partners as well. Just have a quick look at this.
Blockchain is the most exciting innovation. There's gonna be trillions and tens of trillions of dollars of capital created through this system. There's going to be so much value created that all we need is one tiny little sliver of that value, we're just fine. I am going all in.
Really what needs to be explained is our wealth, our prosperity. Where did that come from? How do we generate more of that for everybody globally? Let's not worry about what the market's gonna do tomorrow.
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Let's not worry about people telling you it's gonna crash next year, those kinds of things. Think about being an investor for the rest of your life, and let's start doing it the real way, the way that works.
The rapaciousness and mercenary nature of Wall Street and the things that they do make them impossible. We offer that expertise that does help level the playing field. At the end of the year, I calculate our average gain, and, I mean, we just do really well.
Only 50% of the population is cognitively hardwired to be an entrepreneur, the other half of us, we're just not programmed that way. Imagine if you had a $10 thousand or $20 thousand a month residual coming that just took care of you. Earning a small amount off the efforts of many versus 100% of just me.
The middle class are people who may have a little bit of money, but most of the time they end up spending what they have, and the challenge with that is your business will always be a mirror of yourself. I was trying to make businesses make money, but I wasn't myself being cash flow positive. I wasn't reinvesting the money, buying properties, buying assets, making sure they were making money for me. Why would the money come my way? Money's always trying to find the best home, and if I'm not able to appreciate the money, the money won't appreciate me.
Let me just declare my bias right up front. I am a capitalist. I think capitalism is collectively the greatest thing humanity's ever created, I'm gonna prove it to you.
You've seen the list there of all of the people that have been a part of just this one documentary. What has been very exciting to see as we've now brought on board, you know, the whole documentary model into education is how we can now build that into the different programs that we actually have out there as well. Everyone can be learning financial literacy, and whether it's investing or whether it's being an entrepreneur, that we can all be prepared for this future that we're moving into as well.
The partnerships that we actually build link into our partner portal that we have now launched, which gives everyone a chance to have their own global classroom, be connected up with the different accredited programs around the world that we're launching, as well as the different technologies like the Genie AI that everyone can be a part of as well. We really believe that we're, you know, at this point making great progress in those areas, and there's gonna be more news about that as we move forward on our monthly meetings as well.
Let me come over here beyond partnerships back to our university as well because the next thing that we're wanting to share is the fact that we have brought some new incredible talent into our board of advisors for UAV. We have got Kimberly Bradshaw and also Marie S-Soali. Both of them are over 25 years within finance accounting, the entire university side in terms of basically being both deans and also heads of universities at different colleges, both in vocational colleges as well as universities in West Coast, East Coast. They're basically coming and joining us and bringing their curriculum-building expertise with them. There are familiar faces you see here on the right.
There's Richard Berman, who is one of our board of directors. He, as many of you know, has been the director of four public companies that have reached over $1 billion in market cap and has been extremely instrumental in advising on the growth of what we're doing. Timothy Murphy, who is a retired FBI deputy director. You also recognize both these two names because not only are they on the board, they're also both part of our illegal trading task force as well.
What we're really interested in doing is actually making sure that the education programs that we're bringing in on board, not just for entrepreneurs but also for investors, is really moving down that path, of educating, really focusing at how do we make sure that there's ethical investing, ethical entrepreneurship that we can all be a part of, going forward as well. Very, very excited to have them on board and really looking forward to the way that we're now growing our university. Now I'm gonna take us onto change of gears, into the different elements that we have been sharing in terms of the actions that we've been taking. The first one is on the legal actions. One thing I do wanna say about this is that this is not a short process.
This is something which takes a huge amount of time. We do not have a small legal team, right? It's continuing to bring on the very best experts that can really support us on our journey. We have both started and finished a legal action where we actually got to an amicable settlement together with Alto Opportunity Master Fund, with Ethen Capital and with Waqas Khatri, who's the head of Ethen Capital, where we basically were, as many of you would have seen, really feeling when we actually brought this, that we wanted to really make sure that we were doing the right thing for our shareholders.
I mean, all the conversations that we had from there, both with them personally, with the lawyers, they also wanted to do the right thing as well and make sure that we were finding a way forward that was gonna work well for their investors, for our investors, and we believe that we managed to do that.
I really think that this is a good case study, hopefully for other companies as well, where we basically from what we can share, that's not under confidentiality, where we can kinda share what we see as being the win-win that's possible between investors and also a company that is under attack and is basically taking legal actions wherever it feels that there is attacks that are taking place, to actually see that there are two sides to everything, and that we can always find a way forward, where, as you'll see in this settlement, not only did we manage to come to an agreement which we think works for both sides as far as the conversions go, but also as how we can make sure there's no further dilutions going forward, based on the agreement we've got.
At the same time, where we have got Ethen Capital coming on board and providing more support to us for the future as well. That is one thing that we've done and just to be very aware that this is something quite separate from all the actions that we're currently taking with Wes Christian and his company to make sure that we are pursuing every path possible against any illegal activity that's taking place. That continues on, but there's nothing on that that I can actually share at the moment because again, that is under the whole legal activity.
Just do know that that is something that we're putting a huge amount of time and effort into, and we're at that next stage in the process right now, and we will be updating you with more information when we can. We also have got as a result of actions that we have taken very specifically, because we believe that technology is a very big part of transparency and also of fair markets for the future as well, a relationship now with Upstream, where we are one of the first companies, and I believe we're the first New York Stock Exchange company, that has had approval to list on Upstream. We had our dual listing that took place in April 6th. At this point, you now can find us on Upstream as well.
In fact, there is here the actual page for Genius Group on Upstream, where there is a QR code for people to come and join us as well. I know many who are in the U.S. and Canada are asking when will it be possible to be able to place your shares and trade your shares, buy and sell shares on Upstream. I know that they are working very, very hard on this, and we are really evolving in real time, right? This has all been something that has only come about in the last 6 months. 6 months from now, I think again, we're gonna see huge jumps forward.
Upstream has many great plans in place, and I do not believe it's gonna be long before they actually have got the right relationships in place, with the right broker-dealers in order for U.S. and Canadian citizens to be able to be using Upstream as well. If you're watching this from anywhere else in the world, you already obviously can be on Upstream, buying and selling Genius Group shares. You can put them on this platform, and then take them and exchange them back on to the New York Stock Exchange as well.
We did have a Twitter Spaces together with Mark, the CEO there. One thing which we said was, even if you're not looking to trade on there, you know, this is similar to in a way, like the effect that happens when you DRS your shares, where effectively you're taking them out of your broker-dealer so that they cannot be borrowed in the U.S. markets. By putting them onto Upstream is exactly the same effect as that. Even if you're not looking to necessarily buy or sell, just having that process really does help already with basically the pool that's available for anyone who is looking to short our shares or anything else that is not adding value necessarily to the growth of the company.
That's one thing that I do wanna say, very, very happy that we actually have got that as a milestone that we've taken. There is, as you'll see from these steps here, actions that are taken within the first 3 months of us taking action. There are other things that we're gonna talk about later in terms of M&A, for example, where it simply takes longer. Even our spin-off takes much longer. Like I mentioned before with John Burda, with Meta, it was a good like 6 months plus to just get all of the right regulations covered, to get the right prospectuses filed, before they could actually even take that corporate action.
Again, we're only three months into this, I think we've taken huge amounts of steps that we can, given that things do take a long time, to be achieved. With the dual listing of Upstream, what that allowed us to do was also to run our NFT coupon program. Many of you have redeemed your coupons at this point. We did have a number of people who came forward and said that if they had challenges, who do they go to? The answer is, in the Q&A, if this comes up, we'll answer that as well. The answer is you can directly connect up with us. Some people have come to me on Twitter, I've actually directed them to our team to be supported as well.
I think like 99% of everyone was able to actually go through quite smoothly. I will say one thing about this process, we did not know how many people would go through this process? We do know, at this point, without knowing exactly what a final share count will be, because we can never know that until we've done something like a spin-off or a merger in a particular style, that with the coupons, at least, this was something that the broker-dealers needed to be able to honor for any shareholders that basically had shares on the 28th of February.
One thing I will say about this, is that, you know, we do have over 20,000 shareholders at this point, and we were hoping that we'd have the majority of them who would actually wanna take the NFT coupons. If that happens, then we can see, is there, you know, a large number of over-counted shares, basically from what they come forward with. That did not happen, right? Like, some of these things we try, we don't know. No one had ever done this before to try and do this, and I believe we're the first that we're offering coupons in this way, on a share-by-share basis, that is.
Off the back of that, we did have less than 1,000 people, shareholders, actually choose to take the coupon route, which was a disappointment for us, 'cause it meant that it didn't give us enough of a sample size for us to basically see, you know, what were the challenges in the marketplace. At the same time, obviously those who did take the coupons, they then now have got iGEMs on our platform, and they're able to use those iGEMs as well. As a reward to our shareholders, it did work, right? Just for everyone to know, if you have not taken that step yet, the links on how to take that step are in here, and you can go back to the recording in February, 'cause it's in there as well.
What I will say that on here, as you can see, there is a step-by-step process which is open for three months, right? From basically the 15th of March through to the 15th of June. It's open now. Maybe this is a reminder if you haven't actually gone and redeemed your coupons at this point. Please do go do it, 'cause it does help us and it helps you too. With this basically in place, especially with what we have coming up, hopefully this will be something which will be a value add for you as well. The actual use of those coupons goes on not just for the up to June, but actually up to September. It goes on for a full six months.
We will hopefully, off the back of this, see more and more of those coupons being redeemed as well. That's an update on what's happened on the coupon side. When it comes to the ERL spin-off, this is a very complex process because we're dealing with three different countries here. We have, first of all, the country which has to pass all the laws in order for the spin-off to happen, which is Singapore, because Singapore is the base where Genius Group is incorporated. It also has to go through all the regulations of Seychelles, because Entrepreneur Resorts is a public-listed company in the Seychelles on the MERJ Exchange. It has to go through all their regulations as well.
Thirdly, it has to go through all the regulations of the NYSE and the SEC in the US, because obviously Genius Group is listed in the US. Going through all three different jurisdictions means there is a lot of hoops for us to jump through. We are making big progress here. We basically have got our EGM. It took longer to get all of the approvals through, but we do have it now scheduled and confirmed for May 16th. That is where we will be voting on the actual distribution of shares of Entrepreneur Resorts. That's 31, close to $32 million worth of shares, which are gonna be distributed pro rata to everyone who is owning shares at the time that we basically do the distribution.
This, by the way, will force a buy-in. It will force a share count. Every broker-dealer will need to basically say exactly how many shares each shareholder has, because they are gonna have to distribute from that detail, we're gonna be distributing these shares in Entrepreneur Resorts. Entrepreneur Resorts is a public-listed company, like I mentioned. Then from there, I know there's some questions in the Q&A about what happens at that point after that distribution has taken place. We'll answer those questions when we get to the Q&A. We also have got some just constitutional amendments that we're making to make sure that we're up to date with all the public company rules that we need to be following in Singapore as well.
That's all coming with the EGM, and we already are a long way down the process of that as well. Basically last day and time for the proxy forms we received was May 13th, with the EGM on May 16th. We have to take it through a court process, which gets approved by the Singapore courts. That takes place by June 29th. This does move back. We were hoping to do this in quarter two. It's now gonna be happening in quarter three. These are at this point, these at the kind of like the latest it will happen, but we're gonna try and expedite it as much as we can.
A lot of it depends on how long it takes for the NYSE process, which includes the filing of the registration statement and SEC's approval. If that happens faster, then of course we'll move faster as well. From there, we basically will be giving you all a very clear picture of exactly when the steps will take place. From there, we then will be completing. Everyone who's investors at that time will have shares both in Genius Group, as they have at the time of the distribution, and also shares in Entrepreneur Resorts as well.
One thing I will say about this, which I think is very important as well, is that everything that we are doing, to try and resolve the issue of potential counterfeit shares, you know, what ShareIntel is reporting to us, they continue to give us their reports, and everything that we are seeing there really can only actually happen at the time of the spin-off and the share counts. Everything we're doing up until then, you know, we know we've been coming up with lots of new great news, you know, like the share price is not reflecting it, we're very aware of that.
We're gonna continue to focus Growing the business, fighting the fight, protecting our shareholders, and moving forward in the most effective way that we can through this whole process. We do ask for patience, right? Because again, as you can see, this is not something that happens overnight. This is basically a very big part of our goal going forward is to make sure that we complete this spinoff effectively and we then as a result of this also build shareholder value for everyone as we move forward as well. That leads us onto the M&A strategy. I know many of you are here 'cause you're looking for very specific news on where we are at.
As I'm sure you're all very, very aware when there is NDAs or there is any kind of lawyers involved, then we are very restricted on what we can say. I'm gonna speak in very general terms here. We are 100% committed to an M&A strategy which has evolved through this year. We had an M&A strategy when we began the year, which was very much around having Edtech companies that we could actually have join our group, for these companies to be very much in the region of $30 million-$50 million in size. As a result of that, they would be accretive, but they'd also be smaller than the size of Genius Group itself.
We are continuing to be in this focus here on the Edtech side. We do have a big area here where there are a number of companies you know, really, in terms of the number of companies that have come to me, many of which aren't in our industry, but where the CEOs and their boards are very much in agreement that there is a death zone that micro caps are in, where if they're at, I would say $400 million-$500 million or lower in market cap, it is actually quite easy for predatory trading to take place because the volumes just aren't that high. There aren't as many institutional investors.
As a result of that, you know, a lot of the companies that are having the toughest time right now, they are micro caps, right? They're companies like us in size. In those conversations, it's like, you know, there is absolutely merit in bringing together a number of companies that are in the same field that actually allow us to be able to, by combining, be worth quite a lot more.
You'll see here the actual kind of companies that are between $50 million-$150 million in size, which is really like the same size as us as Genius Group, you don't need to bring that many of those companies together, and you've actually got a very, very powerful cooperation between companies that actually adds value to all of them. We are looking very specifically at media companies that have strong expertise in education marketing and possible synergies that we can capitalize on.
Given that, as you can see, a large part of our whole focus is the freemium model, where we can actually bring a large audience in, whether it's through media, whether it's through entertainment, and then from there build the long tail of education that comes from it and lifelong learning. That then really builds up the whole structure as well because if you're a media company, you're really making money from the front end as a percentage, but if you can actually bring the full value of that audience in to something that's very important to them, which is education, then that actually builds a totally different equation that comes off the back of that as well. We'll be basically sharing a lot more news about this as we can as we go forward.
At this point we are right in the midst of the process, right? Because of that, there is nothing more I can share in specifics on that other than say we're committed to that strategy. It's a strategy that you'll see us play out as we go through this year. We'll give you the specifics of that as we can. That leads me to the Q&A. On the Q&A side, I am going to be relying also on Flora on some of the Q&A that we go through as well. Let me first of all just bring Flora on and say, Flora, would you like me to go through the Q&A on what we've covered so far and then you cover some additional?
I'm quite happy if you wanna take the full Q&A and the answers you've got there as well. What would you prefer?
I think that's fine. You can go through the list that Percy gave you. I'll answer the ones on the chat.
Perfect. Okay. Let me go through the questions here. We don't have as many questions as we did last month, we have some which are the same questions, right? The very first one, which was on the spinoff, the question was will the resource spinoff be dual listed? The answer to that one is that right now Entrepreneur Resorts actually is already listed on MERJ, and the dual listing we just did with Genius Group is with a partnership with MERJ, which is Upstream Exchange. In the case here, when we do the spinoff, we'll make a decision. Should it be on MERJ? Should it be on MERJ, Upstream Exchange?
A lot of that has to do with basically has Upstream Exchange at that point, you know, got the right kind of liquidity. Does it have the permission for those in U.S. and Canada to come on board? These are all considerations at the moment, so we'll make that decision closer to the time. At the same time, we do have that intention of actually listing on a bigger exchange. We are looking at the different exchanges around the world 'cause obviously we are international, so that it's easy for everyone who's got shares there to have liquidity as well as be part of the growth of our vision for Entrepreneur Resorts.
The second question is, can Genius Group put out more clarification on why the company thinks the spinoff is a good move for shareholders beyond forcing a share count? Which is a very fair point. We shouldn't be doing anything just as a defensive measure. Everything we should be doing should be proactive as well. Just so everyone knows, and I know I shared this on one of our calls before, we were already considering having the two as two separate entities. The reason for that is because after the IPO, we brought some incredible executives on board to grow a Genius Group. Their whole focus was on the tech side, on the education side, quite rightly.
Because of that, it meant that Entrepreneur Resorts did not necessarily have the full focus of a hospitality focus management team. We said, you know, they're two totally different business models. Both of them are focusing on entrepreneurship and how we can grow education, but by actually having them as two separate companies that it would benefit the investors more by having two very different management teams that are experts within those two areas. I really believe that we will see by spinning it off, that we're gonna see the value of that for all shareholders on both sides. Frankly, even if we weren't dealing with the issues we're dealing with on the trading side, we'd still be considering this anyway, right? Next question.
Okay, now we're onto the questions around naked shorts dilutions. Received multiple questions on the naked shorts. I'm gonna mention a list of all the different questions that came through, 'cause you might have asked one of these questions. Question is, has the drop in Genius' share price given shorts the opportunity to exit? That's one question. Are the number of counterfeit shares still high given the slow bleed in the share price, the creation of the options chain, psychological warfare the shorts have been waging on retail shareholders attempting to get us to throw in the towel and sell?
Is the drop in share price coming from Ayrton's sale of the 30 million shares they recently acquired in the lawsuit settlement, or are the lenders hanging on to these shares and lending their newly acquired shares to shorts? Does forcing a share count at this point have the same impact it would have had a few months ago? I've been instructed to say this is not something that Genius cannot comment on, right? Now that's Genius. Genius cannot comment on. I would say as a person, it could be all of the above, it could be none of it. We don't know, right?
At this point, all we know is that we're in for the long term, and that we should not be looking at what's been happening to our share price in the short term, as basically any one of these, 'cause we frankly do not know. The next question, I received multiple inquiries on the share price trends. It's quite similar. Is there a correlation between the share price falling again with the settlement reached with naked short sellers? Why does the share price remain under severe pressure? It is under pressure, but at the same time it is 350% up on the year, which makes it one of the highest performing shares at this point. It could be in a very different place, either up or down in the next month.
We have no idea, frankly, it's something we have no control over other than to keep fighting this fight. That's what I will say that we are 100% focused at the business and on what we can do to protect shareholders. We'll continue to come out with good news, I believe, because our news that we're coming out with is reflecting the business and the growth of the business as well. The next question, can we use our iGEMs or our NFTs at Genius Resorts if we holiday there? If so, on what? The answer is yes, you can use it on food, drink, accommodation. We have vouchers that are all redeemable to that. We welcome you to our resorts.
Can you produce a short video on how to use Upstream to buy and sell Genius shares, please? Okay. Upstream are very good at actually providing different instructions. We're not able to provide a video right now on that, but we have got the step-by-step, which is on our investor relations website. I'm very sure Flora can share that again if any of you want to have a guide through that as well. Flora has also shared her email, which is the investor email you'll see underneath this video as well. How are partnerships building value for partners in Genius Group?
I hope what I shared earlier on the partnership side already allows everyone to see, really the value that comes from bringing together top entrepreneurs, top investors, together with our professors, and those who are our educators already. Our partnerships do fit into, three different categories. We have our faculty partners that are bringing content in. We have our community partners that actually run cities and countries around the world and effectively create the schools. We also have got our certification partners, the ones who are the teachers, that will use the faculty content, and at the same time, they will use the community schools to be able to then, educate with whatever country in the world they happen to be as well.
That's how we end up with so many thousands of different partners around the world. That allows us to really block the bottlenecks, or clear the bottlenecks that happen within education, which generally is stuck with the school you have to go to because it's in your area, or the textbook you need to read because it's on the curriculum, or the teacher in the classroom because that's the teacher you're given. This allows on both sides, not just the student to get to the right faculty, the right content and the right school, but it also allows anyone who's a great teacher to be able to have a global classroom in a way they couldn't if they were just restricted to that one school.
It really, I believe is a big paradigm shift in education. The last couple of questions here. Another Entrepreneur Resorts question. It's been listed on MERJ as a standalone since 2017, was acquired and rolled up into Genius in 2020. What's the dynamics of the 2.6% that Genius doesn't own? Just to be clear, Entrepreneur Resorts was always public. It never went private. It just happened that Genius ended up with, what, 97% of the public shares, of the public float. There was still a small float that was there that Genius didn't buy over. However, now we're gonna basically release that Genius float back into the hands of the Genius shareholders.
This is not a matter of us going private then going public again. We're public all the way through. The final question, which I think I've answered already, can US and Canadian investors own shares of Entrepreneur Resorts on MERJ? Oh no, this is a different question. With Entrepreneur Resorts on MERJ, as soon as we have got the prospectus, that is approved, by the SEC, then of course the answer is yes, because, it's gonna be an approved spin-off. We have to wait for that, and of course, we're not gonna actually do the spin-off until we have that. The answer is yes. With that, I will now hand it over to Flora for other questions that might have come through.
Hello everyone. Thank you for all your questions on the chat. I'll start from the start. There was a question on whether the recording would be available straight away. because this is a YouTube live stream, you can actually view it straight away afterwards, and also we're gonna be uploading it on the investor relations website. Second question was about what's going on with the dual listing. As Roger explained during the call today, the first day of trading was on the sixth of April. also there was another question on, you know, ERL trading on MERJ already and how that's, you know, happening. Roger just answered that as well.
This is because ERL was already listed and the float was 2.6%, it still is today, and later on we're gonna be really listed entirely after the spinoff. Another question was on how much history does the AI store to be able to reference. This information is not yet public, so we won't be able to answer this question. Do you need to open a MERJ account to get bonus shares? Questions on anything related to spinoff will be provided, answers to those questions will be provided later on once we actually have gotten approval during the EGM and once we've got board approval and we've also done the NYSE process. Please, you know, hold on to that.
You know, give it a couple of months, and we'll be providing all of the instructions later on. What will trigger a share account? Events like for example, the ERL spinoff will be triggering a share account in the future. How do I get the NFT code? The NFT code is GNSCOUPON, and you can find online on our investor relations website. Another question was about what is going on with the illegal task force. The task force has been actually working on all, you know, the corporate actions that we have implemented so far. You know, goes from, you know, the coupon, the dual listing and, you know, currently the ERL spinoff, and also the legal action that we're still working on. When are the earnings? The earnings, they have not yet been announced.
As soon as we release the press release, it will be available on our investor relations website. We will also be having a webinar once we've released the earnings. Upstream said that they can't allow U.S. to transfer shares onto Upstream. Can you please clarify? I believe Roger touched upon this question earlier today, really this is mainly linked to U.S. regulation and this is something that Upstream is working on at the moment. We'll let you know as soon as this changes in the future. Other questions on when is the dividend. Here I will answer with two answers. One, GNS does not have a regular dividend because we do not have that dividend policy.
However, there's the ERL spinoff where investors will be getting shares in ERL, so that could also be considered a special dividend, and this will happen after all the process that Roger went through before. This is it for the questions.
Thank you so much, Flora. I really, really appreciate it. Really appreciate everyone who has come and joined us. Really appreciate all of the work that went into the build of our AI and the new tech that we have as well. Final thing I would say 'cause I'm seeing all the comments and I'm seeing everything that's in there as well, the final thing I'll say is Troika, we are not going to, and we're not able to make any comment about any company at the moment outside of Genius Group. I wanna say a big thank you to everyone who has come here and hopefully everyone who has listened through to our strategies and what we are planning to do, not just spinoff, but M&A.
Get that basically if you were to just continue to follow our plans and where we're going and what we're doing, then, we will be looking forward to a very, very exciting year ahead. Thanks everyone very much, and we will catch up with you on our next call. Goodbye.