The founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club have, until very recently, gone only by the pseudonyms Gargamel and Gordon Goner. To go along with our first digital cover story, Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow stepped out from behind their Ape personas to give Input the scoop on how they met and conceived of what would become the world’s most popular NFT project.
“We were both home from college, both studying creative writing at the time, and we immediately got into a fight about David Foster Wallace,” Aronow says of their meeting. “Garga was like, ‘That guy sucks.’ And that was kind of the beginning of our friendship.”
