Alts

Horacio spoke with Jonah Reynolds, CEO at Pangea Builders. Pangea Builders is a design and build firm for sustainable and off-grid buildings. Pangea focuses on the home's water, power, wastewater, and heating/cooling systems. In this episode, Jonah discusses the benefits of sustainable off-grid systems, their advantages to traditional buildings, and the company’s mission to educate future sustainable builders.

Discussion topics include:

• Building off-grid custom homes and Earthships

• Conventional backups to help sustainable systems

• Using thermal mass, or earth-type material, for frame walls

• Adding value to homes by making them self-sufficient

• Working with municipal governments for green building

• Using thermal mass to complement solar power

• Inviting designers and architects to Pangea builds

• Frame buildings designed to be as cheap as possible

• California laws requiring new homes have solar power systems

• Building in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

• Jumping through bureaucratic red tape to build after disasters

• Getting sustainable buildings into the mainstream

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- Link to Alan Goldsher playlist

Horacio spoke with Corey Ashton Walters, the Founder and CEO at Here. Here is an investment platform fractionalizing shares of vacation rental properties. Here is focused on bringing quality homes as vacation rentals to market in popular travel destinations. In this podcast Corey discusses the unique return profiles of vacation rentals, his journey toward creating Here, and the future of the platform.

Discussion topics include:

• Market opportunities for vacation rental properties

• Changing tastes and preferences in vacation properties among Millenials

• Fractionalization enabling access to investors

• Learning from his experience at Homeworthy, his previous company

• The work that went into Sunburst as Here’s first initial public offering

• Choosing a vacation property in Largo, FL

• Future offerings and regions on Here

• Value-add for vacation properties to increase booking revenue

• Competing on product to stand out as an investment platform

• Unique return profile of vacation properties

• Expanding into an international company with worldwide offerings

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Horacio spoke with Howard Epstein, a financial advisor and life-long sports memorabilia collector. Howard wrote a whitepaper advocating for dedicated partnerships between wealth management firms and sports memorabilia experts. Howard argues that such business connections would benefit wealth management clients, advisors, and firms.

Discussion topics include:

• The genesis for writing the whitepaper for financial advisors

• Wealth management firms having the potential to help collectors

• Sports collections not being a part of conversations with financial advisors

• Cyclical nature of the sports memorabilia market

• Vintage Hall of Famers as investable assets

• The nuances of becoming an appraiser through experience

• The missed opportunity by firms on sports memorabilia

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Horacio spoke with Alts Co-founder and CIO Wyatt Cavalier and Investment Analyst Tully Ross about the unveiling of the ALTS 1 Fund. Wyatt and Tully talk about building the fund, finding new insights on overlooked asset classes, and using data to drive the Alts investment strategy. Wyatt also talks about the next steps at Alts and the reciprocal relationship between content and investment. Tully talks about the opportunities that alternative assets offer compared to traditional equities.

Discussion topics include:

• The Alts fund as a broad spectrum, actively-managed alternative asset fund

• Providing “swag” for investors

• The potential of concert posters and vinyl records to provide returns

• Doing the “in the weeds” hard work to discover emerging asset classes

• Unveiling a Reg A fund in the future with the current fund being a Reg D fund

• Alts creating the first indices for vinyl records and concert posters

• Fund activities reflecting company recommendations

• Performance reflecting the content from Alts

• Passion for the alternative asset class and the importance of transparency

• Differentiating the Alts 1 Fund through hard data

• Adding value to the fund through passive streams of income

• Finding opportunities due to lack of liquidity in alternatives

• Creating a broad fund to diversify risk and capitalize on opportunities

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Horacio spoke with Aaron Burnett, Founder, and CEO of Spaced Ventures, an investment platform for startup space companies. Think of companies in satellite imaging, space insulation, rocket fuel tanks, and radiation barriers. Spaced Ventures democratizes investment into the next frontier, with minimum investments as low as $100. Aaron talks about the moment he decided to be a part of the space industry and the purpose of his work that he sees as his life’s mission.

Discussion topics include:

• Building the world’s largest community of space investors

• Opportunities with alternative investments and early-stage space companies

• Describing the sonic wave that goes through you during launch

• The importance of the SpaceX Starship orbital rocket launch and flight

• The Karman line as the delineation of space and Earth's atmosphere

• Space as a place and not an industry

• The first gas station floating above space by Orbit Fab

• Government funding going to a handful of companies

• Diversifying investments because of expected losses among startups

• Space investments as long-term holds

• Being super-focused on space companies to provide value

• The pros and cons of getting government contracts

• Aaron going to Mars within his lifetime and space tourism

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Horacio spoke with Laura Ten Eyck, the 2nd Floor Gallery Director at the Argosy Bookstore. Laura is an antiquarian map dealer, vice president of the New York Map Society, and a regular guest on the PBS Antiques Roadshow. In this episode, Laura talks about what makes maps valuable collector’s items, how map collecting has changed in the last 20 years, and the current trends in the industry. Laura also gives an analysis of the 1796 Plan for New York City that will be fractionalized on Rally Road in the near future.

Discussion topics include:

• Map dealers fractionalizing or creating a ring for rare maps

• Working at the Argosy Book Store as the 2nd Floor Gallery Director

• Gaining experience through an apprenticeship at Argosy

• Maps used for persuasive reasons and propaganda

• Map dealers pushed aside with the prevalence of online platforms

• Finding other categories of maps to find value

• Changing tastes and preferences among map collectors

• Auctions houses moving away from map specialists and departments

• The rise of the contemporary art collector negatively impacting maps

• A community physically caring for an item and guarding it financially

• Looking at Classic maps as alternative investments, think big and beautiful

• Famous geographical maps across the world

• Methods for appraising maps and determining value

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Horacio spoke with Michael Bereslavsky, Founder and CEO of Domain Magnate. Domain Magnate is an online business brokerage specializing in the buying and selling of viable business websites. Domain Magnate also has an online business fund open to accredited investors. In this episode, Michael and Horacio talk about the nuances of buying online businesses – including the skills needed to start a business and keep it running and what he looks for when acquiring an online business.

Discussion topics include:

• The growth and changes in acquiring online businesses

• Adapting to the online business industry

• Combining business metrics with a gut feeling for what will work

• Starting with small websites to understand how online businesses work

• Monetizing websites through research and researching competitor websites

• Financial courses and programs that can help emerging entrepreneurs

• Three different Domain Magnate Funds and their investment requirements

• The benefits of having previous business owners as investors

• Risks involved with buying online businesses including being delisted by Amazon

• Selling and buying domain names

• More businesses and people going online

• Domain Magnate Podcast: https://www.domainmagnate.com/podcast/

• Domain Magnate Newsletter: https://www.domainmagnate.com/newsletter/

• Domain Magnate Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DomainMagnate

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Horacio spoke with Alan Goldsher, Head of Content at Collectable. Alan is the host of Collectable Daily, interviewing some of the biggest names in the sports industry. His guests regularly provide insights and commentary on the sports memorabilia industry. In this podcast, Alan also talks about being a professional musician, a published author, and his path toward being a podcast host.

Discussion topics include:

• Playing gigs around Chicago as a teenager

• Gigging and working at a record label in New York

• Playing with iconic musicians at Giant Step Club in Chicago

• Playing onstage with legendary trumpeter Clark Terry at the Grammys

• Starting his own record label, Gold Note Records

• Advice for aspiring sports journalists and writers

• Starting a writing career with a focus on romantic comedies, horror, and as a ghostwriter

• Developing the Collectable Daily podcast and keeping a rotation of guests

• Alan’s Hobby Mt. Rushmore, a Collectable Daily mainstay

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Horacio spoke with Artem Milinchuk, the Founder and CEO of FarmTogether. FarmTogether is a fractional investment platform for farmland. Since its inception, FarmTogether has offered fractional ownership across six different states with 12 different crops. Its mission is to continue democratizing investment opportunities in farmland while being an industry leader in sustainable farming.

Discussion topics include

• Getting to know the industry through a Canadian pension fund

• Realizing the farm industry had such few investment opportunities

• The current state and demographics of farmland in the United States

• Creating scalable capital to farmers to meet the challenges of the future

• Developing a farmland fund for financial institutions and retail investors

• Generations of farming families working the land

• California as a powerhouse of agriculture and SIGMA Regulations

• Farmland performing well as an investment and inflation hedge

• Historical barriers to investing in farmland for institutions and retail investors

• Finding favorable long-term trends for crops

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Horacio spoke with Arlan Ettinger, the President and Founder of Guernsey’s auction house in Manhattan. Guernsey’s will be auctioning off the Elizabeth Meaders Collection on March 15th at 2 PM ET. Arlan’s previous work with high-profile auctions has garnered worldwide attention and the Elizabeth Meaders Collection is no different. Ms. Meaders’s collection offers a comprehensive look at African-American history through one-of-a-kind artifacts acquired because of her life’s work to collect. Arlan provides unique insight into the collection and the buzz leading up to the auction.

Discussion topics include:

• Guernsey’s history of high-profile collections

• The scope and depth of Elizabeth Meaders’s collection

• A collection full of the good, the bad, and the ugly

• The lack of a comprehensive African-American Museum in New York City

• The impossibility of knowing who will buy the collection and for how much

• Valuing a collection with 20,000 items and comparing it to other historic auctions

• Using the collection to complement existing museum collections

• Guernsey’s work with pre-auction events to market collections for sale

• Auctions having unique characteristics and results

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