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Horacio spoke with Elizabeth Meaders, owner of the world's largest private collection of African-American artifacts. Ms. Meaders’s collection includes 20,000 items spanning from the pre-Revolution slave era through the Civil Rights Movement. Through her collection, Ms. Meaders tells an American story she feels has all too often been ignored and forgotten. In its entirety and one single lot, it will be up for auction through Guernsey’s auction house in Manhattan on March 15th at 2 PM ET. Appraisers have put the collection's worth at between $7.5 - 10 million.

Discussion topics include:

• The beginnings of her collection

• Finding new items to collect through sports shows and catalogues

• Filling knowledge gaps through the artifacts in her collection

• The possibility of using the collection to open a new museum

• Her desire to see her collection at The Obama Presidential Library

• Medals dedicated to Crispus Attucks and the Benjamin Butler Medal

• Her responsibility to see that her collection gets a new life and a new embrace

• Stewarding a potential windfall according to her life philosophy

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Horacio sat down with Nick Mathews, Co-founder, and CEO of Mainvest. Mainvest is an investment platform fractionalizing startup equity into small businesses. Mainvest has grown out of the pandemic, supporting small businesses in communities across the country. A former Uber executive, Nick saw a market opportunity to crowdfund for small companies when traditional lending institutions would not. To date, Mainvest has helped raise capital for nearly 200 small businesses through its investment platform.

Discussion topics include:

· Working with small business owners while at Uber

· Disparity in access to private equity between tech startups and small businesses

· Internal vetting of small businesses beginning with community evangelism

· Small businesses priced with their own returns with a minimum $100 investment

· Mainvest’s additional utility as a marketing tool and engagement campaign

· Helping small businesses beyond the debt instrument

· Small businesses creating long-term career paths for employees

· Filling gaps for bias in institutional lending and capital distribution

· Innovation in the small business space

· Working with city councils across the country

· Communicating the effectiveness of the asset class and quality of the returns

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Horacio sat down with Mike Keys, COO at SCP Auctions. SCP Auctions, based in Southern California, was established in 1979 and is one of the country's leading sports memorabilia auction houses. Mike joined the company in 2019 and has seen firsthand the rise in sports memorabilia and the rise of new asset classes like Type 1 Photographs and Ticket Stubs.

Discussion topics include:

• The effects of the T206 Honus Wagner on the SCPs most recent auction

• Using a database of buyers and sellers to source auction items

• Advantages and disadvantages of being a sports memorabilia auction house on the West Coast

• Mike’s journey toward becoming COO at SCP Auctions

• Switching from a non-sport industry to working at SCP

• Authenticating items on the front-end to avoid questions about their provenance

• Meeting demand for shifts in preferences among sports memorabilia

• Memorabilia with the potential to see the same gains as sports cards

• The upcoming SCP Spring auction preview / highlights

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Horacio sat down with Dr. Bill Sutton, Principal at Bill Sutton and Associates and the Director Emeritus of the Vinik Sports Management Program at USF. He also served as Vice President of Team Marketing and Business Operations at the National Basketball Association working directly with Commissioner David Stern. Dr. Sutton's monthly column for the Sports Business Journal regularly challenges sports leaders and executives. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading voices in the sports marketing industry, having decades of experience in academia and the private industry.

Discussion topics include:

• Creating the Vinik Sports Management Program at the University of South Florida

• Transitioning from academia to the sports marketing industry

• Bringing the industry into the classroom and creating experiential learning

• Working at the NBA as VP of Marketing under Commissioner David Stern

• David Stern’s influence

• Improving work conditions and benefits in the sports industry

• Innovating the sports industry through employee benefits and technology

• Selling season tickets for dogs at Petco Park in San Diego

• Selling virtual reality and the metaverse to the sports industry

• Staying connected to build relationships and networks

• Thoughts on the NIL in college athletics

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Horacio sat down with Ali Moiz, Co-founder and CEO of Stonks. Stonks is an online platform that allows founders to pitch their companies to hundreds of accredited investors and venture capital funds at the same time. Or as they put it: Imagine if Twitch, AngelList, and Shark Tank had a baby.

Ali previously co-founded StreamLabs which was a free software tool allowing livestreamers to overlay features on their content and procure donations and payments. StreamLabs was acquired by Logitech for a reported $120 million.

Discussion topics include:

• Defining venture capital and angel investors

• Going against your instincts as an investor to stay patient

• Being forced to hold onto an investment for 7 - 10 years as a venture capitalist

• His journey as a young entrepreneur to selling StreamLabs to Logitech

• Hitting roadblocks for several years at StreamLabs before finding success

• The corporate culture of Stonks to connect founders with investors

• High signal investors and thought leaders that garner followers

• Democratizing access to venture capital through Stonks

• Using the StreamLabs model as a vertical for venture capital

• DemoDays at Stonks with hundreds of investors watching a handful of founders pitch their companies

• Getting feedback to founders through the livestream process

• Examples of founders that have found success on the Stonks platform

• Startup investing as an under-allocated asset class

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Horacio sat down with Amir Carlisle, Co-founder and CEO of The Players Company. The Players Company is a modern financial collective for athletes, by athletes. The Players Company mission is to help athletes build wealth and cement their legacies through access, education, and community. Amir talks about the vision of The Players Company, his football career, the perils of athletes and money, and a desire to help bridge the racial wealth gap.

Discussion topics include:

• The concept of generational wealth

• Creating a digital banking system to put value back in a community

• Structuring The Players Company as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)

• Playing big-time college football and the sacrifices that come with it

• The Learn-to-Earn Protocol to fund money back into the DAO treasury

• Using the social capital of athletes to give back to a broader community

• The NFT release and its role as as a governance token

• Hosting meet-ups with NFT holders and business executives and athletes to create networks

• Creating a $TPC crypto token that is backed by a traditional banking assets

• Joining The Players Company Discord channel to contribute or to learn more about TPC

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Horacio sat down with Alexander Valtingojer, Co-founder and CEO of Coinpanion. ​​Coinpanion is an investment platform based in Austria offering different cryptocurrency portfolios curated for a range of risk tolerances. Coinpanion uses a dynamic asset allocation framework to build their CO2-neutral portfolios with weekly rebalancing.

The portfolios currently have more than 60 million Euros under management. This is a great conversation on how a founder built his investment platform and the logic behind its structure.

For our listeners in Europe! Coinpanion is offering a credit of 20 Euros when you fund a portfolio with a minimum 50 Euros on the platform. Make sure to use the Coupon Code: ALTS20.

Discussion topics include:

• Trading game keys on Steam and getting paid in bitcoin in high school

• Shifting crypto earnings from gaming into ETFs

• Overview of Coinpanion as a passive asset portfolio

• Bitcoin as a scarce digital asset and digital gold

• Copy trading as a riskier form of investing in assets

• Investing with long-term potential in mind

• The portfolios and risk tolerances offered by Coinpanion

• Using data-driven systems to analyze cryptocurrencies

• The fundamentals behind the Coinpanion Crypto Score

• Rebalancing portfolios based on risk parameters

• The NFT and Metaverse Portfolio

• Describing cryptocurrencies as a risky asset class with potential for big rewards

• Defining risk with different metrics

• Creating CO2-neutral portfolios

• Using an increased amount of energy in the short-term to build a better long-term financial system

• Comparing the European cryptocurrency market to the American and Asian markets

• The future of the NFT economy

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Horacio sat down with Kenny Rose, Founder and CEO of Franshares.

Franshares is the only platform making franchise investing accessible for anyone with as little as $500.

Kenny’s views on franchising have been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, ABC, The Hustle, American Express, the Amazon feature book “More Than Just French Fries,” and other publications around the world.

Discussion topics include:

• Overview of Franshares and the advantages of investing in franchises

• Franchises covering more than 100 industries

• The growing pains of starting a franchise in the first five years

• Finding the right franchise for people with specific skills

• The case for diversifying your portfolio into alternative assets

• Giving access to a greater audience to invest in alternatives

• Incentives for investors currently on the waitlist

• Franshares looking to make a social impact

• The effects of the COVID pandemic on franchises in the investment fund

• One diversified fund available for all investors

• The genesis for Franshares from the pandemic

• Passive income for investors into the franchise fund

• Franchises as members of the local business community

• Awaiting SEC approval and platform launch

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Horacio sat down with Ken Gloss from the Brattle Book Shop. The Brattle Book Shop has been in the family business since 1949 and has become a Boston landmark ever since. Ken is internationally recognized as one of the leading book appraisers in the world, regularly appearing on the PBS Antiques Roadshow. Ken is also a past president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America’s New England Chapter. He also sits on the Associate Board of the Boston Public Library.

Discussion topics include:

• The History of the Brattle Book Shop in Boston

• A trend of younger customers going to the shop

• Growing up in the bookstore and treating it like a business

• Learning the business from his father, George Gloss

• Working with the PBS Antiques Roadshow

• How the tastes of book collectors have changed over time

• Buying large private collections

• How the internet has changed the book buying and collecting business

• Thoughts on the fractionalization of first edition books

• One day finding Tamerlane by Edgar Allen Poe

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Horacio sat down with Co-founder and CEO Ryan Frazier and VP of Investments Cameron Wu from Arrived Homes. Arrived allows you to easily invest in rental properties by buying shares of fractionalized homes to earn rental income and appreciation. For as little as $100, you can invest in a rental property without purchasing a whole house or dealing with operational and maintenance headaches.

Discussion topics include:

• The beginnings of Arrived Homes in Arkansas

• Choosing housing markets and key home characteristics

• Decisions that go into buying specific homes

• Texas and Las Vegas as examples of states experiencing population growth

• Partnering with property management companies to run local operations

• Opportunities for investors, returns on investment, fee structure, and holding periods

• The difficulties of operating a real estate firm across different states

• Home buying program and giving sellers 10% retained equity

• Giving tenants a positive experience in Arrived homes

• Accomplishments throughout the business and platform-building experience

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