John retweeted
At the stadium for game 1 of the World Series! The gates are closed and no one’s here, but I bet that’s just because I’m early. Can’t wait for tonight! Let’s go Yankees!!
John retweeted
Required watch for every creative and every founder, from @brianeno
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Had the opportunity to chop it up with CEO @johnohannesian last week about the future of collectibles investing
@tashcards about to change the game
check 'em out
There’s never been a better time to invest in cards.
Join the waitlist at tash.cards for a chance to win an ’86 Fleer Jordan worth ~$10K
Every referral = 10 extra entries.
John retweeted
We’re giving away a 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan card worth $10,000.
Yes, seriously. 🐐
Join the tash waitlist to enter:
tash.cards
p.s. every person who joins using your referral link gets you 10 MORE entries.
Tag your friends. Stack your entries. Win MJ. 🏀 👀
John retweeted
Today, we're excited to launch @Stratum_Inc (YC S26), the applied AI company for governments.
Stratum builds AI agents that automate the slow, complex manual workflows governments run on. Starting with application review.
We're deploying AI across every vertical inside the government, clearing backlogs in a fraction of the time and saving agencies tens of billions in admin cost.
Get in touch: stratumindustries.co
John retweeted
grateful to be part of tash's rebrand, so much nostalgia - I use to collect pokemon cards and had a book full of pokemon drawings as a kid!
congrats on the launch @johnohannesian @victorshammas @nico_sharma - looking forward to working on the app experience and much more!
thank you to @mynameisyahia for referring us to Tash and many others at YC.
Today, we’re excited to launch @tashcards (YC S26), the investment platform for trading cards.
tash gives investors access to professionally curated portfolios of high-end trading cards.
tash is building the financial infrastructure to bring collectibles into public markets and make cultural assets investable alongside stocks and ETFs.
Join the waitlist: tash.cards
John retweeted
The most effective way to create wealth is boring.
It's "buy and hold".
I bought a Kobe card for $6,000 in 2007 and sold it for $17,000 in 2009.
I thought I won.
Today that card is worth over $2,000,000.
Be patient.
John retweeted
This is a great team of lads working on something incredibly cool.
I wasnt sold on trading cards till I spoke with @johnohannesian about their growth potential
super bullish on this company
Today, we’re excited to launch @tashcards (YC S26), the investment platform for trading cards.
tash gives investors access to professionally curated portfolios of high-end trading cards.
tash is building the financial infrastructure to bring collectibles into public markets and make cultural assets investable alongside stocks and ETFs.
Join the waitlist: tash.cards
John retweeted
We’re excited to share that tash is part of the @ycombinator S26 batch.
The four of us started building tash together at Berkeley, and it’s been an incredible experience taking this next step as a team.
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes and can't wait to share more very soon.
Massive thanks to @snowmaker & @raphaelschaad
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.@garyvee believes collectibles have replaced stocks and contemporary art as the status asset for younger generations.
"I believe collectibles have eaten up the pop culture energy of what young 20-year-olds would do with public stocks."
"Instead of buying 50 shares of Nike like my generation did, they're going to go buy a collectible. I think it's completely eaten up the oxygen of contemporary art."
"In my generation, people that collected cards as teenagers in the 80s and 90s were nerdy people. Collecting cards are now cool. Once that switch happens, it gets really different really fast."
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.@garyvee: "I've been in a 7-10 week cocoon around collecting becoming the next lifestyle genre."
"I think it's about to completely blow the roof off."
"I believe in 10 years, every Fortune 500 consumable product — apparel, CPG — will have a collectibles marketing strategy."
"You saw lines around the door at Popeye's for the One Piece collectible. People flooding to a Dodgers game to get the One Piece collectible."
"Differentiation in an AEO/GEO, agentic commerce world around collectibles and community to get people to stop their normal pattern of what they're just reordering — because they want to buy a deodorant that has a collectible of their favorite [entertainment thing]."