195: Diving into the Metaverse with Virtual Reality Picks
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Sam's been taking a deep dive into the "Metaverse" concept that is coming. We take our first step into the submject by going over some picks in the Virtual Reality space based on John Divine's article found HERE. After the interview, Sam and Derek talk about where they see the space going and potential plays for the Metaverse. This is the first of a series of shows that will focus on potential investment ideas in the upcoming Metaverse.
John Divine is a senior financial markets editor for U.S. News & World Report, where he’s been covering the stock market, Wall Street and the economy since 2016. Prior to U.S. News, Divine covered the stock market for The Motley Fool and InvestorPlace.
The year before beginning his career as a financial reporter, Divine graduated with honors from Appalachian State University, where he majored in Finance & Banking in 2011. Out of college, he spent some time at Merrill Lynch and Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, a commercial real estate arm of BB&T.
Since turning to journalism, Divine has appeared on numerous financial media programs – discussing Wall Street earnings, acquisitions, valuation and other issues – including Cheddar, Money Life With Chuck Jaffe, iHeartRadio, WSJ Radio and WBBM Chicago, as well as several other outlets.
Mr. Divine has been referenced, cited, linked to, quoted or published on many of the most well-read and respected publications in the world including The New York Times, the L.A. Times, Forbes, Barron’s, USAToday and CNBC. Learn more about John HERE.
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- Johnny FD – Ukraine / IG @johnnyfdj
- Sam Marks – Barcelona/ IG @imsammarks
- Derek Spartz - Venice Beach / IG @DerekRadio
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Time Stamps:
- 06:44 – When did you get interested in virtual reality and the metaverse?
- 09:37 – Have you tried on any of the VR headsets as yet?
- 12:16 – How do you see the hardware and software being implemented and consumer friendly?
- 13:41 – What are the types of companies that will profit from virtual reality?
- 15:02 – What are your stock picks?
- 18:32 – Who are the leaders in the operating system?
- 24:39 – Do you have any other thoughts on the metaverse?
- 32:40 – Sam and Derek review
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| 0:00.0 | What is up bosses? Before we start this week's episode, I want to tell you about our sponsor. |
| 0:04.5 | It is Fundrise. Now, in 2021, a truly diversified portfolio needs more than just the traditional |
| 0:11.2 | mix of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. You need to be in private real estate. And that's where |
| 0:17.5 | Funrise comes in. In fact, Johnny, Sam, and myself have all personally invested |
| 0:22.8 | in Funrise even before they were a sponsor of Invest Like a Boss. So if you want to check out Funrise |
| 0:28.9 | for yourself, I'm going to tell you more during the break, but get a head start. Go to funrise.com |
| 0:34.3 | slash like a boss. That's F-U-N-D-R-I-S-E dot com slash like a boss. Now on to this week's |
| 0:42.0 | episode. Welcome to the Invest like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Marks and I'm Johnny F-D. We're |
| 0:47.5 | self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss. |
| 0:51.4 | Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest like a boss. Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of |
| 0:54.2 | modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned |
| 0:58.7 | cash. What's up bosses? Welcome to episode 195. We're getting ever so close to that 200 |
| 1:09.7 | episodes. My name is Derek Sparts. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm home here in Venice Beach, and Sam is actually not in Barcelona. |
| 1:17.4 | Where are you joining in from Sam? |
| 1:19.1 | It's somewhere with horrible internet, so we're hoping this works out. |
| 1:23.0 | Horrible internet must be only one place, my house in South Carolina. |
| 1:26.8 | But we are getting fiber soon |
| 1:29.2 | i'm happy to say but right now i'm uh yeah i'm basically in the woods with one bar dialed in especially |
| 1:35.1 | for this episode on something very exciting uh but i'm actually heading back to barcelona in just a |
| 1:41.2 | couple days i'm flying in packing packing another bag, flying to Miami |
| 1:44.3 | tomorrow morning at 4 a.m. and picking up my visa, hopefully. And then immediately after |
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