BREAKDOWN: Travis Kling on Why Elon’s BTC Buy Was the Biggest Story of the Year
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🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Plus how institutional involvement in the space has changed.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza”, NLW is joined by Travis Kling. Travis is the co-founder and chief investment officer of Ikigai Asset Management, and discusses the shift in institutional involvement in the crypto space.
Find our guest on Twitter: @Travis_Kling
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| 0:49.7 | Whatever the odds you would put on Tesla buying a billion and a half dollars on the balance sheet |
| 0:54.0 | in 2021, in 2020 or 2019, somebody gives you odds on that, you would put on Tesla buying a billion and a half dollars on the balance sheet in 2021. |
| 0:55.2 | In 2020 or 2019, somebody gives you odds on that. |
| 0:58.0 | You'll, I don't want 50 to 1 on that or whatever. |
| 1:00.5 | And then it happens. |
| 1:03.3 | And then somebody said, make me odds on the likelihood that two months later, |
| 1:09.1 | he completely reversed his course and sh-s all over Bitcoin |
| 1:12.6 | on Twitter after he bought a billion and a half dollars worth of it. |
| 1:16.4 | What an unbelievable thing to have happened to do that about face. |
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