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Episode 25: Jason Koonce on trading cards as a financial asset, cornering the market on an early Tiger Woods card, and J Lo's under-rated work ethic

Boardroom Talks

Boardroom Podcast Network

Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4620 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jason Koonce is founder and CEO of Detroit-based OTIA Sports, a major player in the sports card and memorabilia industry, with ties to sports legends, including Magic Johnson, Hulk Hogan, and Joe Montana. The self-described “poker degenerate” is also a poker whiz, who once won over a million dollars in a single tournament. In this special episode of Out of Office, Eddie Gonzalez, co-host of the ETCs podcast with Kevin Durant, joins Rich and Gianni in this conversation about Jason’s start in trading cards, and his belief that trading cards have become a serious investment, as potentially valuable a long-term asset as gold or bitcoin.

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0:00.0

What's up? Everybody, welcome to another boardroom out of office. This is podcast number 25.

0:13.0

I promised Gianni, I wouldn't come up with an athlete who wore the jersey 25. So that game's over,

0:18.3

gee. Man, I'm glad because I don't have one I don't have one either bro

0:22.9

and I didn't even have one when we were at 23 like I was just failing so new game new game new vibe

0:30.0

and this podcast this week is a whole new vibe in itself first of all we got someone from the family

0:36.9

we got Eddie from the et. We got Eddie from the

0:38.9

etcs. What's up, my brother? What's going on, guys? Happy to talk to you guys, always. Eddie's our

0:45.5

podcast, brother. Yeah, Eddie is, uh, for those who don't know, but I bet anyone listening to my show

0:51.5

knows, probably just KD fans.

0:54.5

They were like, let me listen to his manager's show.

0:56.5

So you know Eddie is KD's co-host and friend.

1:01.4

And another friend is with us today, my friend, Gianni.

1:05.3

You know I'm obsessed with the trading card world.

1:07.8

But I'm like newly in love.

1:09.7

I'm like in honeymoon stage where our guest

1:12.8

has been in this since he was eight, nine years old. He'll tell us. But Eddie, you know how we got

1:19.0

this boardroom breakers vertical. Well, our guest, Jason Kuntz, who's coming up in a second,

1:24.0

has his own show. I'm sure you've seen the Coons Report. And not only are we,

1:28.2

not only we getting him on the pod, but he is recording the pod today. I geeked out a bit, bro.

1:33.7

I geeked out. I'm not going to lie. He is on the set of the Coons Report. So we might hear some

1:40.5

crazy echo or something because the Coons report set is actually his gym,

1:45.2

but I'll let him tell us about it. So without further ado, Eddie Gianni and all of our listeners,

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