Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, November 19th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Well, they didn't pull it off after all.

Constitution Dow lost the Sotheby's U.S. Constitution auction last night to an undisclosed

winners' 43.2 million bid after the Dow crowdfunded a total of about $40 million, quoting

Forbes.

Constitution Dow set a goal of $20 million, the high end of what Sotheby's had originally

estimated the document could fetch.

By Tuesday, it had raised $5 million and a day later over $40 million.

It's not clear how much the group eventually raised or why it wasn't able

to surpass the winning bid. The Constitution's previous owner, Dorothy Goldman, plans to

donate the proceeds from the sale to her foundation which supports constitutional

loss study. She should be pleased the transaction represents a 24,700

percent return on the $165,000 her husband, real estate developer S Howard Goldman, paid for the Constitution in 1988."

So my question is, was the key flaw here that they revealed or at least hinted at exactly how much money they raised and thus had to spend.

That's sort of breaking the golden rule of an auction, right? You don't want others to know what your limit is.

I actually watched the whole thing live and as soon as it hit that $40 million mark you could

see on the face of the lady on the phone that they probably weren't going to go any further.

Still you got to admit given that all this came together in just a week, what this community

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