Kevin O’Leary on the asset class that beat everything else in his portfolio
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The country that has the best AI wins all the wars, has all the productivity, has the enhanced economy, and solves problems faster. And you don't want that to be China because they don't believe in the same things we do. They'll use that to create the largest economy on Earth and worse, the best military on Earth. So chop, chop, everybody, we gotta get going. |
| 0:26.6 | First off, I gotta ask, what's around your neck right now? |
| 0:31.6 | So this is a Skybox Jordan. |
| 0:34.6 | Nine were made, 1997, PSA 6.5. Cards worth around 5.2 million. Somebody |
| 0:42.8 | bought this for nothing back in 97. I love this asset class. It's appreciated better |
| 0:49.6 | than any of my other indices and I love wearing these things. This is so |
| 0:53.7 | outrageous. It is so outrageous. |
| 0:54.7 | It's so much fun. |
| 0:56.0 | I wore this on the red carpet at the Oscars, this Tiffany case, |
| 1:00.1 | paired it with a Rolex, which I think works beautifully, and an F.P. |
| 1:03.9 | Jorn. |
| 1:04.7 | I mean, this stuff is too much fun, but I'm making money owning this. |
| 1:09.4 | That's what I care about. |
| 1:10.7 | You are. |
| 1:11.2 | And tell me what excited you and what got you into the collectible asset class, |
| 1:15.6 | especially around sports cards. |
| 1:16.8 | Michael Rubin was a guest shark on Shark Tank four years ago, |
| 1:20.0 | and he said, you should go long collectibles. |
| 1:22.4 | I said, you're crazy. |
| 1:24.1 | I mean, a piece of cardboard for $20 million, that's a joke. |
| 1:33.3 | Then I found myself last August, three in the morning, bidding on a dual logo man, Kobe Jordan Auto. |
| 1:35.3 | It was at $8 million when my wife went to bed and she said, if you buy that card tonight, |
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