NEW MONEY: From Bachelor to Crypto Bull – The Matt James Story
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
“All my life, I’ve gotten to where I’ve gotten to by doing things that other people wouldn’t do … putting myself into situations that could make or break me.”
Superstar Matt James is used to putting his head, heart and resources on the line, whether it’s on romantic reality show “The Bachelor” or investing in crypto. A self-described risk-taker, James wasn’t afraid to jump into the deep waters of crypto and start investing in bitcoin. Since his first investment, he’s become an all-out Bitcoiner, as he sports the emblematic laser eyes and the all-important #Bitcoin callout in his bio.
Matt James helps kick off the first installment of “New Money” with Spencer Dinwiddie and Solo Ceesay, CoinDesk’s new series exploring the intersection of blockchain and social media in the modern age. In this episode, James reveals his journey in crypto and speculates on where blockchain technology could go next.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:01.1 | Welcome to another episode of New Money with Spencer in Solo. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Solo Cisei, and today we're going to be talking to quite possibly the busiest man in America. |
| 0:10.3 | We are going to be talking to the most recent Bachelor, Matt James. |
| 0:13.5 | And quite honestly, he's a lot in common, a little bit more than you might think with my co-host, Spencer here. |
| 0:18.5 | So again, thank you for joining us today, and we hope you |
| 0:21.1 | enjoy the show. |
| 0:35.0 | What's up, everybody? This is Spencer Dinwiddie. And I'm Solo Cise. And this is New Money, brought |
| 0:39.9 | you by Coin Desk. And we have a very special guest here today, the man the myth of legend himself. |
| 0:45.9 | Who? Matt James, the Bachelor, aka the Bachelor. And so I'm going to start off, who is Matt James? |
| 0:54.3 | That's a good question, man. |
| 0:55.9 | Matt James is a risk taker. |
| 0:57.6 | All my life, I feel like I've gotten to where I've gotten to by doing things that other people wouldn't do. |
| 1:03.4 | And that's typically involved putting myself in situations that could make or break me. |
| 1:09.0 | You know, moving to New York City without a job, moving across |
| 1:11.8 | the country into an industry that I had no idea about. |
| 1:17.1 | Going on TV. |
| 1:17.8 | Exactly, going on TV, putting my life out there. |
| 1:20.5 | So that's how I've seen the most personal growth, and I would boil all that into being |
| 1:25.1 | a risk taker. |
| 1:25.7 | So I consider myself in my ethos risk taking. |
| 1:29.2 | Gotcha. And that doesn't necessarily mean like I'm jumping off a building. I would if it was like, |
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