This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. And let me welcome in someone before I do though. Let me welcome him in and then we're going to talk. He is a

Renaissance man of sorts, you know, he's he's he's involved in a lot of things

i originally had him on to talk business but he's also involved in and preserving the

stories of our our ancestors who uh... dare to be free, who ran away from enslavement.

He's working on that.

That's a tech project.

He's heavily involved in the stock market and business.

And he wants everybody to live their live their best lives too so he's

living his and let me welcome him to the show Mr Bill Perkins welcome back sir

thank you it's great to be back.

Good to see you.

I invited you in because there were some things happening, right?

So I had the story that I held on to from last week.

And first story, Basquiat,

a Basquiat sold for $85 million Japanese e-commerce

billionaire. I'm just gonna say e-commerce billionaire,

uh, usaka, uh, Masawa, he sold his Jean-Michel Basquiat painting for $85 million, which included fees at the Phillips

auction house in New York last Tuesday and

this is amazing because of course Bosky I didn't make it he lived died at 27 age 27 in death. He is so much more popular, unfortunately. And this painting,

8 feet tall, 16 feet wide, is untitled. It was among Baskia's most monumental works and was completed in

1982, which was a turning point in his career.

Masawa had purchased the painting in 2016 for 57 million. So he earned 28 million more

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