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One of the philosophies we've always had, and personally myself, too, is let's build as

little as possible because the real MVP of the first product was really to find out, one,

if people cared at all, and two, what angle they cared about, right?

So I think that when you think of Masterworks,

we can clearly have two very obvious angles, right? Go to the art fanatics, people that know a lot about art and pitch them the story of fractional ownership, democratizing of art. Or two, you can

go to the more the alternative investment, diversifier portfolio, protect the downside with an asset class that's real physical asset.

My name is Alberto Simon, and I'm the co-founder and CPO of Masterworks.

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