Hi everyone, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the BOF podcast.

A few weeks before Voices 2018, a young guy showed up at my office for an appointment, dressed in a hoodie and sneakers, to talk passionately about the business he founded,

Stock X, an online marketplace that enables the buying and selling of high-demand consumer products.

As someone who has collected sneakers for more than 30 years,

Josh Luber understands the inherent long-term value in these products,

and he created a platform that connects buyers and

sellers using the same method as the world's stock markets. I instantly knew this was someone

we should have at Voices, and miraculously, Josh's schedule was free, and he agreed to fly over

from his native Detroit to answer the question, is luxury next on the stock market of things?

Here's Josh Luber at Voices 2018.

I just want to preface this by I am like the lighthearted break.

Everything has been so unbelievable and powerful.

This is not that.

How I got here, so Carly is a friend and investor, and about a month ago, she said, you

should meet Imran.

And I didn't get through 15 minutes of explaining what we do, and he's like, you've got

to come to voices, so I'm here.

To be fair though, we did change my entire presentation because we didn't want this to be too

commercial, but it's unbelievable to sit here for the past day and see the unbelievable speakers

and topics and all that.

And so what we did was we said, I literally, this is true, I changed my whole deck,

and I just put in random pictures from my phone.

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