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Howard Marks

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

You have to file with the SEC documents.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

They were not doing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

And guess what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

The SEC came up recently and I wrote an article about it and they are very upset and they want the marketplace to realize that it's fraud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

We securitize everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

And we're doing everything by the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

And think about this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

We're able to issue shares in a company for pennies on the dollar where it used to be you'd go to a broker and say, hey, I want to raise money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

Unless you're raising millions, they won't do it for you because it's too expensive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

Very easy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

There's $300 billion in the world of crypto, Bitcoin, Ether, $300 billion of value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

They have a need to invest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

Why?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

They want to diversify their portfolio, just not own Bitcoin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

They want to own many coins, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

So they go and look for anybody who's issuing them and they go in on the website and they transfer from their Bitcoin wallet to the wallet in the company and the company gives them the tokens.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

And then they take those tokens and they go on to the exchanges and they sell them for more money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

It's a huge business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!

And the whole premise is all those ICO companies, the initial coin offerings, are mostly SaaS companies.