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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!

Let's say, for example,

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

an ID verification for $5, except that because there's a secondary market for it, these things were trading for five times, 10 times what they were initially issued up.

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

They became like a stock.

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

Well, in order to be a stock, you have to be regulated.

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?