Josh Luber
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Um, so yeah, so I, I absolutely, you know, considered it, but like, this is the better path to, and you, and you get to start all this from scratch, right? You get to build a company from scratch, taking everything we've learned. And you can look at 25 years of Medicom, things they've done well, things they've done, done poor, and you don't have to correct it. You can just start new.
Um, so yeah, so I, I absolutely, you know, considered it, but like, this is the better path to, and you, and you get to start all this from scratch, right? You get to build a company from scratch, taking everything we've learned. And you can look at 25 years of Medicom, things they've done well, things they've done, done poor, and you don't have to correct it. You can just start new.
So that's pretty great too.
So that's pretty great too.
Well, also under the category of funding the company yourself and not having to answer to investors or billionaire MBA owners is we started making Ghosts in August of 23. Wow. So we spent a year, all we did is make goes to give them away. So we ran a company with 10 employees making products in China and all we did was give it away. So under the money part of this.
Well, also under the category of funding the company yourself and not having to answer to investors or billionaire MBA owners is we started making Ghosts in August of 23. Wow. So we spent a year, all we did is make goes to give them away. So we ran a company with 10 employees making products in China and all we did was give it away. So under the money part of this.
And I thought that was important from a brand standpoint, from building the credibility within the industry of partners who might wanna work with us. And we finally started selling Ghosts in August of 24. We've done four releases so far. We've actually done three. The fourth one is currently ongoing. And this was the first one.
And I thought that was important from a brand standpoint, from building the credibility within the industry of partners who might wanna work with us. And we finally started selling Ghosts in August of 24. We've done four releases so far. We've actually done three. The fourth one is currently ongoing. And this was the first one.
Everything, all the Ghosts, same three sizes, bare brick, which is you have a... I have a... This is actually a gift for you. This is a sample of 100%. This is one of the first 3D printed samples. It looks like drugs. It's not drugs. So this is 100%. This is usually for blind boxes, and we can talk more about that.
Everything, all the Ghosts, same three sizes, bare brick, which is you have a... I have a... This is actually a gift for you. This is a sample of 100%. This is one of the first 3D printed samples. It looks like drugs. It's not drugs. So this is 100%. This is usually for blind boxes, and we can talk more about that.
But this size, which we call the 100%, the 400%, which is this size, and then the 1,000%, which is about 28 inches tall, And here, this is for you. Thank you. These basically don't exist, by the way. These were internal samples. Only one has been sold. We sold it at VCon live with the VFriends guys and went for $510. Nice. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.
But this size, which we call the 100%, the 400%, which is this size, and then the 1,000%, which is about 28 inches tall, And here, this is for you. Thank you. These basically don't exist, by the way. These were internal samples. Only one has been sold. We sold it at VCon live with the VFriends guys and went for $510. Nice. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.
and then so the third size is 28 inches so the three they released all this size which is 11 inches all sold on stock excuse me on ghost right as a blind Dutch auction which means that we don't set the price the market sets the price this one there were 20 units sold sold for $1,026 a piece the second one which was with Rocky's Matcha which is a local matcha company here in LA there were 20 excuse me 30 units
and then so the third size is 28 inches so the three they released all this size which is 11 inches all sold on stock excuse me on ghost right as a blind Dutch auction which means that we don't set the price the market sets the price this one there were 20 units sold sold for $1,026 a piece the second one which was with Rocky's Matcha which is a local matcha company here in LA there were 20 excuse me 30 units
It sold for $500 with a clearing price. And the third was Eastside Golf, which there were 30, and that one sold for $300. And so this is what we do. We get to make ghosts, and the flagship and the core is this size, 11 inches. But then as we evolve on, the 100% size, the blind boxes, that will really be the future of the company. What is a blind box? So blind boxes are trading cards.
It sold for $500 with a clearing price. And the third was Eastside Golf, which there were 30, and that one sold for $300. And so this is what we do. We get to make ghosts, and the flagship and the core is this size, 11 inches. But then as we evolve on, the 100% size, the blind boxes, that will really be the future of the company. What is a blind box? So blind boxes are trading cards.
You open a pack, you open a box, you don't know what you're going to get inside. um this is the first time that i'm showing the wnba blind box uh we have licenses with the nba with the wnba uh with um uh major league baseball and all three players associations and this is the wnba blind box is going to come out in december There are 16 players.
You open a pack, you open a box, you don't know what you're going to get inside. um this is the first time that i'm showing the wnba blind box uh we have licenses with the nba with the wnba uh with um uh major league baseball and all three players associations and this is the wnba blind box is going to come out in december There are 16 players.
Here's a checklist that I'm not showing on camera, but it includes people like Caitlin Clark and Asia Wilson. And then it has parallels that have all different color crowns, the same way that, say, Prism works, where you have your base color and then you have gold numbered to 10 and you have black one of one and all the different things. I mean, we get to take everything.
Here's a checklist that I'm not showing on camera, but it includes people like Caitlin Clark and Asia Wilson. And then it has parallels that have all different color crowns, the same way that, say, Prism works, where you have your base color and then you have gold numbered to 10 and you have black one of one and all the different things. I mean, we get to take everything.