Mark Cuban
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So then I was like, look, I don't need to be greedy, right?
I got this bee next to my name and I'm happy with that.
And so I did this thing called a collar where it was a public company, Yahoo, and I sold calls and bought puts to protect my downside and give up some of the upside, protect my downside, collar it.
Not three months later,
Everything craters.
And they called it one of the top 10 trades in Wall Street history.
No, no.
The companies were cool.
It was just the valuations in the stock market.
Like literally.
Would come to New York and be in a cab and people will be talking about all you broadcast calm, right?
Oh, I bought that I mean everybody was talking about stocks like now people talk about crypto or whatever But you're not getting in your uber and everybody's talking stocks and that's the difference It was just you could just tell it was just people are just too excited about trading stocks There would be ads on television, you know, let's trade stocks and
It was just a different world.
Oh, yeah.
Everybody getting into Robin Hood and buying and selling crypto.
Yeah, yeah.
We thought that.
To the moon, right?
Nobody does.
Like, it was weird, like, when it first happened.