Mark Moss

I know this life meant for me.

Yeah, thanks.

I'm from Southern California, like you, and I cut my teeth buying bank-owned repos right out of high school.

Bank-owned repo.

In the mid-'90s, the banks were sitting on a glut of repos after the housing crash in California from, like, 89 to 92, and they were giving away zero down.

And so I was fixing and flipping them up in—

a young white boy up in south central compton watts yeah that that's what we did that's that's what we did and uh straight out of compton i built up uh two different tech companies a high-tech medical equipment company uh internet company that i started in 2001 after the dot-com crash got laughed out of the room uh two big exits but then 2008 came and when i got

knocked over the head, let's just say, right?

I was all in Southern California real estate, which is one of the worst markets in the world.

It made me go, shoot, I'm pretty good at business.

I made a lot of money.

I've had some big exits.

I've built some big companies.

But what is this global financial system that just has all this power over my life and I'm not even paying attention to it?

So after dusting myself off and vowing to my wife that this would never happen to us again, then I've spent the last, whatever now, 12, 15 years digging into macroeconomics and understanding the financial system, and I quickly understood that it's fiat currency and the over-leverage in the debt system, and I became a gold bug.

Then I became a Bitcoin guy, and now I'm a sound money advocate.

And I've been now talking about Bitcoin and macroeconomics on YouTube, as you mentioned earlier, for about seven, eight years now, speaking on big conferences.

I have a venture capital fund.

We fund Bitcoin companies.

I sit on the board of two publicly traded Bitcoin companies and just trying to spread wealth.