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Salomon Aaron

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328 total appearances

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Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Definitely.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Don't you think with the kind of advent of AI and aren't we going to be surrounded by dinosaurs in 20 years' time?

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Yeah.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

The Bloomberg office headquarters is going to have triceratops roaming it.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

I mean, this is a big call.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

If I had to bet, I bet they're not going to reappear.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

But I'm just joking.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

100%.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

If you imagine a lot of these private collectors will set up private museums and I would go one step further, you know, that's exactly, that underscores the interest in dinosaur fossils because, and this is why we kind of pivoted to this, this market, because if you type into Google Modigliani or Jeff Koons, and you look at the search results, the number of people who search have searched for Jeff Koons or whatever, it's

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

It's totally eclipsed by the searches for a Triceratops or a T-Rex.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

There's universal interest in these dinosaurs.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

And actually, whenever we do an art fair, we're kind of inundated by children and by people of all ages who come up to us and say, isn't that 50 million?

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Isn't that 100 million?

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

I say, no, it's actually half a million.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Or no, it's 55,000 pounds.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Or it's 8,500, 7,000 for a fast sale.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

But, you know, but...

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

That explains why dinosaurs have kind of exploded in price because people, especially children, love them.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

And they are much more universally kind of admired than a lot of the modern masters or kind of art market categories that will fall out of favor every five or 10 years.

Odd Lots
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Yeah, I agree with you kind of your call on that.