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Ken Van Vorhis: Living in a Tesla to Build Wealth: A Bold Strategy. | DSH #1509
26 Aug 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
dude those girls with tripods scare me they scare me bro i'm so afraid i'm like oh man there's a tripod right there like yeah don't don't want to look there's literally whole videos of them posting guys that's what i'm afraid of bro that's what i'm afraid of it's like i'm just trying i'm just here trying to do like my my freaking um like the dip machine i'm just trying to do the dip machine and like someone sets up right in front of me and starts doing squats are you serious why
Chapter 2: What inspired Ken to live in his Tesla?
Okay, guys, we got Ken here. This man is a very interesting person living out of his Tesla and giving good advice on social media.
Chapter 3: How does Ken invest his money while living in a car?
So thanks for hopping on, man. Thank you.
Chapter 4: What is Ken's daily routine while living in his Tesla?
Thank you. Yeah, not every day you run into someone that lives out of their car.
Chapter 5: How does Ken maintain his health and wellness on the road?
And it's by choice for you, right? To be clear. It is 100% intentional. Yeah, that's a very unique way to live life.
Chapter 6: What challenges has Ken faced in his dating life while homeless?
What was the inspiration behind that? Well, I wasn't happy with the results that I was getting. Like I felt like I wasn't moving fast enough. Like I was trying to buy as much crypto as I possibly could and I wasn't getting anywhere. Like something would always come up and I'd get screwed.
Like my car would break down or I needed to help out with my friends with something and I wasn't stacking my portfolio the way that I wanted to. And so then eventually it got to the point where it was like the first year was coming around and my lease was up and I'm like,
Chapter 7: How does Ken view the mindset around poverty?
you know what, I'm just going to live in my car. And like I saved extra thousand dollars a month right away. And then we've just been doing it ever since. And you put that thousand in the crypto or how do you invest your money? Yes. So I put every single cent that I can into cryptocurrency. Wow. I was able to put a lot more in the earlier months.
But then recently there's just been once again, like something's always coming up, you know?
Chapter 8: What lessons has Ken learned from losing friends during his journey?
Yeah. And so I feel like you just got to outrun that. Interesting. So if you had to look at a pie chart, what percentage of your liquid net worth is in crypto or not? A hundred. A hundred percent? A hundred. You have nothing in the bank? No, no. It's my, I think one of my banks is overdrawn right now. Like I just, I put everything in. Wow.
I will say now with these crypto credit cards, that is actually a possible lifestyle. But I feel like before you kind of needed some cash, you know? Yeah, like you can pretty much live off of cryptocurrency alone right now. Like I've heard that BitPay, you can pay your rent and other bills directly from a wallet. Wow. It'll just convert it and send the money right off. That's interesting.
Also, I'll say there's some really smart people that are putting a lot of their liquid capital into crypto right now. I just had on Grant Cardone's brother and he put 86% of his money into Bitcoin. Yeah. Are you all in on Bitcoin or do you spread it out? So for me, I'm looking for more gains in like the next four months.
Like I was looking for a 12 month period where I can make as much as possible. So I decided to focus a little bit more on altcoins. My largest holding right now is XRP. So I rode that from 55 cents even before I was homeless. The money that I had in, I rode that from 55 cents up to like, I think like 320. Wow. Is what it peaked out. And right now, I mean, we're doing good again right now. Yeah.
So you're up 6X on that. Yeah, I'm up a pretty decent amount. Do you want to sell it or do you want to just keep holding it? I'm going to keep it for now, but I do plan on selling everything before the next bear run. I do believe in more of like a Bitcoin maxi stance where I just want to buy and hold and never sell. Right. But that has to be later on.
I got other things in my life that I want to clear up that I think could launch me farther in the next bull run. And then I will never sell the Bitcoin that I accumulate in the next bull run. Yeah, because with Bitcoin, you could just leverage that and take out loans against it, right? That's my plan. My plan is to just hold it until it gets institutional adoption.
And then I can just take loans against Bitcoin, just like a HELOC against a house. And it's a lot more liquid and I don't have to worry about any control on it pretty much. There's already some companies because when I was buying a house, that was an option for me. I was thinking about doing that. And there are a couple that will give you money. I've heard that there's two main options right now.
There's one company that will give you 40% LTV. And then there's another company that will give you, like if you put up one Bitcoin as collateral, they'll give you another. And so you can basically just like leverage yourself 2x on Bitcoin. But I'm not entirely sure how that works. I haven't explored it. Yeah, I'm sure there'll be more and more competition in the future with that.
But it's looking good because right now getting a house the traditional way is insane. Oh, it's impossible. I mean, I live in Orange County. Average mortgage where I'm living right now is like $12,000 a month. It's insane. And the amount that you need down, I mean, even with an FHA loan, you still are going to need it like $100,000 down minimum. It's insane. That's nuts.
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