#136 with Jack Smith - Trading Cards and Collectables: A Deep Dive Into The Opportunities In The Space

I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to I'm putting my law in it like my day's off On the road less travel never looking back So in introduction here, this is Jack Smith. He's uh one of my one or two

closest friends. He's number one, dude. No, it's like there's like a couple of guys who are the crew. We have like a tight knit group. Jack doesn't like to brag. I'm gonna brag for him. But basically he started this company called Vungle, which was sold to Blackstone, the large PE company for I think seven hundred and fifty million in cash. They had raised a little bit of money, but not a significant amount. It was a wonderful exit. He also helped start this company called Ship. Which crash and burn, but it was awesome. It was cool while it lasted and it was a good idea. And then he was uh he had his did you know, Sean, Jack had his hands he was uh involved slightly with that. Rem that credit card that went viral in two thousand and thirteen or fourteen where it was like called coin and you click a button and it would change your debit cards. You could have five de Cards on one card.

Sweet concept. It was one card and then you just switch over you just push a button. It's like now it's your business. Now it's your travel rewards card or whatever else. I think it was a Kickstarter project, right, Jack? Or like you've got a big stuff. Yeah, it was like one of the first to use um Sandwich Video, which is the guy that has done videos for like Square and all these lot after his was one of the first ones to do it. And then it kind of went viral mainly because the video. So talk about the sandwich guy, because that guy is interesting, right? So he has if you haven't seen it, basically he was like an ad agency or not an ad agency, I don't know what to call it, but marketing agency. And he would make videos. And so people wanted their version of the the Dollar Shave Club launch video, which was like this really like funny, entertaining, but like told the company's story really well and got a bunch of customers, got a bunch of hype. And so

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