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Alts
by Horacio Ruiz
Alts is the leading Alternative Assets Podcast. Explore unique investment opportunities and ideas that aren't discussed as much. Hosted by Horacio Ruiz and Stefan von Imhof, we focus on alternatives to traditional assets; including collectibles, wine, watches, sneakers, NFTs, artwork, websites, farmland, equity crowdfunding, and even stuff like legos, billboards and private islands.Each episode explores a different theme, and usually includes an interview with interesting folks in the alternative investments space. Past guests include Ezra Levine, CEO of Collectable, Kenny Rose, CEO of FranShares, and Travis Winn from ZED RUN.On our website you can find deep-dive issues on all topics, and sign up for our weekly newsletter.- Website: https://alts.co- Discord: https://discord.gg/DEkHgzggwC- Twitter: https://twitter.com/altassetsclub- Insta: https://instagram.com/alts_co- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpmgk4gzQ56QvpyegBJJVQA
Episodes
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Dutch Mendenhall: Real Estate, Farmland, and Financial Education with RAD Diversified
In this episode, Dutch Mendenhall updates listeners on RAD Diversified, a private real estate company with shareholders. Dutch also talks about the company’s new branch, RADD America, and its focus on farmland and raw land development. Dutch gives several business insights on financial education,...
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Cormac Kinney: Investing in Diamonds
In this episode, Cormac Kinney discusses the products Diamond Standard developed to commoditize diamonds and the future of diamond investing. Diamond Standard has developed diamond bars and coins using statistical analysis to make trading decisions for diamonds easier, in the way markets…
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Anthony Morena: Real Estate Investing in New York City
In this episode, Anthony Morena details how Mortar Group has invested in real estate in New York City for more than 20 years. Mortar Group is a boutique real estate firm specializing in ground-up builds and value-add renovations. Anthony talks about the Mortar Group’s unique approach to real...
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Rob Connolly: Human Capital and Investing in Athletes with Finlete
In this episode, Rob Connolly speaks to Alts about Finlete, his startup allowing retail investors to invest in young professional athletes in return for a share of their future professional contracts. Rob talks about the company’s reason for focusing on minor league players, how Finlete’s player...
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John Green: Investing in Cities with Nada.co
In this episode, Horacio speaks with John Green, Nada's founder, and CEO. John discusses the advantages of accessing home equity through Nada's Homeshares program. John describes how the Homeshares program ties into Cityfunds, Nada's platform for investors looking to "own a piece of a city." John...
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Adam Littlefield: Premium Short-Term Rentals and Investing Globally
In this episode, Horacio speaks with Adam Littlefield from Investment.com. In this video, Adam talks about how Investment.com is focused on buying homes to turn into premium short-term rentals. Adam describes the characteristics of premium short-term rentals and how Investment.com plans to...
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Kyle Kuderewski: Investing in Online Businesses by Leveraging Industry Experts at EF Capital
In this episode, Horacio speak with EF Capital’s Kyle Kuderewski. In this video, Kyle gives a behind-the-scenes look at investing in online businesses through EF Capital. In this episode, listeners can learn about the operators that run the online businesses for EF Capital, how industry expertise...
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Litan Yahav: Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, and Organizing Personal Finances with Vyzer
Litan Yahav, Co-founder and CEO at Vyzer Horacio spoke with Litan Yahav, the co-founder and CEO at Vyzer. After selling his first startup with co-founder Tomer Salvi, the business partners needed help to keep up with their private investments. Vyzer organizes financial portfolios in one place:...
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Michael Episcope: Creating Multifamily Real Estate Funds with Origin Investments
Horacio spoke with Michael Episcope, the co-CEO at Origin Investments. Michael has helped build Origin Investments from a small real estate investment company, to one of the best-performing companies with more than $1 billion of assets under management. Michael talks about how Origin is…
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Adam Jason: Investing in the Largest Coffee Producer in Colombia
Horacio spoke with Adam Jason, an Alternative Asset Manager at the Legacy Group. Legacy’s largest holding is the Green Coffee Company. Green Coffee is the largest coffee producer in Colombia. By 2026, Adam aims to have the company responsible for providing 1% of the global coffee supply. In this...
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AcreTrader's Michael Iseman: Investing in Farmland and Working with Farmers
Horacio spoke with Michael Iseman from AcreTrader about the operations behind AcreTrader’s farmland investments. In this episode, Michael talks about how the agricultural business meets the finance world through its relationships with farmers and investors. This episode is a deep dive on farming...
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Trung Pham: Retrofitting Window Shades for Convenience and Energy Efficiency
Horacio spoke with Trung Pham about his company, RYSE SmartShade. In a not-so-obvious market, Trung is looking to capitalize on the 95% of non-automated window shades by retrofitting them with a tiny frame-mounted motor. This motor can be used to retrofit nearly all shades that are moved by…
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Noble and Barnaby: A New Way to Create and Invest in Music with BAND Royalty
Horacio spoke with Noble Drakoln and Barnaby Andersun, the co-founders at BAND Royalty. Noble and Barnaby have more than 60 years of business experience. Noble has been investing in music royalties for nearly 60 years, and Barnaby is a world-renowned expert in blockchain technology. BAND Royalty…
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Max Album: Wines and Spirits on the Blockchain with Blockbar
Horacio spoke with Max Album, the Chief of Staff at Blockbar. In this episode, Max talks about how blockchain technology safeguards against fraudulent wine and spirit products. He also deep-dives into how brands use NFTs to leverage customer relationships. Max also talks about the relationships...
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Dylan Marma: Investing in Mobile Home Communities and RV Campgrounds
Horacio spoke with Dylan Marma, the Founder and CEO of The Requity Group. Dylan has created multiple funds focused on affordable housing in the southeastern United States. His funds include commercial multi-family apartments, mobile homes, and RV campgrounds. In this episode, Dylan talks about…
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Eric Witschen: Collecting Wisely at Neustreet
Horacio spoke with Eric Witschen, the CEO at Neustreet, where collecting wisely is their approach to alternative assets. Eric talks about his collecting journey leading up to his career as a financial analyst and creating a marketplace aggregator at Neustreet. This episode has a little bit of...
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Paul Gambill: Selling Carbon Removal Credits to Improve the Environment at Nori
Horacio spoke with Paul Gambill, the CEO at Nori. In this episode, we discuss how Nori is selling carbon removal credits through its innovative NRT product on the blockchain. We talk about Nori’s mission to improve the environment, how it is using regenerative agriculture to remove carbon from…
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The Tokens Awards: A First of its Kind NFT Award Show
Horacio spoke with Antares Vargas and Narumi Inatsugu, co-founders of The Tokens Awards. The Tokens is a first of its kind event for the NFT community. Antares and Narumi are veteran award show producers, and are using their experience to highlight a diverse set of artists across several mediums....
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Jesus Garcia: Collecting Pokémon Cards and Other Trading Card Games
Horacio spoke with Jesus Garcia, a Pokémon expert and the Consignment Director for Trading Card Games at Heritage Auctions. Jesus talks about the origins of Pokémon and some reasons for its enduring popularity. We also touch upon some of the most valuable trading cards in the Pokémon franchise....
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Diane D'Amato: Investing in Luxury Handbags and the Hermes Brand
Horacio spoke with Diane D’Amato, the Director of Luxury Assets at Heritage Auctions. Diane is an expert in luxury handbags. She has a wealth of experience in the auction industry and in private markets. In this episode, Diane talks about Hermes as the leading luxury brand, what makes these bags…
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Chris Zhu: Artificial Intelligence, NFT Gaming, and Digital Native Beings
Horacio spoke with Chris Zhu, the co-founder and CEO of Mirror World. There is some mind-blowing technology at play here. Mirror World looks to be at the intersection of NFTs, the metaverse, artificial intelligence, and interoperability. In this podcast, find out how Chris is building the…
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Iris ten Teije: Fractional Investment Platform Koia and the European Market
Horacio spoke with Iris ten Teije, co-founder of Koia. Iris turned a career in fintech into an opportunity to start Koia with her expertise in retail investing. Koia is a fractional investment platform allowing investors to buy shares of rare collectibles and luxury items. Koia is also at the...
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Joe Burrill: Online Business Broker, Generating Passive Income
Horacio spoke with Joe Burrill, the founder of Just Website Brokerage. Joe is the highest-rated website broker on Flippa.com, an online marketplace for online businesses. In this episode, Joe shares how he got started with online businesses and how he transitioned into becoming a broker. This one...
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Mark Montero: Vintage Graded Toy Collectibles at LCG Auctions
Horacio spoke with Mark Montero, the toy-focused LCG Auctions' founder, and CEO. In this episode, Mark talks about his experience in the memorabilia industry that led him to found LCG Auctions. The discussion highlights the historical appreciation of collectible toys, emerging asset classes like...
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Leore Avidar: Investing and Borrowing in Alternative Assets
Horacio spoke with Leore Avidar, the founder and CEO at Alt. When it comes to sports card marketplaces, Alt is one of the leading platforms in the space. Alt offers a number of features and services, including an exchange and weekly auctions. Leore, a sports card enthusiast, is looking to build...
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Kristian Kielhofner: Fighting NFT Fraud and Disinformation
Horacio spoke with Kristian Kielhofner, the founder of Tovera. Tovera is a platform built around a verification program to detect fraud in digital assets. Tover recently launched FNFTF.io, a database using proprietary algorithms to determine if NFTs are authentic. Kristian’s development of the...
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Swati Chaturvedi: Investing in Deep Tech and Doing Due Diligence at Propel(X)
Horacio spoke with Swati Chaturvedi, the co-founder and CEO of Propel(X). In a wide-ranging discussion, the podcast touches on due diligence, alternative investments in technology and science, democratizing investing, investing in a turbulent market, and the investment opportunities on Propel(X)....
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Brian and Drew: Building on the Blockchain, Crypto Law, and DAOs
Horacio spoke with Brian Harstine of Acquire and Andrew Hill. Andrew is a managing associate of the law firm Frost Brown Todd, and one of the leading experts in blockchain and cryptocurrency law in the country. Brian is the CEO of Acquire, a company that is tokenizing securities of private equity...
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Cameron Hejazi: Cent, Twitter, and NFT Artists
Horacio spoke with Cameron Hejazi, the co-founder and CEO of Cent. Cameron created Cent in 2017 with the purpose of creating a community where artists could share their work and build a fan base. Cent made headlines when Valuables, its NFT marketplace of Tweets, minted Jack Dorsey’s first tweet…
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Zak and Kareem: Alternative Investments During a Volatile Market at AltExchange
Horacio spoke with Zak Boca and Kareem Hamady, co-founders of the online platform AltExchange helping financial advisors and individual investors keep track of their funds. Zak and Kareem talk about the current state of the market and provide some insight on how to weather downturns. They also…
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Alex Engel: Rare Edition, a New Card Grading Company Making a Splash
Horacio spoke with Alex Engel, the CEO of the new card grading company Rare Edition. Alex goes behind-the-scenes to talk about the latest developments at Rare Edition and their goals as they enter a competitive market with one of the nicest quality and cutting edge slabs in the card industry....
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Mark Thiele: The Metaverse, Data Centers, and Technology Consumption
Horacio spoke with information technology and systems expert Mark Thiele. Mark is the founder and CEO of Edgevana, whose company mission is to disrupt the existing processes for selling and buying colocation, edge and data center services. In this episode, Mark talks about creating edge, or the...
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Mendy Ouzillou: Dealing and Collecting Meteorites, Holding Moon Rocks
Horacio spoke with meteorite collector and dealer Mendy Ouzillou. Mendy is the founder of SkyFall Meteorites and the Founder and President of the Global Meteorite Association. In this episode, Mendy recaps his trip to the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, talks about the current state of the meteorite...
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Alfonso De Gaetano: Accessing the Greatest Wines, Nurturing Passionate Wine Drinkers, and Leveraging Blockchain Technology
Horacio spoke with Alfonso De Gaetano, the Founder of Crurated. Curated is a wine membership platform, allowing wine enthusiasts to buy great wine straight from the producers. Crurated’s partnerships enable it to offer wine from some of the most highly regarded domaine’s in Europe. In addition,...
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Anthony Hayes, "Enemy of the Studios," Talks Film Finance and the Blockchain
Horacio spoke with actor and director Anthony Hayes, whose latest release, Gold, is now available on major streaming platforms. Anthony is also the creator of Retrogression; the first movie franchise started from the blockchain. With Retrogression, Anthony is looking to disrupt the traditional...
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Creating Content on Social Media for the Sports Collectibles Market with Sam Farber from Goldin Auctions
Horacio spoke with Sam Farber, the Head of Business Development and Content at Goldin Auctions. Sam oversees content development at Goldin, helping to bring a creative and engaging voice to the leading sports collectibles auction house. In this episode, Sam talks about the latest auction at…
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Talking Graffiti and Urban Art's rise in popularity with Walter Ramirez from Heritage Auctions
Horacio spoke with Walter Ramirez, the Contemporary and Urban Art Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions. Walter oversees Heritage’s curation of the growing Urban Art scene. Since its creation in 2018, Walter has seen Urban Art auctions increase exponentially. Graffiti and pop culture are...
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The benefits of Investing in Farmland with LandEx CEO Kamel Belkadhi
Horacio spoke with Kamel Belkadhi, Co-founder and CEO at LandEx. LandEx is a fractional investment platform for farmland in Europe. Currently, LandEx has invested in farmland in Estonia, where the company is based. Its investment platform is open to retail investors in Europe with minimum...
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Staking Your Claim in Online Property with Your Link in Bio for Web3 with Nf.td Co-founder Victor Ma
Horacio spoke with Victor Ma, Co-founder of Nf.td. Nf.td is Your Link in Bio for Web3. By minting your online username through Nf.td, you can claim your username before others get a chance for Web3 and broadcast it on various social media platforms. Victor talks about his road toward developing...
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Tokenizing fractional investments of Private Deals with Acquire CEO Brian Harstine
Horacio spoke with Brian Harstine, Co-founder and CEO at AcquireInvest. Acquire is an investment platform tokenizing securities on the Ethereum blockchain for retail investors. Acquire, currently in beta, will also look to offer investment opportunities usually found in private deals, including...
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Building Greener, Smarter, and Off the Grid with Pangea Builders CEO Jonah Reynolds
Horacio spoke with Jonah Reynolds, CEO at Pangea Builders. Pangea Builders is a design and build firm for sustainable and off-grid buildings. Pangea focuses on the home's water, power, wastewater, and heating/cooling systems. In this episode, Jonah discusses the benefits of sustainable off-grid...
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Investing in fractional vacation homes with Here Founder Corey Ashton Walters
Horacio spoke with Corey Ashton Walters, the Founder and CEO at Here. Here is an investment platform fractionalizing shares of vacation rental properties. Here is focused on bringing quality homes as vacation rentals to market in popular travel destinations. In this podcast Corey discusses the...
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Creating Financial Advisors with a Specialty in Sports Memorabilia with Howard Epstein
Horacio spoke with Howard Epstein, a financial advisor and life-long sports memorabilia collector. Howard wrote a whitepaper advocating for dedicated partnerships between wealth management firms and sports memorabilia experts. Howard argues that such business connections would benefit wealth...
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ALTS 1 FUND Podcast Special: Alts Co-founder and CIO Wyatt Cavalier and Investment Analyst Tully Ross
Horacio spoke with Alts Co-founder and CIO Wyatt Cavalier and Investment Analyst Tully Ross about the unveiling of the ALTS 1 Fund. Wyatt and Tully talk about building the fund, finding new insights on overlooked asset classes, and using data to drive the Alts investment strategy. Wyatt also…
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Investing in Rockets, Satellites, and Combustion Systems with Spaced Ventures Founder Aaron Burnett
Horacio spoke with Aaron Burnett, Founder, and CEO of Spaced Ventures, an investment platform for startup space companies. Think of companies in satellite imaging, space insulation, rocket fuel tanks, and radiation barriers. Spaced Ventures democratizes investment into the next frontier, with...
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Antiquarian Map Dealer at Argosy Book Store, Laura Ten Eyck
Horacio spoke with Laura Ten Eyck, the 2nd Floor Gallery Director at the Argosy Bookstore. Laura is an antiquarian map dealer, vice president of the New York Map Society, and a regular guest on the PBS Antiques Roadshow. In this episode, Laura talks about what makes maps valuable collector’s…
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Strategies and tips for Starting and Investing in Online Businesses with Domain Magnate Founder Michael Bereslavsky
Horacio spoke with Michael Bereslavsky, Founder and CEO of Domain Magnate. Domain Magnate is an online business brokerage specializing in the buying and selling of viable business websites. Domain Magnate also has an online business fund open to accredited investors. In this episode, Michael and...
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Creating Content and Talking Music with Podcast Host Alan Goldsher
Horacio spoke with Alan Goldsher, Head of Content at Collectable. Alan is the host of Collectable Daily, interviewing some of the biggest names in the sports industry. His guests regularly provide insights and commentary on the sports memorabilia industry. In this podcast, Alan also talks about...
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Farmland, Climate Change, and Investing with FarmTogether with Artem Milinchuk
Horacio spoke with Artem Milinchuk, the Founder and CEO of FarmTogether. FarmTogether is a fractional investment platform for farmland. Since its inception, FarmTogether has offered fractional ownership across six different states with 12 different crops. Its mission is to continue democratizing...
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Guernsey's Auction House Founder and President Arlan Ettinger
Horacio spoke with Arlan Ettinger, the President and Founder of Guernsey’s auction house in Manhattan. Guernsey’s will be auctioning off the Elizabeth Meaders Collection on March 15th at 2 PM ET. Arlan’s previous work with high-profile auctions has garnered worldwide attention and the Elizabeth...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Alts is the leading Alternative Assets Podcast. Explore unique investment opportunities and ideas that aren't discussed as much. Hosted by Horacio Ruiz and Stefan von Imhof, we focus on alternatives to traditional assets; including collectibles, wine, watches, sneakers, NFTs, artwork, websites, farmland, equity crowdfunding, and even stuff like legos, billboards and private islands.Each episode explores a different theme, and usually includes an interview with interesting folks in the alternative investments space. Past guests include Ezra Levine, CEO of Collectable, Kenny Rose, CEO of FranShares, and Travis Winn from ZED RUN.On our website you can find deep-dive issues on all topics, and sign up for our weekly newsletter.- Website: https://alts.co- Discord: https://discord.gg/DEkHgzggwC- Twitter: https://twitter.com/altassetsclub- Insta: https://instagram.com/alts_co- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpmgk4gzQ56QvpyegBJJVQA
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