Top 4 Lessons from Warren Buffett + The Future of Crypto in Gaming

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3:22What are the top four lessons we should learn from Warren Buffett dominant in the market this year? Number one, not to deviate from your plan. I know it's a lesson that gets talked about a lot, but it's probably one of the most important ones. Number two, build your portfolio regardless of what's going on that you won't have decay or destruction in it. A lot of times, remember like in 2020 and 2021, you had people criticizing Buffett as if he's not the greatest to ever do this. There's a reason he's been able to sustain for all of these years. And even after losing Charlie, they haven't lost a step.

4:01I think number three, that lesson around him just taking in data and reading five or six hours a day is really important because I feel like too many investors are emotional in their decisions and not fact-based. And then lastly, just to focus on the companies that are going to give you the tax return and block all the noise out. I think a lot, especially in our community, I can only imagine how many people have lost out on money just by solely listening to the track, to be paid to try and tighten away audience and viewership from us. It didn't work. but I just go back to 2021 we had the little war with rules challenge people that lost out on money just not listening to Microsoft's video so blocking out the noise but most importantly building a portfolio that is destruction free regardless of what happens in the right yeah oh boy you killed a generation of

5:06investors i would just like to say

5:14i think um one of the the most valuable lessons is that trimming at your highs trimming at the high that's a great yes right like i remember in november in uh october when he was trimming at Apple and it was climbing to its all-time highs and he was taking profits and he sold off and people were like, well, why is he doing that? And we were kind of saying like, you know what? This guy's too smart. He's doing this for a reason. He knows something we don't. We kind of couldn't figure it out. And then you see what happens here in early January with the deep chain inside the semiconductor space. Then we see what happens with the tariffs and basically, I mean, they had information for sure of kind of where this thing was headed.

5:57And so a lot of times people will say, oh, my gosh, the stock is falling, stocks falling. I need to take profit now before I lose it all. Or it goes back to my buying point. But he didn't do that. Right. Like he sold at highs, got max profit, kept it on the sideline and he just lived by his age old adage. Right. When everybody is fearful, be greedy. And when people are greedy, be fearful. And see, when you start seeing things run to its all time high and especially after the election we saw that run up in a bunch of companies in an s p as well and in bitcoin people got greedy to profit now if you look at that fair and greed index it got it wasn't a single digits uh a couple weeks ago yeah people are extremely fearful and he's sitting with a treasure chest and so that's a valuable lesson that when you hit some of your marks whatever your benchmark is whether it's 20 30 sometimes i know people are looking for 100 return especially in the options you know they want to get 100 or they want to get to a thousand percent make sure that you trim some profits to have reserves because there is going to be another pullback it's just part of the life cycle of the market and you can make uh some really really good decisions that can change your portfolio and your life yeah pokemon is reportedly looking at um release crypto back on solana's blockchain nft component to it is that something that you know you're interested in i thought it was um fascinating that a brand like this would do it i'm only one day we're gonna have competition about web 3 maybe next week nft community i need y 'all to come give you my flowers but not pokemon but if call of duty aggressive does something and they deploy nft i would be interested that would give it validity because we haven't seen a company of scale playing that market there's been some offshoot brands and offshoot players that have been in that space but if there is real value there i wonder if there's a way they can include that into their own ecosystem and make it viable i don't want to be very clear i'm still peaking a few days i think you're a good project but it did get my brain turning on the caller duty or far cry no i think it's interesting i mean i think well first of all a lot of y 'all okay let's wake it up i'm hey you're trying to find pokemon you need to find your girl first that's crazy because it's like you priority

8:36trying to look through the bench meanwhile that was back on the upper west side moments ago

8:48like i was supposed to tell you where she's been at um no i think so shout out to aaron a plumber wait what you know what happened to son no no no no he calls me he calls me recently when when he what is it what is it not to be confused with brian where is he june brian pumper oh my god no they disrespected him they disrespected no but let me finish but all right so not because i was gonna go to the pokemon but tron justin's son was the ceo here's the ceo of tron he was a dude that was eating vaseline um he was he was tron was supposed to be the coin for gamers yeah because that was the whole thing of like there's a lot of money like if my son asked me for money one more time for in-app purchases inside of 2k yeah i'm like you're spending more money on this than clothes like in real life like you're spending more money to enhance your players profile than you are like on actually real life items for your like daily use so this millions billions of dollars being spent in in app games so if they have their native currency yeah i think that's actually something that makes a lot of since so i spent a lot of hours studying tron so that that was that was part of that story like i remember calling him and like yo you need to come back home i found something and a lot of hours were spent doing that because of that i think pokemon specifically it's it's past the time for pokemon right this happened 10 years ago and it's like semi-peak right when it came out and you had the Game Boy games and a couple years ago when they were actually using technology like you said to try to catch Pokemon or even when the trading cards I know in the late 90s that became a thing but then it had a resurgence and you kind of see like even Logan Paul who was wearing the Pokemon there was a moment you could see how like the NFT thing would have been crazy for Pokemon like we're talking about ridiculous valuations for those I think you nailed it though Ian with your projection for GTA 6 though that's the game they get Rockstar involved so Call of Duty more so from a standpoint where yes you can upgrade your XP to get more weapons and things of that nature maybe gear GTA 6 is an entire world like a lifestyle that's the ecosystem like that is a whole world you can see like if something is on the blockchain in there that's gonna that's gonna go crazy roblox mine but like what they have that population is a little younger right so like well maybe not but the gta thing is like i'm i i want to see that game like like real like people who grew up on those games like you want to see it because this is the the first version that's going to be on the new generation systems.

12:07And anticipation has been incredible for it. So this is finally the year for it. And we talked to T Grizzly about how people are monetizing inside that space and how they have to get new service and things of that nature. So imagine if that was actually a considered effort to make it under a blockchain and whoever, I mean, they're probably working on it now. That's going to be something that would be very interesting to look at and invest in. Yeah, but I think it's the only ecosystem that has a fan base. And it's like the product. And it never ends. Yeah, it never ends. So that's the one. If they have an NFT, I'm interested, bullish on it.

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