Shkreli: Turned a profit selling Wu-Tang album during the NFT boom
Martin Shkreli · Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445) · Apr 20, 2023 · at 53:02
Former biotech executive Martin Shkreli discusses how he settled approximately $8 million in court fines after being released from federal prison.
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“I decided to sell the Wu Tang album which is a funny thing because there's this NFT bubble and I basically said, oh, like if I turn this into an NFT or sell it to a crypto bro, like, you know, I'll, I might even get my money back on this thing because it was basically just, you know, a lark and I didn't think I'd I marked it as down like 75%, but I was able to actually turn a profit on it, so I was happy to time that bubble well.”
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