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Milk Road Deal Briefly Stalled Over Unexpected Gambling Sponsor Revenue
“One of the times it fell apart was we got into the diligence after we'd already agreed on a number and there was a little more gambling, gambling sponsor revenue there than we thought.”
Saville Netted $23 Million From His Early JM Bullion Angel Investment
“You got like twenty three million.”
Wittmeyer: Bootstrapping Makes Massive Multi-Billion-Dollar Outcomes Much Harder to Achieve
“I think one thing you probably lose though, is it's, in my opinion, it's harder to have like the really big outcome. If like the things we're doing or historically have done, it's hard to, It'd be like a ten billion dollar company from that stuff. And I think …”
Wittmeyer: Bitfo would have walked away if final Milk Road offer failed
“At the end, like when we made that final, you know, the last little chunk, we were, that was it for us. We had said, we're walking if this doesn't work.”
Wittmeyer Sold His Online Poker Affiliate Business For $565,000 At Nineteen
“I sold, I was further into it. I sold for 565,000 and I was, I think, 19 then.”
Wittmeyer: JM Bullion Benefited From Confusion With Johnson Matthey
“We knew so little about this space when we started that we named it JM Bullion using our initials and We had no idea that, like, one of the largest refiners of gold and silver in the world is Johnson Matthey, and so we actually got a big boost early on because…”
Wittmeyer: Early Ripoff Report review cut JM Bullion sales by roughly 30%
“There's a site called ripoffreport.com, where anyone can go on there and file, like, hey, this company or person screwed me, and he did that, and we were so early that, like, there were no jamboy in reviews anywhere, so when people searched that, that was the …”
Wittmeyer: I Have Capital Trapped on Genesis
“We have, I have money on Genesis that I don't know what's going to happen to it, but that one was pretty stunning too.”
Wittmeyer: Milk Road Hits Record Subscriber Growth During Market Crash
“What's been interesting for the milk road and our businesses, you know, this has actually been for growth, a good thing, right? We cover the news and there's certainly been a lot of news. So we're seeing, you know, record subs coming in that the reader scores …”
Wittmeyer: Mentor invested $1M in JM Bullion despite losing processor
“To his credit, he put a million into JM shortly after Kendall did his first angel investment. Like a week before it was going to close. We had done all the documents. It was ready to go. Our credit card processor throws us out. And that was like half of our re…”