Sahil Bloom
63 statements across 32 episodes · 30 bullish · 16 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2021 by Sahil Bloom · said 40 times in 17 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2022 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
Everything said about Sahil Bloom, oldest first
Dec 3, 2021 bearish
Sahil Bloom: The market for fractional home ownership like Pacaso is tiny
“And then with Picasso, I just disagree with you guys on this. I just don't think there's a big enough market of people that are willing to shell out this amount of money To own one eighth or one 16th of a house. I just don't think it exists.”
Dec 3, 2021 bullish
Dec 10, 2021 bullish
Dec 10, 2021 negative
Bloom: Exclusive event guest lists contradict the ethos of Web3
“It's also web, like, crypto and web, like, it's, I, personally, I think of it as, like, open access, meritocracy, borderless, anyone can do it. A kid on the streets in India has the same access to that Discord channel as a kid growing up in Greenwich going to …”
Dec 14, 2021 negative
A Full DAO Buyout of the X Games Is Not Viable
“In a, you know, fully Dow approach, you raise fifty million dollars or a hundred million dollars, whatever the number is, and you go and just buy the entirety of the X Games. Why do I think that's challenging here? As much as I love that as a cultural moment f…”
Dec 14, 2021 bullish
Bloom Pitched a Web3 DAO Plan to Buy the X Games
“So I pitched an idea, basically, to web three-ify the X Games, to go and acquire it, form a DAO to go and buy the X Games and then completely reimagine it, both in a web two sense with more traditional media, cultural moments creating the, like, drive to survi…”
Dec 14, 2021 positive
Dec 17, 2021 positive
Dec 17, 2021 bullish
Bloom: Web3 drives a massive generational wealth transfer that incumbents oppose
“I mean, there's a massive generational transfer of wealth that's happening right now, and the incumbents don't like it. Insiders don't love the fact that anybody can get onto these on rails and operate in this system, but it's such a cool thing.”
Dec 23, 2021 positive
Jan 6, 2022 negative
Sahil Bloom lost a significant amount of money trading Ether Lambos
“Like, when we, when you first got me in NFTs, the first thing I did was go and do something stupid. Like, I didn't mean to, but I put some skin in the game, and I lost a bunch of money on Ether Lambos, and that was a great learning experience for me.”
Jan 11, 2022 negative
Bloom: Outdated financial infrastructure effectively penalizes 1099 contractors compared to W-2s
“10 99 income is effectively taxed at a much higher rate than w two, not in the sense of like an actual tax rate, but in the sense that you can't go get leverage on it. Good luck getting a mortgage with a bunch of 10 on income. If you have a million dollars of …”
Jan 19, 2022 positive
Bloom Claimed 3,000 LOOKS Tokens and Staked Them at 950% APR
“I think I claimed 3000 looks. And maybe I'm like embarrassing, but maybe that's not many. I don't know how many other people got. But it was worth, like at the time when I did it, I think it was worth Like, so in ETH you know, it was like five ETH and maybe a …”
Jan 27, 2022 positive
Bloom: Ignore Weaknesses And Double Down On Core Strengths
“You're much better off, and it's like, maybe it's contrarian advice, and it's a hot take, but, like, you're much better off just saying fuck it to the stuff you're bad at, and, like, I'm probably not gonna ever be amazing at those things I'm bad at. Let me jus…”
Jan 27, 2022 bullish
Bloom: Invested In CFTC-Regulated Prediction Platform Kalshi
“And then recently I came across this platform, which it called Kalshi, that I had a lot of fun with, was like, it was the first CFTC regulated, they, like, spent two years getting CFTC regulated
So there's no limits, and there's market makers, there's liquidi…”
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Bloom: Hype cycles are useful because they attract talent and capital
“And the reality with a lot of it is it's sort of a natural evolutionary feature, this hype, because it draws a ton of capital, but also a ton of talent into the space that will build the next layer of innovation. So even if we go through kind of a cycle where …”
Feb 15, 2022
Mar 11, 2022 neutral
Bloom: Equity investors expect 20%+ returns versus 4-7% for debt
“Equity investors expect a 20 plus percent return on their investment. Debt, right now, you could probably get debt in the mid-single digit. Yeah, depending on what it is, four to seven percent, four to six percent, depending on how risky.”
Mar 17, 2022
Bloom: Recovered funds sent to fraudster through FBI and institutional recourse
“I I've had that happen actually. Like I I've gotten like sent a wire to someone that, you know, did a, like asked for a wire and it was the wrong wire and you get the money back and like the FBI gets involved and it's, there's like real due process around it”
Mar 17, 2022 neutral
Mar 17, 2022 bearish
Bloom: Venture and crypto returns get squeezed by overcrowding
“This is an area that has opportunity because not many people are doing it. Thinking about it or want to spend time on it. It's like super sexy to invest in venture, growth, crypto, whatever. So returns get squeezed. Zig when other people zag and like do the th…”
Mar 24, 2022 positive
Bloom: Treat Steady Corporate Jobs as High-Yield Accounts for Asymmetric Opportunities
“It's like you as a human being, imagine yourself as like a pile of cash, like a million dollars of cash. You're just a pile of cash. And it's not always that you find the like perfect thing to invest that cash in, like to invest your resources in. And so somet…”
Apr 7, 2022
Apr 14, 2022 bullish
Bloom: I will keep buying Shopify even if it falls to $350
“I'm perfectly comfortable just like, you know, buying more and more Shopify as it goes from 6:40 where it is right now to like, it could be at three 50 and I'd still be buying on the way down. Right. Cause I believe it's going to be worth a whole lot more in t…”
Apr 14, 2022 neutral
Apr 14, 2022 negative
May 3, 2022 bullish
Bloom: Fed Will Pivot on Q2 Weakness, Fueling Growth Stock Rally
“My gut tells me that we're going to see like a pretty bad Q two from an economy standpoint. Like I wouldn't be shocked if we actually saw a negative growth and people panic. I think the fed will just like reverse course very quickly. Cause they've shown an unw…”
May 3, 2022 positive
Bloom: Top Creators Generate More Value for Twitter Than Billionaire Shareholders
“I have contributed more value to Twitter and like probably more innovation to Twitter than some random billionaire that owns a hundred million dollars of Twitter stock, like just full stop. I understand the product probably better. I understand the puts and ta…”
May 5, 2022 neutral
May 5, 2022 bullish
May 5, 2022 positive
Bloom: Holding excess cash and free time is a call option
“Cause to me, I think of cash as like a call option on future interesting opportunities. I like having more cash than anyone would say makes sense. And the reason I do that, I think of it as the same as free time, by the way, it's like now when something cool c…”
May 19, 2022
Sahil Bloom: The most impressive people reduce their emotional amplitude
“I've always found that the most impressive people in the world, like find a way to just reduce the amplitude. Like they never get too high. They never get too low. And they have these like So everyone has waves, right? It's going to happen. You're going to hav…”
May 26, 2022 bullish
Jun 17, 2022 bearish
Jun 17, 2022
Bloom: Automatic small bets follow recommendations from three smart friends
“And so now my new rule of thumb for what it's worth is if I have three smart friends tell me something, I automatically make a bet on it. Even if it's like a small bet, I just have a stock amount that I'll put into it so that I have some skin in the game that …”
Jul 7, 2022 positive
Fintech extension Kasheesh reached $10M GMV in three months organically
“Anyway, now fast forward like three months after initial launch and they're doing, you know, 10 plus million of GMV through this thing without having a single dollar of marketing expense yet. Have not spent a dollar. It's been all completely organic and like p…”
Jul 21, 2022 positive
Jul 21, 2022 positive
Jul 21, 2022 negative
Bloom: Business school is an easy default for those fearing career uncertainty
“I think like business school is like the it's like the uncertainty pick where like people aren't willing to tolerate the like uncertainty of what comes next at that first pivot point in their career. And business school is like the easy the easy answer.”
Jul 21, 2022 bullish
Bloom: Breakout Web3 games will come from major AAA studios
“Yeah, I think they're going to have to create like a You know, like a separate entity that kind of allows it to be more free ownership and it'll come from one of those big studios. Not a, I actually don't think it'll be a new studio that raises money.”
Jul 21, 2022 negative
Sahil Bloom: Most 200-page business books could be 2-5 page newsletters
“The entire like nonfiction book industry you know, business books, self-help books, like all of that stuff, the vast majority of those things are like 200 pages, but could have been said in a like two page or five page article or newsletter.”
Aug 18, 2022 negative
Aug 18, 2022 bearish
Bloom: Passive DCA into S&P and crypto dramatically beat his active bets
“I actually looked recently at my portfolio and like my five-year returns and the like smart investments I made like things where I thought I had edge or some sort of insight that was going to make it, you know, beat the market have underperformed the dumb doll…”
Aug 18, 2022 positive
Aug 25, 2022
Bloom: 1,000 people attended NYC meetup organized via spontaneous tweets
“So in the end we ended up having this event, I think in the, in total, like 1400 people RSVP. Saying they were gonna come to it. These two guys, Andrew and Topps, like, basically volunteered themselves to coordinate the event, found this insane venue in Lower …”
Sep 15, 2022
Sep 15, 2022 negative
Sahil Bloom: Content Creators Progressively Become Slaves to Their Audiences
“In a world of audience and in a world of these algorithms, we are progressively falling victim to what our audience wants. And effectively we are slaves of our audiences or of these algorithms, if that's what you believe in.”
Sep 22, 2022 negative
Bloom: Working capital gaps cause cash shortages during rapid retail growth
“You see a whole lot of businesses go under because of that exact dynamic. Like you're, you know, you're paying your producers so far in advance of when your retailers are paying you. It's like, you know, a terrible dynamic to have to deal with when you, especi…”
Sep 22, 2022
Mar 9, 2023
Isenberg: The '100K Club' Twitter chat sparked massive audience growth
“But yeah, we created this group chat. We called it initially the a hundred K club. It was like peak COVID. You know, summer, summer, I think, 2020 spring and summer 2020. And the idea was, how do we how do we build big audiences? We all had 10 to 15,000 Twitte…”
Apr 27, 2023
Aug 3, 2023 negative
Traditional publishing functions like VC, requiring massive hits to avoid failure
“I think, you know, he, cause I'm assuming he got a like a publishing deal. Totally different. It's like venture backed versus bootstrap. Totally different set of expectations, right? He, his book needs to sell a million copies or it's a failure, right? Like VC…”
Nov 16, 2023 bullish
Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025 negative
Bloom: Recurring meetings force teams to invent low-impact discussion topics
“Recurring meetings are a funny one too, because what I find happens is you create stuff to talk about on them. That's not actually impactful. You, you're like, oh, okay, I have this recurring meeting every month on the first Monday of the month. So I'm gonna h…”
Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025 positive
Bloom: Effective boards require advance updates to focus entirely on strategy
“The structure of board meetings when well done, which was The CEO and the board and the team would send around like maybe a week in advance a deck that was basically the business update and all of the key information about the business. And then the meeting it…”
Dec 15, 2025 positive
Bloom: Across 100 startup investments, winning bets backed founders over ideas
“I've probably invested in a hundred companies, but I have no, like, good frameworks. I'm not proclaiming myself to be good, but I have had a few lucky shots and the lucky shots are almost entirely because all I focused on was the founder, not the idea.”
Dec 15, 2025
Bloom: Unwinding scattered commitments took a year to focus on core projects
“It led me to a fairly painful, like one full year of like unwinding a bunch of things that I had my hand in that really made no sense. I was like, why am I involved in these things to the point where now I'm Heavily concentrated in like two to three things, bu…”
Dec 15, 2025 positive
Bloom: Subtractive optimization drives progress faster than adding new routines
“Identifying what those are and cutting the line, if you will, is the fastest way to make progress. We, as ambitious, high-performing people, Automatically assume that the fastest way to make progress is to add something new. You're like, oh, okay, I'm going to…”
Dec 15, 2025 positive
Bloom: Focus on activities providing natural pull for best life outcomes
“So the fundamental idea with both question two and question three, which we'll come to, is that your outcomes in life follow your energy. Idea being like when you are working on and leaning into things that create that lift, that natural pull, you create the b…”
Dec 15, 2025 positive
Bloom: Evaluate energy drains by aftermath feelings, not during the activities
“I focus on how do I feel after rather than how do I feel during for that exact reason working out, actually the example that you brought up there is the best one in my mind for me, because there's plenty of run workouts or different lifts or whatever, where I'…”