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Matty Mo: Major art institutions primarily function as tax avoidance mechanisms
“Major institutions, because they're set up to sell a certain type of product to a certain type of person for a certain type of results. And that's mostly really expensive products as a store of value and sometimes a way to avoid paying taxes.”
Matty Mo: Most artists produce decorative goods, not generation-defining cultural artifacts
“Some people think of art as like The most important cultural artifacts of a generation, and to be real, many artists are not making the most, most important cultural artifacts of a generation. They're making pretty things, and what are pretty things? Decoratio…”
Matty Mo: Viral TikTok art styles can be monetized as subscription boxes
“Any content that's going viral related to a creator inventing a new style of making work and sharing it on TikTok is a product that could be sold on a monthly basis as a box company or in a marketplace.”
Matty Mo: Tier-two cities offer billboard cost arbitrage for mural agencies
“The opportunity lies in individual, individuals realizing that they're in a tier two city, a tier three city. There's no other mural agency in town, and you can effectively arbitrage the cost of buying a billboard or arbitrage the cost of generating social med…”
Matty Mo: Local mural ad agencies can scale to multi-million-dollar businesses
“One for the CPM advertising that you can sell a comparable to that of a billboard to an advertiser. And two, For the artistic creation of the mural, so the services associated with that, and that can very easily scale to a multi-million dollar business”
Matty Mo: Local mural advertising agencies operate at 60% profit margins
“You're at 70% margin, and then maybe pay the building under 10%, thousand bucks a month. All of a sudden you've got a 60% margin business, and it's just churning out murals.”
Matty Mo: Tier-two mural agencies are acquisition targets for Lamar Advertising
“No, and then you become an acquisition target for a Lamar, Billboards, or Colossal Media because they need to expand their current efforts, which are mostly based in tier one cities.”
Matty Mo: Artistic creation processes and techniques generally lack copyright protection
“Now you could do this without permission and just go out and do it because there's no real copyright on the process for the most part.”
Matty Mo: Small-town infrastructure faces a fire sale as aging retirees die
“All of this infrastructure is going to become available for sale, largely because the kids of these retirees don't want to move back to these small towns because quality of life isn't there.”
Matty Mo: Founders can build profitable property arbitrage empires on Hipcamp
“And just like folks built these Airbnb empires, I suspect you could do this with hip camp.”
Matty Mo: High-traffic advertising murals cost advertisers $10,000 to $20,000 monthly
“One mural placement can be anywhere from 10 to 20,000 dollars in a high traffic area.”
Matty Mo: DIY craft kits have built-in viral TikTok marketing loops
“People are also, a second macro trend is people are more and more becoming content creators, and this is a product you buy that allows you to create content around your purchase. And in doing so, you're inadvertently, or kind of kind of, Proactively marketing …”