The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q Yeah. Okay. So let me, let me, let me make this like super real for a second. I'm on masterworks.io. I see a piece by Monet. It says purchase price, 310,000 dollars sale price, sixteen million total return, 51 X over 41 years. Have you or masterworks you've, you bought this piece It's 41 years ago for 300 and like, how does it actually work? Who holds inventory?

A Yeah. So, so you're actually looking at, um, what we call our price database. So we have a research team of 25 interns that have went out and collected over 80,000 paintings that have been bought and sold at public auction. And then what the returns have been on those, those particular artworks for collectors. So it's really, that's, that's a unique way of trying to understand what returns have been in the art market, uh, over the past several decades. So those aren't offerings that we've currently done, but, um, you know, we've done, I think now we've done 14 to 15 different offerings between one and ten million dollars per painting. Uh, we're launching about one offering every two weeks now. So that's, that's roughly the cadence of, of the platform.

AI assessment note: “So those aren't offerings that we've currently done”

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Q And try and the best you can make this real for like software founders and investors listening right now. If, if like, is this an asset class they should consider in their portfolio?

A Yeah. So I think, I think the really interesting thing about art is if you, if you think about a very high level, the total size of the asset class is 1.7 trillion dollars. Um, if you look at the performance of that asset class, um, Uh, at least for, for the majority of art created, it's outperformed the S&P. Uh, and we did a, we did a research study with Citibank in, in, in 19 that concluded that it was also uncorrelated. So when you think about the definition of a strategic asset class, it's something that beats inflation and is uncorrelated. And art, art clearly meets both of those criteria. So we believe it has a role in, in every portfolio.

AI assessment note: “So we believe it has a role in, in every portfolio.”

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