Sasha Vujacic says he and Kobe Bryant spoke English on defense, then switched to Italian on offense so Tony Allen couldn’t understand them Sasha: That’s why when we played them, like he was the one actually, when Kobe and I would speak on the basketball court, he would come and listen, and we started speaking Italian. They’re like, ‘What? What is he talking about?’” Tony Allen: “I knew it. I knew it. I like, bro, they just said something in English on the defensive end. They get on the offensive end, they speaking a whole another language.” Z-Bo: “You knew it, huh?” Tony Allen: “I promise you I knew it. Yeah, cuz I’ll be overplaying, and then y’all saying something to make when you go back door or something.” Sasha: “That’s why you were laughing.” Tony Allen: “I knew it. I appreciate you for clarifying that.”

WisdomTree Global CIO Jeremy Schwartz says people optimize Amex points and airline miles while their checking accounts earn next to nothing “People will maximize, [and] they gamify their credit card rewards.” “I’ve got an Amex for my Marriott points. I’ve got American Airlines because that’s where I travel out of. I got my Amtrak if I’m taking the train all the time back and forth to Philly.” “You get these different reward cards, and you’re getting maybe 2% there... but you could get 4% plus.” “For just managing your checking accounts better.”

Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder says Arbitrum built its business model when making money was still taboo in crypto, recognizing that permissionless doesn’t mean free Steven: “I’ve lived long enough in crypto to remember a time where revenue was taboo. Making money, that sounds like something you shouldn’t be talking about. Everything should be free and open…” Robbie: “Public goods.” Steven: “Yeah, exactly. Everything should be public goods, and God forbid that anyone actually has a business model.” “But actually, we were very early on to understand that, no, for this protocol to succeed, it has to have a business model.” “And a business model actually has to be defendable, and not like, ‘Oh, pay me please, but you can also opt out and not pay me.’” “The way we’ve architected the Arbitrum revenue protocol and the licensing is: if you’re using the Arbitrum software, you don’t have to talk to me. You don’t need my permission. But you do have to pay the Arbitrum DAO, and that’s not something that’s negotiable.”

Grayscale executive Krista Lynch explains how moving idle Bitcoin into an ETF could help you get a better mortgage rate “For some, they’re able to put the assets to work. Some programs will allow for these shares to be used as margin and collateral.” “So if you have Bitcoin laying around that you’re not able to harness, you could potentially put it into the ETF.” “Your adviser potentially would be able to give you a better mortgage rate, better loan rates, some things like that.” “When you bring held-away assets in scope to your bigger financial picture, then you can potentially use it for margin and collateral to put it to work further.”

Kain Warwick says Infinex is shifting from supporting 25 chains to four that users actually care about, aiming to build the best trading app “We invested so much time in having this, 25-chain abstracted... And, these EVM chains are not equivalent, there’s a lot of work to make them seamlessly, function together.” “So that was probably one of the misses. And so we said, ‘You know what? Let’s pare it back to the four chains that people give a sh*t about.’” “Let’s make a pure trading app. No distractions, because we had a very good cross-chain experience, but not as good a same-chain experience.” “And so it wasn’t as good for meme coins. Great for Zcash... sure, but you want to pump PONS on Robinhood, and it was slow and clunky, whatever.” “So we’ve said, ‘Alright, strip everything back, take everything that we learned, put a native mobile app that’s a pure trading app with, spot trading, perp trading, prediction markets, and maybe options as well and make it the best app to trade on.”

Plume CEO Chris Yin says tokenized sneakers and Pokémon cards could become money in a global marketplace run by machines “Once everything in the world is money, and not just a stablecoin, not just equities, but even holding tokenized versions of sneakers, tokenized holders of Pokémon cards, whatever those things generating yield and using that as a base currency, as an asset for many things.” “I think the world is going to go absolutely nuclear. We’re collapsing the entire world into a single marketplace. Whether it’s different chains doesn’t matter, but it’s all onchain and all run by machines.” “And the velocity of money today, the vast majority of dollars are just sitting around doing nothing...” “You look at day-to-day on the internet, data doesn’t sit still anywhere, it’s moving around. It’s getting traded and transferred all around and updated. And that’s going to happen to dollars.” “And every time the dollar moves around, it generates yield. It does something with it...”

JaVale McGee says they built a whole show around making him look stupid and kept all the money “I didn’t understand how strong the media was. I didn’t realize that people actually took it serious.” “I did one bad play, but I had 15 and six blocks, but y’all didn’t show none of that… I was just like, ‘Oh shit, people really think this. I’m really bad.’” “And then the NBA started getting behind it too.” “They had one episode where it was like top five of me… I can be the clown in the league. You got the WWE, the villain, the good guy. But both are getting paid.” “You’re gonna have to pay me clown money then. I can play that role, but you not about to pay me mediocre money, disrespect me and push my career down the hill.”

Hunter Biden says one activist posted one photo of his family on vacation. Hours later, the President cancelled his Secret Service, while they were still in Africa “We went to South Africa to stay with Melissa’s family. We were there one day and Laura Loomer posted a picture of me, my son and Melissa in Cape Town ‘this criminal still has Secret Service and we’re paying for it’” “The next day, the President cancelled the Secret Service” Host: “Are you the first person ever to get Secret Service canceled?”

Jalen Brunson says game-winning shots aren’t pressure. Pressure is not knowing if you’ll have a contract tomorrow “Pressure, for me, is defined differently. Everyone thinks the fourth-quarter clutch moments are pressure…” “Watching my dad work out the way he did for about eight or nine years on non-guaranteed contracts, not really knowing when he’s going to be picked up, when he’s going to get cut. If he was going to play at all. I didn’t know that at the time” “Knowing my dad’s journey in the league, I find that to be pressure. You don’t know what’s next. Your career is in another person’s hands. Not being guaranteed” Host: “His final year, he finally got his first guaranteed contract. It’s insane when you think about it, how much he battled to carve out that career”

JR Smith says the Knicks are the blueprint for how you treat your legends, the Cavs haven’t invited him back once, 10 years after he helped them win their only championship “You should take care of your players, that should be your thing. You’re literally a legend walking around the city. Like, you got to sell your championship rings and all that. I get it some people just aren’t good financially with money” “But they don’t do nothing for you. You got a jersey in the rafters, they name stuff after you… that, to me, I just think that’s crazy. I don’t understand why that’s not more of a thing” “The Knicks do the best job by far. I won a whole chip in Cleveland, they haven’t invited me back once, and it’s been 10 years”

Dwyane Wade says he gave up $20,000,000 to team up with LeBron only to learn one brutal lesson: you can never get that money back “Part of me was a little pissed, I’m human, I don’t want to lose the best player in the game” “Now I gotta figure out my future, because I've given up a lot of my startup, and I've given up my place for you to step in and help lead us” “Money don't come back people, you can make more but you ain't getting that money back, you can’t recruit that money”

Pio says there’s ONE reason MicroStrategy isn’t a Ponzi "They say this over and over again. And I don't understand why people can't grasp this. The difference between a Ponzi is, you give me $100, I turn around and take your $100 that you just gave me, that I told you I was going to invest, and I give it to a lady that gave me $50, and I said, 'You just 2X'd.' That's a Ponzi" "There's no base, the money's just moving around" "These companies own a buttload of Bitcoin. $MSTR owns 820,000 Bitcoin, 85% outright"

Chris Camillo tells Gen Z to skip college to become a hyper-proficient AI specialist "If you're just a regular and young person, spend 6 months becoming a top 1% person in AI by self-learning" "Go where wealthy business owners hang out. I don't care if it's a conference in Vegas, go to the hotel bar and start walking up to old guys who are likely business owners or C-level execs" "Introduce yourself and say, I just spent 6 months becoming hyper-proficient at using bleeding-edge AI tools to solve problems. Over the next 3 years, your business is going to have so many issues and I'll be able to solve them for pennies on the dollar" "I don't know how many people you have in your company who are hyper-proficient in AI right now. But I am. Can we talk?" "Have that conversation over and over until one of them goes, I don't even know what I'm going for use you for, but we're hiring you next week"

Chris Camillo says there's no lifestyle difference between $20M and $200M "Almost everyone I know is just chasing a bigger number. They sold their company, they had success, so the number keeps going up and up and up. What the hell are you going to do with all that money? I don't get it. I just don't understand it" "At a certain point when you have enough friends that own yachts and vacation homes and fly private, you kind of don't need to spend any of your own money anymore anyway because you're just doing their stuff" "I don't understand what the difference is between $20M and $200M, I don't know how your life changes between $20M and $200M"

Chris Camillo says 'the market is rigged' is the most expensive excuse in investing "No one f-cking believes me, dude" "Every person is saying the game is rigged, it's rigged against us. I'm like, it's rigged FOR us" "If you're a retail trader. A normal human. You don't report to an office full of suits. You don't have a job to protect" "You're just normal, connected to the world, and you can do whatever the hell you want" "This market is rigged for you. Not against you"