Jurassic Finance Labs is proud to announce Rob Petrozzo (@robpetrozzo, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at @OnRallyRd) as the second of three advisors supporting the core team in bringing tokenized dinosaurs to @Solana.
Rob helped build Rally, the first regulated retail platform for fractional ownership of rare collectibles, spanning classic cars, sports memorabilia, watches, sneakers, and dinosaurs.
Mr. Petrozzo will receive 1% of Jurassic Finance Labs, allocated entirely from the core team’s Performance Package, and tied to the same unlock conditions.
I've passed on a lot of advisory role offers in the past, but today I'm joining as a formal advisor to @JurassicFi...
Dinosaurs completely changed the trajectory of my life, and I've spent the better part of the last decade thinking about how to make these assets more accessible and community owned.
The one thing thats ALWAYS been missing is liquidity at scale...
If RWAs and tokenization had been where they are today when we started @OnRallyRd, the entire industry would likely look VERY different, and thats why I'm taking a more active role in bringing it to life.
As I spend more time thinking about a life after @OnRallyRd, I want to work alongside people building in the categories I genuinely love. @Sora_i_guess, @vukan0x, and the Jurassic team are building *exactly that* and imo it’s going to be fully transformative for the entire collectibles space.
If you've got dinosaurs, want dinosaurs, or just want to talk dinosaurs, let’s talk - DMs open.
This da Vinci sold for $450M in 2017, and it’s almost certainly a fake… and everyone knew it was a fake.
Nobody cared.
Part of the reason is that there were simply no other da Vincis on the market…
So f-it, buy the closest one.
Art was the first market to move this way.
Now, the highest-end collectibles are starting to be locked away forever by billionaires while everyone else watches the stock market. And the sh*tty second tier collectible asset prices are going nuts because those tier-1 pieces are not coming back to market with the frequency they used to.
The full rotation to “best-only” is about to happen in the very real way. I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life.
In 2020 at Rally, we tried to buy Notorious BIG’s crown at Sotheby’s.
A mystery bidder was going over the top *aggressively* on every bid, so we stopped at $575K (it sold for 595)
6 months later, we found out Jay-Z was that bidder from this photoshoot of his daughter...
Back then, celebs and entertainers "overspending" on artifacts was NOT the norm, but thats where this space and these objects are now headed.
The Jay-Z's of the world have the money, the understanding of significance in culture, and the risk profile to make bets *today* that everyone will be making in the future.
its already happening. But in the next 5 yrs, the most important 90s and 2000s objects are going to be more relevant (and more valuable) wealth signals than anything else.
Japanese auteur Hamaguchi Ryusuke‘s first French-language film, “All of a Sudden,” premiered in competition at Cannes on Friday to a seven-minute standing ovation, the longest of the fest so far. https://t.co/ykLSC9YsmY
I’m taking this watch over the AP Swatch every day.
Same price as the day-1 Royal Pop markup...
but you’re getting real history, produced in VERY low numbers, in new condition from 40 yrs ago.
One of the most important Swatches of all time.
Also, it’s an actual watch.
The reason every startup has merch is because Apple perfected it from 1984-1987.
Now it’s all just logos on shirts (🗑️)
(Below: 1984 Mac M0001 Note Cube)
When nostalgia is really well designed you get this.
That’s the best design.
This is what pro sports apparel needs more of instead of just constant re-releases.
Some trades are pure luck.
But Sphere stock was an obvious buy for anyone who's been there even once.
I set a 9:30 alarm on my phone to buy SPHR at the open the day after this show.