Kevin O'Leary: The Opportunity With Bitcoin's Sustainability Issues
I sat with Yahoo Finance's Zack Guzman and talked about bitcoin's sustainability issues, & what made me change my tune about crypto.
00:32 - Bitcoin sustainability issues03:00 - Fixing the Environmental Impact of BTC05:09 - Not owning BTC that is mined unsustainably06:10 - ESG Criteria for businesses07:40 - The impact of other cryptocurrencies08:41 - Ethereum10:21 - DeFi12:37 - Why I'm not into dogecoin13:30 - Crypto for the average investor14:18 - Coinbase15:51 - NFTs18:36 - What changed my mind on crypto19:53 - Making Crypto institution friendly22:54 - End
Kevin O'Leary is a Canadian businessman, investor, and television personality. From his basement, he launched SoftKey Software Products and In 1999 Kevin sold his company to the Mattel Toy Company for a staggering 3.7 billion dollars, one of the largest deals ever done in the consumer software industry. To keep his money working hard, he took control of his wealth from his lackluster money managers and founded his own mutual fund company, O'Leary Funds. He raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors who share his "get paid while you wait" yield oriented, value investing philosophy. He is a venture capitalist on the Canadian television show Dragons' Den as well as a shark on the United States' version of Dragons' Den, Shark Tank, which airs on ABC. Kevin has authored 2 books: Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life
