Andrew GazdeckiSerial Entrepreneur Driving Startup Acquisitions

How the Pandemic Impacted Alternative Assets

15 Mar 2024

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This is a YouTube video titled "How the Pandemic Impacted Alternative Assets" containing a discussion between two speakers about the launch and growth of Microcart around the time of the pandemic, focusing on market behavior and alternative asset trends during economic downturns. The speakers analyze the timing and impact of the pandemic on investment patterns.

You know, I have like one data point that I'll. I'll share is when I launched Microcart, it was like two months before the pandemic started. And then when the pandemic started, that's when we really started to like. And I couldn't figure it out. I was like, what's going on? And I think it was because people were trying to buy alternative assets rather than like the stock market was cratering. Even Bitcoin was cratering, which was weird because the whole point of Bitcoin was when. When the world.
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Yeah. So that.
The timing, like you were relatively new. Some of that takeoff that you're describing might have just been the world figuring out that micro acquire is out there. So it'll be interesting to see with a longer lens, like over a period of, you know, now what it's been two years in, you know, five years, 10 years, you're going to see multiple cycles, big and small. When the stocks tank, people want alternative assets. But it was also such a dramatic event in the economy and so new in microacquire's existence, like.