Valuetainment - October 17, 2025


“Financial Advisors Will Go Extinct” - Pompliano PREDICTS AI’s Deadly Blow To Wall Street


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

214.80807

Word Count

5,904

Sentence Count

7

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

5x leveraged funds have been all the rage in the past couple of years and are becoming more and more popular with retail traders. In this episode, we discuss why this is a bad thing and what to do about it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 what would your advice be to these people of like i make 40 grand a yard just pumped a twenty
00:00:03.440 thousand dollars into some spot etf trade whatever that is but that's not how investing works well
00:00:09.240 now do you see the 5x etfs that got launched yesterday or got filed this is fucking crazy
00:00:13.840 i don't know what is it called 5x if you go uh 5x levered etfs um so so there's etfs on single
00:00:22.540 names right so you can go you can uh i'm sorry there's etfs that usually are a basket the s&p
00:00:26.240 500 nasdaq 100 etc recently uh over the last two or three years people have started to do 2x etfs
00:00:32.360 and they position them as trading tools so they say hey listen you can go two times long by just
00:00:37.040 buying this etf you don't really need to understand leverage you just buy the etf and let's say you're
00:00:40.980 going into an earnings call or something and you want some leverage on a single name stock well of
00:00:45.180 course 2x comes out they're very popular somebody launches 3x yesterday i saw it's the first time i
00:00:51.560 had ever seen i don't know if there's been other ones but this volatility shares they launched 5x
00:00:55.940 levered etfs so you can buy a single name etf that has 5x leverage embedded into it so you know
00:01:03.280 retail is going to go buy it right you get 5x leverage of course they're going to buy it i think
00:01:07.560 we're playing a dangerous game isn't this just sort of similar to sports gambling it's like we're
00:01:10.780 gonna do a 10 team parlay and we're gonna crypto does it crypto off this 50x you know leverage
00:01:16.240 right and some of these uh and some of these exchanges so again it's like if uh what's the saying
00:01:21.100 on wall street like when the ducks are quacking feed them but i mean that's what the platforms are
00:01:25.440 doing is they're saying hey these these folks want this stuff so we're giving it to them but
00:01:30.000 again i think that when you start getting into this 5x levered etf world right like is somebody
00:01:33.860 to come out with 10x levered a regulator is going to approve that what happens when the article comes
00:01:38.240 out in the new york times or wall street journal about the people who all got blown up you know
00:01:41.180 holding the 5x levered thing there's um if you look at uh do amd etf blow up there was a amd uh etf i
00:01:50.060 think it was like a 3x or 2x uh uh etf that um yeah here you go so when open ai announced this deal
00:01:57.120 with amd obviously the stock price exploded went up 38 percent and the uh granite shares i think
00:02:04.020 3x levered fund i think that's the one uh it blew up net net asset value went to zero meaning that if
00:02:09.540 you were holding that etf you lost all your money because it was a 3x short etf so you're basically
00:02:17.940 three times levered short on a stock that goes up 38 off of an announcement so like that is a
00:02:24.200 perfect example where i think that people are sitting there and they're saying hey you know
00:02:27.880 i think amd is overvalued it's going to go down let me put 3x leverage on like leverage is a hell
00:02:32.080 of a drug tom what do you have with this well there's there's two things here first of all
00:02:36.420 there's also gamification and there's things that are happening and if you go look at reddit and you
00:02:41.120 look at the reddit threads on there and i don't mean just wall street bets and roaring kitty and all
00:02:45.060 that goes with that in the meme stocks you go and look at things like i've been doing this test
00:02:49.280 so that we can come back with a number scream and do a little segment on it and what i did was um
00:02:56.600 you know i read about these guys autopilot what is autopilot autopilot is very simply automated
00:03:03.600 trading based on a formula so you could go to autopilot and you could select the nancy pelosi
00:03:09.960 portfolio and connect it so i said i'm going to do a test so on july 1st i took 50 000 i created
00:03:17.760 a simple robin hood account basic and then pat i went to um autopilot filled out the credentials
00:03:25.820 and said okay autopilot you can trade the 50 000 in my robin hood according to the nancy pelosi
00:03:33.280 disclosures you did this i did this and i am at this this is just a little test so this is a small
00:03:39.380 test and real world environment right now it's up 18.8 percent it's gained 9 500 since july 1st
00:03:46.560 stop it tom no i'm not just this little 50 000 i did this to do a test because i was reading
00:03:52.680 that in the first like 90 days of autopilot being out there some 40 000 accounts were created and these
00:04:00.620 were citizens out there retail traders that were doing this and by the way there's also some very
00:04:05.540 interesting things you can go find out you can trade world war three portfolio on defense uh jim
00:04:12.640 simmons uh you can do jim simmons yes you can and also you can do they probably do it off the inverse
00:04:19.280 kramer you you can't do jim simmons no what they what they probably do i don't know for sure no way
00:04:24.800 you can do jim simmons no because what they probably what they probably do is they probably take the 13f
00:04:29.120 filings from renaissance and then they just follow you're too late if you do that no that's exact this
00:04:33.700 is it depends right well i don't know there's no way you can do the jim jim that's what they're
00:04:38.620 getting for the pelosi i mean i get that i i understand they they have they show that if you
00:04:44.120 would put money on the jim simmons tracker at 74 for what time period one year one year one year from
00:04:49.600 right now this summer last i mean this fall last fall and it is uh tracking publicly available
00:04:54.960 information from jim simmons medallion jim simmons closed his fund to his customers told everybody to
00:05:01.720 get out and they just kept it for themselves that's how amazing renaissance technologies was
00:05:07.160 getting a rate of return out yeah i mean it was a ridiculous their their clients were getting 30 by
00:05:14.060 the renaissance they talked about their clients were getting 39 rate of return and they were getting 65
00:05:19.320 rate of return give or take and they said folks take your money out we're not wanting any more new money
00:05:23.940 what was your return on your in 50 000 i'm at 18 percent here's what i know tom lunch is on you
00:05:30.640 today no no no no i'm doing what do you mean no i'm doing this to show people were doing this with
00:05:36.420 10 grand five grand and doing this like this and actually getting i'm telling you tom but let me
00:05:40.880 it's changing things are changing investment is changing that's you know what is scary you know
00:05:46.520 what is scary about this you know who should be scared about this the traditional guys that are
00:05:51.720 working at morgan stanley the traditional guys that are working at chases the traditional guys
00:05:56.600 that are there the middle the middle where you're like hey man why am i putting you're going well this
00:06:01.320 is going to give us a good rate of return of six percent annually for the next 10 years your money is
00:06:06.300 going to double in 12 years excuse me yeah your money it is going to be a very very competitive market
00:06:13.120 for those guys the financial but the traditional good financial advisors that come to you and say
00:06:19.460 we got a great fund for you that can make this kind of money for you can i take it a step further yeah
00:06:23.680 go for it we um we actually think that those guys are all going to go away for the most part
00:06:27.920 we um if you think what a financial advisor does financial advisor ingests information about your life
00:06:34.300 synthesizes it looks into the market as to what's happening both in financial markets and various
00:06:39.820 products and then gives you back an output it gives you advice it gives you recommendations all
00:06:43.940 this stuff we have built an ai version of that this is cfo sylvia that is crushing in terms of not only
00:06:53.000 is it smarter it's faster it's free but what you start to realize is you can do things so like the
00:06:59.800 whole problem with if you go to chat gpt or perplexity and you start asking it questions it can give
00:07:04.740 you advice about the financial market so it could tell you hey the stocks are up or down or this stock
00:07:09.200 here let me do some analysis like it's pretty powerful stuff but the thing that's always missing
00:07:12.840 is your personal financial information so it doesn't it can't give you advice about your portfolio
00:07:16.740 because they don't have access to that data so we did is we built this uh ai agent called sylvia where
00:07:21.380 you go in and you attach your bank account your crypto account your uh brokerage you can attach your
00:07:26.320 credit card you can upload your tax returns like you just give it all your information that data is
00:07:31.540 anonymized and uh encrypted and my data is in there i don't want anything to happen to it
00:07:35.380 and then you can start to ask questions but you can do crazy things you can say hey run a monte carlo
00:07:40.420 simulation on my portfolio and tell me where i'm likely to be in 10 years and do 100 000 simulations
00:07:45.320 or let's say that the u.s china trade deal happens within seconds you can ask sylvia how is this trade
00:07:50.800 deal going to impact my portfolio and the ai will go and it'll read the entire uh breakdown of the trade
00:07:55.380 deal it'll look at your personal portfolio and it'll spit out to you exactly what uh is likely to
00:07:59.600 happen and so then you can even start to do things where you can say hey you know go do deep
00:08:04.120 research on palantir stock and when you do that deep research uh i want you to tell me whether
00:08:09.580 you think that i should uh buy the stock or not and how i should do it and so it is going to go
00:08:15.500 and look at not only palantir it'll come back and say here's the pros and cons of palantir stock all
00:08:18.900 this stuff but then it'll look and say do you have a concentration of tech stocks well your
00:08:23.180 concentration means you're very correlated to tech and so maybe you should actually put a smaller
00:08:26.920 position on rather than a larger position to palantir and oh by the way should i do a one-time
00:08:30.900 purchase or should i dollar cost average into the stock over six months right you can start to do
00:08:34.840 all this stuff in a very automated way and it does it in seconds and so we actually think that
00:08:38.460 the financial advisors are not going to be the ones who are recommending these products in the future
00:08:43.300 because just like you're seeing the eugenic uh commerce happen in open ai and i know we're probably
00:08:48.020 going to talk about walmart and a bunch of this stuff you're going to start seeing in finance the ai is
00:08:52.680 the one who's going to start directing people to where they should go so autopilot's a good example
00:08:57.780 autopilot is just saying hey if you put your money in here tom we're just going to follow the 13 fs or
00:09:03.940 we're going to follow the disclosures from pelosi and the ai is essentially going to do it of the
00:09:07.920 proxy you select correct so we think that you know the sylvia product is a good example where right now
00:09:13.580 you don't put your assets on the platform you just connect your data this is this is so who owns
00:09:17.560 autopilot tom it's an independent independent startup two guys that super smart guys i've talked to
00:09:22.580 them very very smart how recent that they started i think like let's go back and look at the history
00:09:26.800 i think 24 months yeah two years ago uh how much money have these guys raised three guys how much
00:09:33.680 have they raised rob can you see how much money they've raised not not uh not a ton how much money
00:09:40.460 have these guys raised let's see autopilot yeah seven million they've raised seven million in and
00:09:49.180 where they based out of are they here florida or are they silicon valley i forget
00:09:53.760 uh rob you're excellent google he's really good yeah you're fast la all right got it interesting
00:10:04.820 this is the beautiful thing about capitalism and ideas people are going to come up with uh folks if
00:10:10.060 you want to learn more about cfo sylvia go to cfo sylvia.com cfo sylvia s-i-l-v-i-a dot com to learn
00:10:17.800 more about it but this is a you know this is a big because this is good this is the good news side
00:10:25.040 this is very good about capitalism and by the way this is why we chose to do the podcast once a week
00:10:30.080 that's around business and and money because we want people to start making more money and have
00:10:33.860 more success for themselves as well but this is the part about you know everybody wanted to go into
00:10:40.080 jim simon's renaissance technology by the way he was one of the first guys ever they use ai and he did
00:10:45.760 that in 80 no in the 60s if i'm not mistaken can you can you type in when renaissance technologies
00:10:51.960 got started it could be late 60s 70s oh yeah they've been doing it yeah they've been doing it
00:10:56.100 for a long time but mathematician he was a mathematician yeah he was a 1982 okay but he
00:11:01.900 started earlier he was a teacher at first and then he somehow some way gets into this with
00:11:07.820 renaissance technologies and then it takes off there's another fellow in the story as well outside
00:11:11.800 of him that uh there's a howard morgan guy yes so uh what this does is tom so now imagine if you're
00:11:18.840 renaissance technology what do you do now if a company like this can come and use the way you're
00:11:25.260 making the investment what is your differentiator you like it you like it everyone on autopilot's
00:11:32.460 buying after you bought so it it only validates what you're doing so a renaissance pushes the stock
00:11:39.120 price higher so in theory secondary investors are like so it even helps nancy pelosi yeah that's a
00:11:47.420 good way to think about it you heard tom what did you say it does what he said well when a series c
00:11:53.520 comes up and it's sequoia they're marking up my deal if i'm the series b they're marking up the
00:11:58.020 valuation and they're putting more validation in with their investment now you have the public
00:12:02.560 basically marking up the deal for everybody else that's already in so the other thing that's
00:12:07.300 happening in financial markets that i think people are starting to realize is um i've talked
00:12:11.680 with a lot of institutional investors a lot of hedge funds in the last year or so uh you have to
00:12:16.080 remember that the young people who are growing up with a phone in their hand they're on you know x
00:12:20.520 they're on reddit they're listening to podcasts etc they live a dual life they're an institutional
00:12:25.800 investor when they're at work they're a retail investor when they're in their personal account
00:12:29.820 so now what's happening is historically it was the institutions who were leading and retail was trying to
00:12:34.980 chase the trend right institution puts a position on they go on television they start talking about
00:12:39.100 it retail goes and buys it we like nike correct now it's flipping the retail investors are running into
00:12:46.700 different investment themes because they don't have the constraints they don't have an investment
00:12:50.300 committee they don't have you know uh rebalancing and all this stuff so they're going to buy well the
00:12:55.680 the people that are inside the institutions these young people they think of themselves as retail
00:12:59.720 investors they see the trends they're sitting on twitter all day and so then they go and they
00:13:03.640 advocate for those positions inside the institutions so a good example is uh open door right if you look
00:13:09.140 at this open door stock uh the retail investors all started to buy it basically there's a hedge fund
00:13:13.660 manager in canada's guy eric jackson who comes out and he says hey i think this thing is significantly
00:13:18.300 undervalued it was trading at like 50 cents and he says i think that this thing can come back and so he
00:13:23.180 goes and he buys the position i interviewed him when he did it and you know i heard the pitch i thought it
00:13:27.800 was interesting but uh i didn't do anything go buy the stock or whatever stock started to to move up and
00:13:33.600 i paid attention i see all the retail guys and i see what they're they're doing and i say you know
00:13:37.180 what i'm gonna buy this stock you know i'm gonna buy the stock the company at the current moment
00:13:40.480 doesn't look super attractive but i think the retail guys are going to be able to advocate change
00:13:45.460 inside this company basically like an activist campaign so i buy a stock all of a sudden the retail
00:13:50.620 guys they get super loud within i don't know 72 hours of them really going hard the ceo steps down
00:13:57.260 they get management to eventually agree to stop selling shares they bring in a new ceo who's the
00:14:03.180 former ceo of shopify they bring back the founders onto the board of directors all this stuff so it's
00:14:08.120 like the most successful activist campaign recently well right after the retail guys all started buying
00:14:13.980 the stock and advocating for all these changes all the 13f start coming out all the institutions start
00:14:19.120 buying you see all these guys are buying up this stock now some of it is they think interest rates
00:14:23.660 are going to come down this is in the residential real estate market so that would be kind of a tailwind
00:14:27.220 for uh for the company but a big part of it is they're paying attention to what the retail guys are
00:14:31.160 doing and so they're sitting there saying wait a minute why are all these guys all buying the stock
00:14:34.880 there's energy now right that there's momentum they're advocating change they're bringing back
00:14:39.020 the founders they're putting in this great ceo like that is going to change this company and so the
00:14:43.960 institutions follow retail which is very different than 10 years ago doesn't that kind of almost
00:14:48.100 sort of validate what jim kramer was saying about the the tail wagging the dog not the dog
00:14:53.020 because he said basically that volatile crypto trading is sort of insinuating why the capital markets are
00:14:59.100 moving the direction they're going so is kramer kind of accurate he was looking at liquidity flows
00:15:02.960 he is but he's afraid of this pattern that's my that's way i understood it he's worried that crypto
00:15:10.220 is now the leader not you know that's something important that you said something really important
00:15:16.080 that you said and i can for people that are listening i'll take you back to the big short
00:15:21.160 where you have the asian gentleman that's working with merrill lynch
00:15:24.840 and uh mark baum comes over to his table at the restaurant as you recall and um he says to him
00:15:32.220 and he says i have a question for you and he starts talking about the cdo collateralized debt
00:15:36.820 obligation which was nothing more than a big stack of mortgages put in an investment and he he starts
00:15:43.780 describing the synthetic cdo and all of these um mechanisms and mark baum acts him saying
00:15:51.620 if the cdo market is this big how big is the insurance market on the cdo and he says probably
00:15:58.200 20x remember that scene and bomb suddenly realizes as he says that the insurance market on the cdo
00:16:05.600 was the nuclear bomb now what you just described that is how the traditional organizations pat think
00:16:13.460 and so the people that built the 3x are thinking we'll just build a 5x that's the traditional people
00:16:20.100 the same people that built the synthetic cdo's that put the insurance on the cdo's that is wall
00:16:24.980 street and the institutions building their products and opportunities meanwhile all these other things
00:16:30.100 are happening for the retail investors through robin hood and then through autopilot and then through
00:16:35.460 reddit and then through calci and the democratization of opinion that you can look back and say was it
00:16:41.020 right or is it wrong and do i like it i see two different things happening for institutions that are
00:16:46.900 making increasingly bigger bets we're going to put 1.3 trillion in infrastructure
00:16:51.620 to quote a current event and then retail coming i i see it like that do you think i'm do you think
00:16:59.540 i'm nuts i think you're dead on one of the stats uh look up a retail percentage of the stock market i
00:17:04.640 think it's like 38 percent or something now um that number i think is going to go to over 50
00:17:09.680 right if you think about in the stock market um so it's like 35 percent uh is um the the latest
00:17:17.740 number i think it's like 38 percent now uh the reason why that's important is because if all of a
00:17:22.620 sudden retail is bigger than the institutions in terms of the trading volume in the market you have
00:17:27.500 to start to look at what is retail doing what are they interested in what are the thing the themes
00:17:31.820 that they are uh investing behind and i think that's a big reason why uh these institutions right
00:17:36.920 so like some recent figures placing as high as 36 percent and and so that is a lot of these apps
00:17:42.620 are starting to give access but i also think that people drastically underestimate how smart
00:17:47.360 these uh retail investors can be so to me they're still going to be the like gamblers right the people
00:17:52.720 who are just speculating in the market but i think actually there is this kind of middle ground there's
00:17:56.920 institutions there's like retail with like ten dollars in an account but there is something i call them
00:18:00.800 professional retail there are people who you know it's the google engineer who's got a million
00:18:05.120 dollar salary they're not dumb but they're also saying i don't trust the financial advisor i don't
00:18:09.160 trust the stock broker i'm going to go and i'm going to invest in the market directly myself i've
00:18:12.120 access to information now i've access to the market via these apps i'm going to go and i'm going to do
00:18:15.520 it myself that is a very fast growing segment of the market let me tell you disruption at a high
00:18:22.860 level is coming to the space at a high level and it's i remember one time tom you and i went to
00:18:29.360 our monk and we're sitting there with swiss three and we're saying we want to introduce a model of
00:18:35.900 underwriting for insurance and i said this model is going to get rid of actuaries and they say you're
00:18:41.760 going to face a very big problem here because a lot of these guys are they're making 250 400 000
00:18:46.160 a senior actuary what is a senior 20 year vet actuary making 400 grand 300 grand it's pretty good
00:18:53.140 life what they're making some of them half a million dollars says if you guys said look we can create a
00:18:57.400 way i want to underwrite somebody in 20 seconds i don't want to underwrite somebody in four weeks
00:19:01.140 i don't want to wait two weeks can we do it based on 30 seconds can we pull up this data that data
00:19:06.660 this what if we do this because the data was there the data's there your credit report was there your
00:19:10.900 driving record was there your med check of what i don't smoke really then why do you have nick patches
00:19:15.840 on your on your med yeah is it straight i can check i can check all of that in 30 seconds and i have to
00:19:21.680 pay six dollars for this four dollars for that 13 dollars for that you know what's crazy and now i can
00:19:26.180 underwrite that in seconds for about 25 so check this out we go and i start proposing that to
00:19:30.920 different underwriters i start meeting with them and one of the underwriters i met but i won't even
00:19:35.140 tell his name but you know who i'm talking maybe you know who i'm talking about i'm talking to this
00:19:38.540 underwriter in hawaii maybe you know where i'm going with this oh yeah i have an underwriter this
00:19:43.660 conversation buddy yeah i have a conversation with this underwriter in hawaii letters yes i have a
00:19:47.640 conversation with this guy in hawaii and i'm presenting this thing to him oh this will never happen
00:19:52.800 i said is it because you're going to be replaced is it because that those jobs of the old school
00:19:59.100 well no i mean you're still going to need us i said i don't think so i don't i said you probably
00:20:04.700 have a safe job for five or ten years i said buddy your job's going to be extinct very soon
00:20:09.220 this whole concept of the ai thing that's coming and what these younger guys are building and by the
00:20:17.140 way that was one of the reasons why i wasn't interested in staying insurance for 20 years i was like this
00:20:21.660 if i'm fighting this it's going to be too slow we're going to go a completely different route and
00:20:26.100 then we sold off and the speed the speed was my biggest thing it's too slow let's go is what it was
00:20:33.600 and pomp you'll love this cvc corporate venture capital yep swiss re one of the reinsurance companies
00:20:38.820 and you know reinsurance companies hide in bermuda some of the largest stacks of money on on earth
00:20:44.300 they had one guy in a basement office that we went to speak to about innovation remember that guy
00:20:51.140 he was nice remember this bat one guy who had an office literally in the basement in the old section
00:20:58.200 that didn't have this grand artwork and all this redone and we're like you guys are you guys should
00:21:03.800 be all over cvc and investments i saw this in real time in a different sector uh there's a company
00:21:09.380 called figure technologies that uh we invested in and um at the time uh they started getting into
00:21:15.360 helix you know home equity lines of credit and uh historically helix i forget all the data but it's
00:21:20.480 like it takes like 45 60 days it uh you got to send in physical paperwork right you got to fill it out
00:21:26.040 you got to send your pay stub you got to get an employment letter all this crazy stuff for a guy with
00:21:29.080 a job living in a house he owns correct so what they did is and to kind of paraphrase is they
00:21:34.400 basically said uh you can come here you basically use plaid to all office into your bank account
00:21:40.200 you fill out you know a quick form within five minutes they tell you whether you're gonna get
00:21:44.260 the helix or not and they send you the money within five days they became like the second or third
00:21:48.120 largest helix originator in uh in the united states and a huge reason was like why do you have to send
00:21:52.860 in your you know w-2 if they can just see in your bank account you keep getting a direct deposit every
00:21:57.880 two weeks and what is the amount of money so it sounds very similar to what you're talking about is like if
00:22:01.020 the uh med check i think you called it yeah if you know that they've got nicotine patches like yeah
00:22:05.600 i'm assuming you're either smoking or trying to quit so i i just think like this whole like data
00:22:12.960 business um or or this like uh you know automatic underwriting automatic uh analysis is going to become
00:22:19.200 very very big as people realize that uh now the data doesn't only exist but also there have been
00:22:24.980 companies that have popped up that have become the connectivity so it makes it very simple for
00:22:29.020 developers to be able to go and do it plads a great example for banks um that there's many
00:22:33.140 others like this and so i think you're going to continue to see this over and over doesn't just
00:22:36.160 come down to efficiency and cutting out the middleman and all the red tape and deregulation
00:22:39.800 is that just what just efficiency efficiency that's what it is if you're not so one of the things that
00:22:44.700 you know and i already know that i'm preaching to the choir here with uh kind of entrepreneurship but
00:22:48.500 like if you think of what entrepreneurs is a problem solver right so if you're trying to offer
00:22:52.340 something in the marketplace and somebody says to you hey you can have a 60-day process you got to do all
00:22:55.780 these paperwork all this crazy stuff or you can go on a website and click buttons and i'll tell you
00:23:00.280 in five minutes whether you're going to get it or not where are people going to go obviously so
00:23:03.400 whether it's insurance whether it's helix whether it's you know whatever sector like that is where
00:23:07.540 the world is going and i think that uh entrepreneurs are just trying to figure out where is there
00:23:11.500 inefficiency that we can cut out on monday i introduced you to the flbs the flb one shoes
00:23:17.620 future looks bright shoes and let me tell you what happened since that day for black shoes that
00:23:22.800 we had i'll give you the report here for black size uh uh rob i think you have it as well size
00:23:30.100 eight and eleven and a half sold out if you place the order now it's pre-order it'll get here second
00:23:36.320 week of december for brown eight 12 and 13 sold out navy size 13 sold out everything you order on
00:23:45.080 those sizes will be pre-order i shared with you the fact that a lot of the sizes are going to sell out
00:23:49.780 a lot of them there's only four or five or six remaining for the shoe sizes so for some of you
00:23:55.720 that didn't see what we talked about on monday for the last 25 years i speak uh a lot on stage and and
00:24:05.020 some of the events whether it's my insurance company or the vault conference or bpw at some
00:24:09.420 events i can speak 40 hours while i'm on my just standing up talking and i'm wearing dress shoes and
00:24:13.660 they're uncomfortable i wanted to find a shoe that can combine both the comfort and the technology
00:24:18.040 and the authentic italian leather uh the trainers because i love those shoes i don't want it to be
00:24:23.680 too heavy where i'm feeling like i'm carrying weight we went to italy we put a shoe together
00:24:28.320 called the flbs and i want to show you this clip one more time and then i'm going to show you one
00:24:32.400 other clip and then we'll give you some intel and then we'll get right into the stories go ahead and
00:24:36.460 rob play this clip please when we set out to create a shoe that blends comfort function and luxury
00:24:43.340 we had the choice to make it fast we had the choice to make it cheap we chose neither instead
00:24:50.020 we chose tuscanero we chose true italian craftsmanship each pair touched by 50 skilled hands we chose patience
00:24:58.460 spending two years perfecting every detail and we chose the finest quality at every step introducing
00:25:05.400 the future looks bright collection not rushed not disposable not ordinary rather intentional luxurious
00:25:15.980 timeless
00:25:17.180 so so just so you know if you're wondering pomp came in here he saw the shoes
00:25:24.700 and he kind of goes like this he's like i looked under the table he's auditing me he's like let me see
00:25:30.340 if this guy's a product of the product 24 days in a robin wearing this just so you know that 24 days
00:25:36.000 in a robin wearing this no matter where i go last night i was at casa de angelo i was wearing this
00:25:40.240 the most comfortable uh trainer shoes with the italian leather and again if you haven't placed
00:25:46.240 your order for yourself for your spouse this was us at the vault conference rob if you want to play
00:25:50.120 this clip the launch of it when we did it here was so exciting people were coming from all over the
00:25:54.680 world uh that was a 10 foot shoe that we put up but uh guys coming back how comfortable it is
00:26:01.280 how light it is feeling the super foam at the bottom of it taking pictures of it sitting in
00:26:07.120 boardrooms with your feet up where somebody says wait a minute does that say future looks bright on
00:26:11.180 the bottom of the shoe yes let's make a deal happen right there's a certain sense of optimism
00:26:15.360 when you're wearing these uh uh future looks bright shoes so again the black and brown if you order them
00:26:23.660 we have them now if they're sold that pre-order because you'll get it second week of december
00:26:30.060 the white when it comes out it will not last because you know there's a certain material that
00:26:36.720 we mixed it with the light the white is absolutely ridiculous this will come out second week of
00:26:41.300 december with the navy blue the navy blue and the white will come second week of december the black
00:26:45.740 and the brown are here for you to order depending on your size so go to vtmerge.com place your order
00:26:51.840 and uh you can learn more about the comparison of how these shoes compare it to a tom ford rob if you
00:26:57.080 can go a little bit lower to a gucci to a berluti to a ferragamo to a xenia make the comparison for
00:27:03.340 yourself instead of spending 9 50 11 98 95 8 40 it's built in the same exact factories as gucci
00:27:10.060 louis vuitton same ones 5 99 uh i just put them on this morning took me half a second to put them on and i
00:27:16.240 driver came picked me up got in the car came over here so if you haven't placed the order yet for
00:27:20.260 yourself or somebody else placed your order go to vtmerge.com if you enjoyed this video you want
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