Why This Billionaire is All In on Crypto, AI & Psychedelics | Christian Angermayer
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I think we're living in the most amazing and at the same time most crazy complex time ever. AI is the final game and whoever wins that will stay on top for good because AI is kind of that disruption machine in itself, if that makes sense. So and I think that is what Europe didn't understand, that they're losing out, but they're losing out for good.
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Thanks for having me again. Yeah. Great pleasure.
Life is good?
Life is good. Bidding Bitcoin is good. Like, markets are great. So yes.
Life is always good with you, feel.
I try to be always happy. I think that's the one and only reason why we're here, to be happy. So it's not meaning that I'm happy every day, but it's kind of the thing which I strive for. At the end, I think it's very simple as well. Just do what you wanna do in a nice way, like not egoistic, but just like live your life how you wanna live it and try to not surround yourself with assholes. Yes. Actually a simple puzzle. Is actually when I sold my first company or the stakes in my first company, that's what I was thinking. I was like, okay, I always wanted to be an entrepreneur, but I never had
Yeah. So okay. So I was I listened back to our conversation last time. I realized there's kind of a missing part of your story that I don't know too much about. So I know the beginning of your story. Small town, become a very successful biotech entrepreneur, make millions early on in your life, and and that's have some great success. Then there's this missing window. And then I know about the later part, which is very successful entrepreneur and backer of many great founders and crypto and compass, and we can we can get into that in a little bit. But the middle part is missing. So my question
you are today? Well, think meaning, I would see it like as a line with ups and downs, but it's a continuous thing. It's not that I woke up one day and was like, oh my God, my life has changed or whatever. It's kind of these constant hustle and growing. For example, so I started in biotech, but then I had this detour like between, we're talking now 2005 till 2012, where I did a lot of actually traditional financial services. So I used to own the largest, which is called an IFA network in Germany. I had to build up a company, it was a buy and build strategy. So we bought up sort of smaller playe
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