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Released: July 22, 2025 | Duration: 50:22 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Chris McGill built CardLadder during his final semester of law school, working nights on a data product for a hobby that had no research infrastructure. The soft launch date, June 23, 2020 (6/23 for LeBron James and Michael Jordan), was not an accident. … Read more

Released: July 18, 2025 | Duration: 7:37 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This is a bonus episode where the host flips the usual mailbag format and asks the audience 27 questions across four categories: investment strategy and risk, buying edge and market positioning, selling and margin optimization, and brand building in the sports card space. … Read more

Released: July 15, 2025 | Duration: 17:49 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode uses Breaking Bad as a framework to explain why money velocity matters more than return multiples in sports card investing. Walter White set a target of $737,000 to provide for his family. He hit that number by the end of season … Read more

Released: July 8, 2025 | Duration: 48:48 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode features Ryan, the founder of Gemrate, discussing how population data, gem rates, and grading trends reveal opportunities that most collectors miss. Gemrate started as a solution to a personal problem: Ryan needed better tools to understand card supply and pricing beyond … Read more

Released: July 1, 2025 | Duration: 19:23 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode is a departure from frameworks and case studies. It is the origin story of Slabnomics, told through the lens of the host's background in finance, his entry into sports cards, and the lessons learned from both successes and spectacular failures. The … Read more

Released: June 24, 2025 | Duration: 14:29 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode breaks down the psychological forces that move sports card markets and explains how to use them to your advantage. It opens with the story of Odd Duck, an Austin restaurant that almost failed because they were charging too little for what … Read more

Released: June 17, 2025 | Duration: 33:38 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode features Scott, co-founder of the SoCo Expo, discussing the creation and evolution of the premier soccer card show in North America. The SoCo Expo started as a grassroots effort to give the soccer card community a dedicated space after seeing the … Read more

Released: June 10, 2025 | Duration: 19:12 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode explores what drives the marketing machine in sports cards and introduces the MLD (Market-Legacy-Design) framework as a tool for card valuation. The marketing machine represents the external forces that create attention, generate hype, and drive demand for specific players and cards. … Read more