01
Miami Exotics
I moved to Florida with a duffel bag and a bad idea, and ended up running an exotic car rental company with two guys from high school. Lamborghinis, Astons, a Rolls for the weekends.
THE STORY
How we got here
02
$500K Baccarat
My own roped-off table at the Hard Rock, $500K baccarat games, and Jason Derulo pulling up a chair. We won 18 of the first 20 hands, and I flew to LA with him the next morning.
03
Centra
2017. Crypto was exploding. We launched the Centra Card, a debit card for spending crypto anywhere, and made our first million in a single night. At the peak, Centra hit a $660M market cap and we were holding 200,000 ETH, 30,000 BTC and 500,000 LTC. Well over a billion dollars in assets.
04
The Hype
Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled posted the card. A crypto guru told the world we were a bank by mistake. Money poured in from South Korea to South Beach.
05
The Ride Ends
The New York Times, then the FBI at the door while I was in Gucci slides. Netflix made a movie about it. Every crazy story, in my words, one chapter a day.
06
The High Life
Hackers took over our phones and rerouted the ICO, so we hired the hackers. I moved into a casino penthouse with a driver on call and bought all-new teeth with a bag of cash.
07
Zero to Everything
After the FBI I had nothing. Since Bitconned came out I've made over $20 million trading, and I'm sitting on more money than I ever had at Centra. No card, no partners, no pitch. Just me and a screen.