Dr. Jeff Ross is the founder and managing partner of alternative asset manager Vailshire Capital Management and Vailshire Partners, as well as a board-certified diagnostic radiologist. He was a speaker at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference, and has contributed to Seeking Alpha and The Motley Fool. Jeff earned his MBA from University of Colorado Colorado Springs, his MD from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and his undergrad from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.
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01:39 Growing up in Minnesota, living in Colorado
02:24 Dad worked his way up to president of Herberger's department store
03:48 Choosing medicine over finance in college
06:00 Doctors forced to check boxes
08:08 Practicing interventional radiology
11:07 Making it through med school, living in poverty
12:35 Investing blog, writing for The Motley Fool
14:11 Initially self-taught, then went back to school for MBA
15:49 Gold bug, hearing about Bitcoin in 2016
17:45 Basket approach during Blocksize Wars, "The School of Stupid"
21:06 Buying back Bitcoin at higher price
21:28 "Never too late to Bitcoin"
23:12 Founding Vailshire in 2013, leaving medicine, getting an MBA
25:56 Value of his MBA
27:06 Conviction in Bitcoin, going down the rabbit hole
29:40 Talking with clients about BTC
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33:38 Investing clients' money how Jeff invests his own
34:49 Independent vs. institutional advisors on Bitcoin
35:47 4 stages of understanding Bitcoin
40:00 Dr. Bear's macro outlook, "I haven't been this bearish ever."
44:25 What will trigger the next fall?
48:31 Housing bubble
49:51 Bitcoin rollercoaster 2021-2022
52:37 Dollar cost averaging
55:37 Defending Bitcoin as an inflation hedge
58:21 Federal Reserve pivot, government's interest in BItcoin
1:01:32 Jerome Powell's agenda
1:03:46 Transition to parallel system
1:07:54 How can Bitcoin fix healthcare?
1:11:51 "Things are going to be ugly this year."