Brent Montgomery (left) and Alexis Ohanian (right) in West Hollywood, California on 20 April 2023. Tomaso Boddi/Getty Images for Wheelhouse
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, is partnered with media heavyweight Brent Montgomery, so that they can shake the Burning Collectables Market. Yesterday (13 February) the pair announced the launch of a new social media platform Mantel designed for collectable enthusiasts.
Currently live as a beta version, the platform takes its name from Mickey Mental, a demand-one figure in sports collectuality, with a baseball card auction received above $ 12 million. While Mantle is currently serving categories such as sports cards, trading card games and categories such as sports memorbilia, it will eventually expand to include comics, stamps, watches, coins, toys, cars, NFTs and even alcohol.
Ohanian said in a statement, “Mantel connects my two biggest passions in business and life: community and collection,” said Ohanian in a statement. The platform will promote community engagement, which will refund the top discussion topics found on the content and reddit prepared by the user. Ohanian, who launched Mantle through his venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, is active in Sports Collectables Market and has previously advocated more female representation in the industry.
Montgomery also has a long relationship for a memorable world. Mantle has invested through his media company’s wheelhouse, which supports the 2022 auction-centric Netflix show King of collectivity: Golden Touch And rally, a partial investment platform for collectable.
Montgomery said, “Gathering touches every demographic and units in an indifferent way that can do a little more, and I am excited that I am excited to help promote an alternative asset class, where people can make incredible funny investments,” said that Montagomari said, which helped to develop the proceedings. pawn Stars While the leading production company left entertainment in a statement in the 2000s.
Ivan Parker will be the head of the new platform. Etiquette
In addition to seven and seven six and wheelhouse, Mantle’s investors include cake-pinging DJ Steve Aoki; Gary Vaneerchuk, co-founder of reservation software rage; Candes Parker, a famous player in the Women’s National Basketball Association; And Adam Hansman, co-founder of Sports Journalism website Athletic,
Also joining Athletic, The New York Times was acquired in 2022, Mental CEO Ivan Parker. After working in the material in NASCAR for eight years, Parker went to the game publication and recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager. Developing mental in the last seven months has been “the most challenging chapter of my career”, Parker recently wrote in a LinkedIn Post, “Nothing, there is nothing compared to the excitement of starting a business with scratches.”
The new platform aims to take advantage of the fast growing industry. According to the market research firm Market Dassifer, the price of $ 458 billion in 2022 is expected to cross the $ 1 trillion threshold by 2033 in 2022, the Collectables Market. Parker, in a video interview with Ohanian, Parker said that negotiations on conversations and special facilities on special facilities like transaction and sports card database would be emphasized.
“A lot of social networks are very large, very broad or very anonymous that are really to create a community,” he said. “We are expecting to build with Jotail, it is something that is very niche, very targeted, very communal.”
