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Rocky Aoki: Benihana founder, powerboat racer, balloonist, SEC target

Benihana founder Rocky Aoki, father of DJ Steve Aoki, was an Olympic-level wrestler from Japan who started with an ice cream truck in New York, took Benihana public, raced powerboats, set a hot-air balloon distance record and got in trouble with the SEC for insider trading. Shaan calls his motto, 'Money's not everything, just 99%,' a tagline for the podcast.

“And then he eventually starts Benihana's, which goes public. And while he's doing this, he does all these weird competitions. Like, I think he was a professional powerboat racer at one point. He like set a record for like flying a fly, like a hot air balloon, like across some distance. And he even got in trouble by the SEC for insider trading because I think he was trying to like buy back Benihana and he like thought like, like a, a bad report was going to come out, something crazy like that.”
EP 849 · 39:54 · SAM
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From a $375K charity Pokémon box to the world's biggest Pokémon show

Camillo bought a $375,000 Pokémon box for a charity party in Vegas and lost money on the event. Someone he met there pitched a convention, so he invested about $600,000 and helped grow it to 20 shows and 700,000 attendees. Collect-A-Con later sold to Ari Emanuel for what Camillo called an insane amount of money.

“I invested, I want to say $600,000. into the company. I took a minority but massive stake in the company, and I helped build this conference starting with one show in a small hotel convention room in Frisco, Texas. And 4 years later, we were throwing 20 shows, 700,000 attendees, the biggest Pokémon trade show in the world. Massive success.”
EP 846 · 20:25 · CHRIS CAMILLO
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