Forbes 500

Oh, yeah.

And I ignore almost all of them because almost all of them are, I can tell they're AI or the person who wrote it literally did absolutely no research on my aud- I got one today that was like, "I've been on Forbes 500 and whatever and turned multiple seven-figure businesses." And I'm like, "I don't care about that."

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"My people don't care about that." My people have, are neurodivergent.

Lower your taxes if you are.

A kajillionaire, Forbes, the uber wealthy got uber wealthier in 2025.

Forbes 500, 400, excuse me, is richer than ever, worth a combined $8 trillion, up from $6.6 trillion in 2025.

Overall, the 20 very richest people in America have gotten nearly a trillion dollar richer over the past year as a group.

They're now worth a record $4 trillion.

day, make a career out of it and just sit there and watch it all day long.

Yeah, interestingly though, Benny, no one has ever made the Forbes 500 richest list being traders.

There you go.

People who value invest, who understand value, look for good companies and good fundamentals, they make the richest.

Any particular TradFi demand for the stuff you guys are doing? Because being highly regulated, being fiat-backed, being on Cardano, which is a very stable network for many years, Cardano being in the last...

Maybe two years really going for, say, the Forbes 500 type company in terms of partnerships.

I know at least three new headlines this year of interesting partnerships they did in Brazil, both public and private sector.

What has been, if anything, conversations you're having, if you can talk about them, obviously, with more traditional finance people getting interested in how do I get to use USDM or shield USD for that matter?

I haven't studied that.

I don't know where they are on the Forbes 500. or whatever, they're successful people, sometimes those people are jerks.

Sometimes they don't know how to run an organization.

Sometimes daddy gave them the money.

Walmart is so rich that there's, like, six, five or six heirs.

They're all in the top 25 of the Forbes 500.

And if you put them all together as one, all their wealth together as one, I mean, they're just, it's crazy.

But they pay people such shitty wages that then these Walmart workers have no choice but to go get on SNAP-