Watch as Sotheby’s Alex Branczik celebrates the white-glove Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction at #SothebysHongKong. Read more highlights from day one of The Hong Kong Sales:
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White gloves are traditionally given to an auctioneer after a sale achieves 100% of lots sold. The 29 March auction achieved a total of HK $548 million / US $70 million, with records set throughout the night. Paintings by Mark Rothko, Joan Mitchell, and Henri Matisse all set new Asia auction records. Artist records were also achieved by Kim Lim and Eugène Carrière.
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My life’s mission is to spread entrepreneurship and venture capital around the world. In the process I continue to back visionary founders early, before they have fully baked their visions.
At Draper, we backed Tesla when there had not been a successful car company started in the US for 50 years.
We backed SpaceX when space travel was reserved for governments and hobbyists.
We backed Coinbase, and still people seem to think the fiat banking system will not fail.
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I favor entrepreneurs who have a passion for an optimistic and challenging outcome.
We have backed more than 60 unicorns, 10 rhinos (fat unicorns), and three trinocorns (Tesla, SpaceX, and Bitcoin) that have reached more than $1 Trillion in market value.
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My main focus for the next decade?
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