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There may or may not be a missing holo cat poster at the Vayner offices If that is the case, it was definitely not me 💚🐈‍⬛

Since 2004, Pokémon cards have returned ~3,000% vs ~500% for the S&P 500. But this isn’t the whole market it’s the top 1%: 1st editions, PSA 10s, sealed boxes.Fixed supply + growing nostalgia demand = massive prices (like Logan Paul’s $16M+ Pikachu Illustrator). Meanwhile, the S&P moves trillions… Pokémon is a fraction of that. So yes, Pokémon beat the stock market but only if you picked perfectly and sold nostalgia at the right time.

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DJ gives us his picks for This or That.

GaryVee on VeeFriends female characters: Fearless Fairy. Ambitious Angel. Not just names but the traits. Built to spark conversations with the next generation about confidence, ambition, and strength.

Who are you this week? 🤗

Top trading cards sold this past weekend 🔥

Transformers didn’t start as a story… it started as a toy strategy. In the early 1980s, Hasbro partnered with Takara to bring transforming robot toys to the U.S. but they had no characters, no storyline, nothing. So Hasbro teamed up with Marvel Comics to create Optimus Prime, Megatron, and the entire Autobots vs. Decepticons universe… then launched a cartoon in 1984 to sell the toys. Every new toy became a new character. Every episode drove demand. By the mid-80s, it was generating hundreds of millions in sales. Today, Transformers is a multi-billion dollar franchise all from a cartoon originally made to sell toys.

Things that bring good luck. What’s your lucky charm?

How VeeFriends Creates Life Lessons for Kids GaryVee Explains. A kid pulls Alpha Alligator and asks, “What does alpha mean?” Now a parent has a real moment to teach confidence, leadership, and mindset. That’s the point.

Who was the first superhero ever created by Marvel?

GaryVee on VeeFriends Collectibles, Pins, and Rare Coins

Cutting up $2,000 Comic for Topps Chrome Inserts

This guy just cut a $10,000 card, a Grand Master Rare Dark Magician from the new Heroes Set, one of the rarest pulls in modern Yu-Gi-Oh history. With only 100 ever made and found in roughly 1 out of every 60 cases. Stores have been offering between $7,000 and $10,000 for this variant, making this moment one of the most painful in the Yu-Gi-Oh community. This is a PSA to everyone: please be careful when opening your packs.

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An 1888 John Ward card from the G & B Chewing Gum series, one of the earliest cards tied to gum products. The odd size was designed to fit directly inside gum packaging. This card is John Ward a Hall of Famer and one of the stars of the era. Today, an example like this could be worth around $15K+.

Inside the First VeeFriends Topps Chrome 2026 Sketch Cards

What Pokémon is #001 in the Pokédex?

In 1934, the U.S. printed $100,000 bills featuring Woodrow Wilson the largest denomination in American history.But you couldn’t spend them. They were Gold Certificates used by the U.S. Treasury to move massive sums between Federal Reserve banks before electronic transfers existed. They were never released to the public, which means every surviving note technically still belongs to the U.S. government. So if someone somehow had one today it wouldn’t just be rare. It would actually be illegal to own.

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