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Lyn Alden discusses her new Bitcoin-backed holding company, Orange Juice, and its investment strategy.

Lyn Alden raised $40M to launch Orange Juice, a holding company that buys cash-flowing businesses and layers Bitcoin on top, not another pure-play treasury bet. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsor! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cape⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at cape.co/unchained (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== Lyn Alden just raised $40 million to launch a Bitcoin-backed holding company that skips the trade most of crypto is chasing. Rather than build another pure-play Bitcoin treasury stock, Orange Juice buys cash-flowing, unglamorous businesses and layers a Bitcoin treasury on top at the parent-company level. Lyn Alden, cofounder of Orange Juice and a partner at Ego Death Capital, frames it as a countercyclical alternative to procyclical treasury companies, and she does not spare Strategy from criticism. She compares Orange Juice's structure to Berkshire Hathaway and…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Shin

Guest: Lyn Alden

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• private equity
• holding companies
• cash-flowing businesses
• investment strategy

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• Orange Juice
• Lyn Alden
• private equity
• investment strategy
• Ego Death Capital
• cash-flowing businesses

Sponsors

Cape

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Orange Juice, Ego Death Capital, STRC

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