Episode 1035: I Quit My Company. It Cost Me Millions. Ultragenyx: Crazy Cheap. QCLS Stock
The Shkreli Pill
September 19, 2026
In this episode, Martin reflects on leaving one of his companies and discusses the financial consequences of that decision, along with the lessons he took from the experience.
Speakers Martin Shkreli, Keith
Martin Shkreli (0:00)
So, let's look at this PDAC data for Derek Raseneb. It should be in the label.
I'm not sure I love this name, but most drug names kind of suck. Oh, yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, SLS is gonna crash, but it's gonna still take like a month before their final patient dies or whatever. Working hard to get my dream. Did I talk about the situational? I was the first person to break the situational awareness news on Twitter. I don't know Iova. I'm looking at RVMD right now. Let's ask ChatGPD some questions. What percentage of patients will get Razon Q or PDAC?
How many US patients is that? Let's try medium thinking effort.
I don't really care about high thinking effort for my investments. Yeah, I saw the trailer. I don't really know what to make of it. You know, I'm more focused on my life than other people's lives. I can't do great things by worrying about other people. Microd980. Jumping on the IonQ bandwagon? Who jumped on the IonQ bandwagon? How will I let you know if something changes? Unless you watch me 24-7? You want me to personally let you know? Yeah, like Abivax. I don't think you should go full some of you guys I can't deal with. I don't know what's going to happen in BWET. Rare is mooning? About mooning? It's 5%.
I think there was a pretty big seller over the last few weeks. Yeah, some people are chart junkies in that case. Trading Vue is a good product for you. We're not that chart focused. Yeah, I talked about QCLS earlier. We basically couldn't, they couldn't keep us there. We quit. It stinks because my wife had to get approval from OpenAI to join the board of directors. We went through a lot of to join the company. They don't really care because the warrant holders control the company. So they don't really care what the common stock is. Something became increasingly clear as we moved on.
So we just decided to take our ball and go somewhere else. Yeah, I'll make a tweet about it, but again, I just got off a plane. So I think maybe we'll start our own photonic computing company. Which has got to be a good long here. RVMD. Damn, Keith made 10 racks on AMD. Let's go.
Keith (2:08)
Let's go.
Martin Shkreli (2:10)
That's the spread. That's the spread. That's the spread.
Keith (2:13)
That's the spread. I think I'm going to trip over the knees.
Martin Shkreli (2:16)
Yeah, we'll go through the numbers later. We'll go band for band. Oh, I like trading meme coins. You want to trade meme coins? Let's trade some.
Oh man, look at that coin. I cannot say that coin's name.
Keith (2:30)
AMD reportedly compressed 7% ship price increase as TSM.
Martin Shkreli (2:34)
Who? What?
Keith (2:35)
AMD reportedly compressed 7% ship price increase as TSM cost.
Martin Shkreli (2:41)
Yeah, that sounds right.
Keith (2:43)
TSM is...
Martin Shkreli (2:45)
Yeah, TSM is getting more expensive. They're passing that through to AMD. Like, what is this? Chart didn't load, retrying. Like, this thing is so... Like, I can't see the chart. Okay, I don't know. Like, how do I trade this if I can't see the chart? I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. Feet coin. That sounds good. Wow, feet coin is so cool. Keith sounds like the AI reading the news titles. It's your fans. It's your fans. They're my fans. It's your fans. There's so many rap moments. Yeah, we're definitely going to have a lot of integration, all that, for sure. Thanks, Keith. I shorted AMD, and now I know why I got racked. K-money was long. Feet coin. Let's go. What?
Listen, $10 a minute? I'm taking it.
I'm taking it. They're not following me into the trade, though. That's okay, because I could run it.
I runned it up.
Keith (3:34)
Look at that.
Martin Shkreli (3:34)
Bam.
Keith (3:35)
Bam.
Martin Shkreli (3:36)
The run rate on pump fun is in the millions.
Maybe you sleep on millions, but I don't. I'll take millions of profits anytime. He's a real pipe hitter. That's a coin. That's a coin. Yes.
Pipe hitter. Pipe hitter. He's a pipe hitter. See, these people are playing with me, man.
Playing with me. You're playing with me, bro.
Stop playing with me, bro. Yeah, I don't have an NDA. I just have some MMPI, which I don't want to share, obviously. Exactly, Michael. Sheet coin, you say? It's an all-time high, bro. Everybody get it chased. Next on Blueprint Radio, the Feet coin founder speaks with us live. It's some Indian guy. I'm sorry, Zahn Beister. I also lost money. Big waste of time. Howard Stern wore a wig? No way. My favorite bestie is probably Chamath, man. He's grown on me. I didn't know the guy. I was a hater like everybody else. Now I see. My eyes have been open. Now I can see. I'm sorry. Rugs, coins from Easy Dollars. I bought this. I bought this token.
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