AJ Scaramucci built a comic, card and fossil collection as alternative assets

AJ Scaramucci, founder of Solari Capital (Image: Solari) For years, Silicon Valley investor AJ Scaramucci quietly assembled an unusual collection of comics, trading cards and even dinosaur bones. Now he argues these objects belong alongside gold and bitcoin as serious alternative assets. Scaramucci founded Solari Capital, a venture firm that has just emerged from stealth after deploying roughly 350 million dollars, and he launched a collectables holding company called Treasure Trove earlier this year. He reasons that scarce cultural treasures can protect wealth when currencies lose value. This article explains the collection, the investment logic behind it, and how it connects to his wider technology investment thesis.Who is AJ Scaramucci, the Solari Capital founder with 350 million dollars investedScaramucci began in science, with an early interest in amateur astronomy and time in a bioelectronics laboratory, before moving to the Bay Area, joining Tesla in 2013 and then spending a rotation at Google. According to Fortune, he credits Peter Diamandis's book Abundance with shaping his worldview, and he later worked under Diamandis as an entrepreneur-in-residence and at Kai-Fu Lee's S...