Hosted by Brooklyn Fi
The Liquidity Event is a show about all things personal finance with a laser focus on equity compensation. Your hosts AJ and Shane will take you through the week's news on #fintech, IPOs, SPACs, founder wins and fails, crypto, and whatever else these two nerds think is interesting.
197 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2026-07-01 · ~34 min/episode
Rank
#4275
Substance
54.0
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Scored 2026-07
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The Liquidity Event ranks #4275 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 54.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on specificity & evidence and insight density. The episode does supply several concrete data points - Bonilla's $5.9M principal, 8% rate, $1.2M annual payments 2011 - 2035; Clippers $2B to $7.5B at ~12% annualized; Knicks at ~$10B ranked sixth globally; Ohtani's $680M deferred - though these are publicly available figures rather than original analysis, and the discussion rarely goes deeper than citing them.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
The episode contains a handful of real financial concepts - time value of money applied to the Bonilla contract, franchise appreciation rates, and the NIL cottage industry - but they are surrounded by extensive filler: sports movie lists, celebrity name-drops, personal anecdotes about flights and heart conditions. The signal-to-noise ratio is low for a finance show.
“They owed him $5.9 million. And if you run the math - which I did with my handy dandy TI-89 - it comes out to 8% interest. They didn't pay anything for the first 10 years, and then they're doing $1.2 million for years 11 through 35. If you do the time value of money, it discounts to the exact same number”
“NFL and NBA teams in particular have gone up many times over the last 15 years or something wild like that. It's been really good with TV rights getting renegotiated, with cable cutting, with sports going to platforms like Amazon Prime and Netflix”
Bobby Bonilla Day is a widely recycled annual internet topic; the Madoff-Mets link, franchise appreciation as a wealth-building tool, and NIL complexity are all standard takes that circulate every sports-finance conversation. There is no contrarian framing, first-principles argument, or genuinely fresh angle presented.
“It's an entertainment product at the end of the day”
“players getting paid is a good thing, right?”
Kody is introduced as a colleague at Brooklyn Fi and literally described by the host as 'any man I could find.' He is a generalist financial advisor who follows sports, not a sports-finance practitioner, team executive, agent, or anyone who has operated at scale in this domain.
“I invited a sports expert onto the show - literally any man I could find. So I've got Kody Shearland here with us today”
“I went to a Timberwolves season opener, which was a lot of fun - not this year but the year before”
The episode does supply several concrete data points - Bonilla's $5.9M principal, 8% rate, $1.2M annual payments 2011 - 2035; Clippers $2B to $7.5B at ~12% annualized; Knicks at ~$10B ranked sixth globally; Ohtani's $680M deferred - though these are publicly available figures rather than original analysis, and the discussion rarely goes deeper than citing them.
“They sold to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion in 2014. Everybody thought that was a crazy number - way too high. They're worth $7.5 billion now, which is about a 12% annualized return”
“they're paying him like $2 million a year for 10 years, and then they're gonna owe him $680 million, which doesn't even start paying out until like 2034 or 2035”
AJ is personable but the questions are uniformly soft and leading ('tell us why investing in sports teams is a good idea'), follow-ups rarely probe deeper, and substantial time is spent on tangents like favourite sports movies and personal anecdotes. There is no meaningful pushback or productive disagreement anywhere in the episode.
“Kody, tell us what July 1st is for those not in the know”
“How much does winning a national championship increase their valuation, in your opinion?”
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