Personal Brand & Positioning
How did Matt Szczur build an art career after retiring from the MLB?
Answered independently in 1 episodes. Every line below is verbatim from the transcript, timestamped to the moment it was said.
The short answer
What the archive says
01Matt argues the PFP/profile-picture NFT bubble burst but digital art did not — it's simply another medium alongside acrylics, spray paint and watercolor. source →
02Matt built his art business during 2020 by painting culturally relevant subjects — a Michael Jordan piece during 'The Last Dance' — and selling prints online through a third-party fulfiller. source →
03There are two donation procedures: a hip extraction under anesthesia, or the three-to-six-hour apheresis process Matt did, where blood is filtered through a machine to pull white blood cells. source →
In their words
What was actually said
And then the awareness you've brought, I know that obviously stuck with you. And as you've come in out of baseball, you, we thought pre episode, damn artists. Look, Matt, you can't have all the damn talent, dude.
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