Sal Gilberti
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Sal Gilberti embodies The Pioneer by doing what no one else had done: building the first pure-play commodity grain ETFs and insisting retail investors deserved access to an asset class long gatekept by futures markets. There is missionary conviction in how he leads Teucrium, not reacting to trends but restructuring how ordinary investors understand agricultural commodities as a legitimate, low-correlation building block. Pioneers open territory, and Gilberti opened this one deliberately.
“If you've got an asset and you say to somebody, I got this asset that trades at X, and when there's this supply disruption every four to seven years, it goes to two X and then it trades back down to X — repeat, repeat.”
“It's literally impossible for anyone anywhere on planet Earth to not be using corn every single day, directly or indirectly. It's not possible. And people don't understand that it's a vital commodity.”
“Grains have some of the lowest correlation around besides natural gas and sugar. People are saying maybe the stock market's iffy, bond's moving tandem with stocks — what am I looking for that has a lower correlation?”
Masters in Business: “At The Money: Do Agricultural Commodities Belong in Your Portfolio?”
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