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Goldin Ticket

A wide-ranging conversation with the sports collectibles and Netflix impresario Ken Goldin, whose Goldin Auctions has helped legitimize the market. Naturally, he’s now expanding his collectibles empire even further.

Ken Goldin
"I think people realize that I come from a place where this is all I’ve done my entire life, and I’m not somebody who went into the hobby after it became a lucrative industry and is just trying to make money off it. I think that’s the difference, and I think that’s also why the Netflix show is successful," says Ken Goldin. Photo: Courtesy of Goldin
Marion Maneker
July 15, 2025

In person, Ken Goldin is just as intense and driven as he seems on his hit Netflix reality series, King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch. Last year, the show rose as high as No. 4 in the U.S. and No. 20 worldwide on the streamer’s ranking of top series, but Goldin’s Runnemede, New Jersey, domain doesn’t exactly evoke TV stardom. His offices, where I met him last Friday, are little more than a warren of cubicles in a nondescript industrial park. That’s also where Ken set up his studio for filming online content, which should give you some sense of how important Instagram has been for Goldin Auctions, which has 334,000 followers, and Goldin, himself, who has 270,000.