This investor bought a Bored Ape NFT for $1,700 in 2021 and plans to HODL. He explains why the crypto meltdown didn’t stop him from quitting his job to work in Web3.

• Keith Martin bought a Bored Ape NFT in May 2021 for around $1,700 — just as digital assets began to boom.

• It’s now worth almost 100 times that and he told Insider at the NFT.NYC conference he won’t sell any time soon.

• To Martin, the crypto bear market is not a concern, and he even quit his job to get into Web3.

When Keith Martin bought his first Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token in May last year, he paid less than $500 and seemed…