People quit their jobs with no source of income to pursue the latest biz op.
Billionaire founders simply just work & build at the same time.
Lesson in there.
Brian Armstrong explains how he built Coinbase on nights and weekends while working at Airbnb
Brian first advises those who are currently employed to not build your project on company hours or on your company laptop:
“If you build it on company time or on the company hardware,
I randomly found Ben Bader on my feed one day in 2022 and scrolled through his tweets because he had a gift for authentically & casually explaining deep philosophical topics in a punchy, off-the cuff sort of way.
I gave him a follow & to my surprise he DM’d me that same day
Literal model signed to a top tier agency goes out solo in the hopes that someone will approach her.
Doesn’t drink, doesn’t go to clubs.
Red pill dudes down horrendous.
Another day, another table for one.
I’ve gotten really confident eating out alone, but I wasn’t always. As an introvert, I only have a small group of friends and I’m often alone. I enjoy staying in, but I know I’ll never meet anyone if I don’t go out… and since I don’t drink
- I started a multi 6 figure business at 20 years old from my twin size bed
- Raised $50k from investors for student venture fund
- Uni student full time
- Worked part time at startup
- partied 2-3 nights per week
- had multiple girlfriends throughout
AND I was still ranked
10 yrs ago when 23, I stayed in on Sat nights when everyone else was out drinking/partying, went to the gym and focused on my future. I SACRIFICED my 20s to become the man I am today. Delayed gratification is one of the most important skill sets you can learn as a man.
Last week I quadrupled down and bought ANOTHER $100,000 into $BRETT
the #1 meme on base (publicly recorded see below)
that is already up +$76k in the last week..
thats a salary..
while so many dorks sat here and said "its already at 450M"
I put my money where my mouth was
I spent $5k for Alex Becker’s mastermind in 2021.
The sales call funnel he taught me I still use to this day.
Made me millions of dollars.
Real legend of the game.
Found this picture of me in 2020 with Scoot.
Owned nothing but a bed n a desk n this doofus.
Also the period where I made most of my money.
Good times. Now scoots an asshole.
Weeks of planning. 2 long shoot days. 26 people on set (including the legendary @gabrielhaines)
@defiapp is cooking ON and OFF chain.
Oh and did I mention $600M+ volume in just 3 weeks? 😉