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The longer you try to preserve two different lives, the more violently reality will force you to choose one.
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@itswithinme_
Capital Advisory Principal. Ex-RE Private Equity. Professionally Ambitious. Avid Surfer. Deus Vult.
Joined February 2023
- Realizing that you can get into contact with almost anyone you want in the world if you simply type words in an email in the correct order.what was the moment when this happened in your life?
- One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an
- My dad told me from an young age that success is measured by the relationships you have. The older I get, the more I realize that he is inherently right. The money and the journey are just bonuses. They flow from having the right relationships. Each new relationship you establishsometimes i fear getting to this point too soon and having a generational crash out
- Getting a job is not fucking hard, you’re just lazy. This is how to get an interview for any job you want: 1. Discover role you want to apply for 2. Scrape MD or Senior Mgmt email from apollo or list kit 3. Email them and say: Hey Name, my name is X. I found your email inThis is probably the worst job market for recent graduates and junior employees in a very long time If you have a good job currently, you should cherish it. You are one of the lucky ones
- Jaded finance bro here. Glamor of this industry is in the garbage unless you’re slinging your own deals. The people are insufferable. You have 20 year veterans rich on paper but they are only veterans in the sense of excel formulas. Still stuck running numbers for senior
- The most high leverage skill in the 21st century is being a risk taker and it’s not even close. Everything else falls into place.
- Look at all the exits he’s had, money he’s made and how he chooses to allocate vs. your typical guru on here. Prime example of the fact that generating income and building wealth are two different skills.Today I say goodbye to my 30s. It was a wild decade: -Launched my first supplement company (Holy Land Health) in 2015 and went from $1MM rev that year to $23MM the second year. -Had to meet with 9 district attorneys in Oakland after they sent me a letter about that company (it
- The flip side of this is you don’t realize how successful you are at your age compared to the average person. If you are on this side of Twitter, building a business and refuse to fucking give up. Top 1%. Rest is noise.Something to think about
- Fast track your life and make more money by being likeable Most people overcomplicate how to be likable. At work events, they'll randomly be talking to the CEO and will only talk about work and how good of a job they think they are doing. This is the worst possible approach. The
- Same. This is how to get an interview for any job you want: 1. Discover role you want to apply for 2. Scrape MD or Senior Mgmt email from apollo or list kit 3. Email them and say: Hey Name, my name is X. I found your email in my research and am interested in Y role at your
- Still blows my mind how efficiently and cheaply you can test a business thesis these days Can set up an entire Shopify site, fb ads account and ads in a day, get go or no go feed back in a few days with some moderate ad spend Can set up a cold email system in 2 hours, warm up
- 29 today. Here’s 29 things I learned: 1-29: Never fucking give up More life.
- Only corporate jobs that make sense to take: - Investment Banking - PE, REPE, Hedge Fund - Software Sales (I’m sure there are a few others) These all pay well extremely well and allow you to build valuable skills to which you can leverage to buy assets or create a biz
