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 establish
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 in
This 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
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.
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
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