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My friend got a promotion in 4 days that he had been waiting 2 years for Now he just sits and watches the agents do everything for him A few days ago he called me Complaining he was exhausted from work He sells corporate HR software Every day the same thing - searching for clients, researching companies, finding the HR director, calls and so on An hour per lead. 8 leads a day - that was the ceiling I told him to build a team of 4 agents in Claude The agents scan 200 company websites every night, write letters based on each company's specific problem, analyze when the right person is online, and prepare a full brief before every call Today he called again In 4 days his conversion rate grew by 37% His boss looked at the numbers in silence. Then looked up and said: "What do you need to roll this out across the entire department?" My friend is becoming head of the sales department and getting a percentage of the entire department's revenue full guide on how to build your first agent team - in the article below

My friend got a promotion in 4 days that he had been waiting 2 years for Now he just sits and watches the agents do everything for him A few days ago he called me Complaining he was exhausted from work He sells corporate HR software Every day the same thing - searching for clients, researching companies, finding the HR director, calls and so on An hour per lead. 8 leads a day - that was the ceiling I told him to build a team of 4 agents in Claude The agents scan 200 company websites every night, write letters based on each company's specific problem, analyze when the right person is online, and prepare a full brief before every call Today he called again In 4 days his conversion rate grew by 37% His boss looked at the numbers in silence. Then looked up and said: "What do you need to roll this out across the entire department?" My friend is becoming head of the sales department and getting a percentage of the entire department's revenue full guide on how to build your first agent team - in the article below

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A Carnegie Mellon student launched a Markov Chain model that reads the structure beneath the price and made $67,000 in three weeks on Polymarket. In his applied mathematics classes he studied Markov Chains - the same model physicists used to simulate neutrons in nuclear reactors. The same model describes how prices move on prediction markets. He wrote a Python script. > Takes 60 days of contract price history. > Builds a transition matrix - a map of how the price actually moves between states. > Runs 10,000 simulations in a tenth of a second. > Calibrates the result against data from 72.1 million real trades. The output is an exact probability and position size. No gut feeling. His first test day brought $3,400. A week later he improved the result and hit $17,000. His balance has now reached $67,000. full guide on how to build the same model - in the article below.

A Carnegie Mellon student launched a Markov Chain model that reads the structure beneath the price and made $67,000 in three weeks on Polymarket. In his applied mathematics classes he studied Markov Chains - the same model physicists used to simulate neutrons in nuclear reactors. The same model describes how prices move on prediction markets. He wrote a Python script. > Takes 60 days of contract price history. > Builds a transition matrix - a map of how the price actually moves between states. > Runs 10,000 simulations in a tenth of a second. > Calibrates the result against data from 72.1 million real trades. The output is an exact probability and position size. No gut feeling. His first test day brought $3,400. A week later he improved the result and hit $17,000. His balance has now reached $67,000. full guide on how to build the same model - in the article below.

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She was offered a modeling career, turned it down and went to plaster walls instead. Now she's 30, and that job brings her $336,000 a year She started her company doing volunteer work, renovating other people's spaces for free just to get her hands trained and build some kind of portfolio Everything changed when she filmed herself plastering a wall on her phone. The clip pulled 16 million views After that video her volunteering turned into a company with a real schedule and a waiting list. One video changed her life. Clients started reaching out on their own, and paint and compound manufacturers came knocking. They need a tradeswoman actually standing in the dust with a trowel, not an actress in a clean set of overalls on a studio backdrop The work stayed just as dirty and just as hard, it just started paying from three directions. Her main work brings her $6,000 a month The platform pays $3,000-$5,000 a month Brand deals and manufacturers, $8,000 and up She could have sold her face in modeling, but she chose to sell her skills

2,253,592 views • 18 days ago

Two tower crane operators, the same height, but the comments under their videos are night and day He's around 30, years on cranes behind him and a $6,000-$8,000 paycheck that comes with experience. His clip from the cab pulled 1.4 million views. She's 24, less time in the trade, a $4,000 rate. Her video from the same kind of cab pulled 900k The gap in views is minimal, but under her clip there's always someone who writes that she only gets views because of her looks. Except the algorithm doesn't care what anyone looks like. It shows people what they've never seen, and almost nobody has seen the view from a cab sixty meters up. They both film the same thing: the city below, the work, their day. Neither of them performs for the camera, they just work their shift with a phone on the panel. And both of them get a second paycheck for it, one that doesn't depend on experience, age or how you look. It's not about looks, it's about the fact that your workplace is seen by a handful of people and millions want to look at it. Read the article to find out how to turn your job into a double income Haters, your move

Two tower crane operators, the same height, but the comments under their videos are night and day He's around 30, years on cranes behind him and a $6,000-$8,000 paycheck that comes with experience. His clip from the cab pulled 1.4 million views. She's 24, less time in the trade, a $4,000 rate. Her video from the same kind of cab pulled 900k The gap in views is minimal, but under her clip there's always someone who writes that she only gets views because of her looks. Except the algorithm doesn't care what anyone looks like. It shows people what they've never seen, and almost nobody has seen the view from a cab sixty meters up. They both film the same thing: the city below, the work, their day. Neither of them performs for the camera, they just work their shift with a phone on the panel. And both of them get a second paycheck for it, one that doesn't depend on experience, age or how you look. It's not about looks, it's about the fact that your workplace is seen by a handful of people and millions want to look at it. Read the article to find out how to turn your job into a double income Haters, your move

2,116,541 views • 18 days ago

A 26-year-old woman who repairs game consoles quit her job, opened an online workshop, and now earns more than her former colleagues in the trade. For four years she worked in an ordinary repair shop, behind a counter, where nobody sees what happens to your console after you hand it in. The price list: stick drift, one stick - $10–19. Two - $19–31. Hall effect sensors - up to $34. Cleaning, battery replacement, small jobs - from $6. Work out for yourself how many consoles a month that takes to actually make a living. After she quit, she set up a workshop at home and started bringing in $3,000 a month and up. Viewers send donations on Twitch and Boosty while she repairs PlayStations and Xboxes live, taking them apart in front of thousands of people and narrating every step. Haters will say it only works because she's a woman running streams. But the consoles are mailed to her from the other side of the country. Nobody goes to that trouble over looks. Since she opened the online workshop, her income and her order count have both grown several times over. All it took was turning on a camera.

A 26-year-old woman who repairs game consoles quit her job, opened an online workshop, and now earns more than her former colleagues in the trade. For four years she worked in an ordinary repair shop, behind a counter, where nobody sees what happens to your console after you hand it in. The price list: stick drift, one stick - $10–19. Two - $19–31. Hall effect sensors - up to $34. Cleaning, battery replacement, small jobs - from $6. Work out for yourself how many consoles a month that takes to actually make a living. After she quit, she set up a workshop at home and started bringing in $3,000 a month and up. Viewers send donations on Twitch and Boosty while she repairs PlayStations and Xboxes live, taking them apart in front of thousands of people and narrating every step. Haters will say it only works because she's a woman running streams. But the consoles are mailed to her from the other side of the country. Nobody goes to that trouble over looks. Since she opened the online workshop, her income and her order count have both grown several times over. All it took was turning on a camera.

1,082,988 views • 11 days ago

At 17 she dropped out of school to do plumbing professionally with her father, and now she's 23 and makes over $20,000 a month It all changed with one clip of her taking apart a clogged P-trap. No script, no face on camera, shot on a phone from her overall pocket. Hundreds of thousands of people watched it, people who will never in their lives crawl under their own sink. A week later there was a line of locals in her DMs. They didn't ask the price and didn't haggle, because they'd already seen how she works. Her hour costs $110, and people wait weeks for an open slot instead of calling the first plumber off Google. Then came the part she never planned for. Plumbing suppliers started sending her products to test. Free, just asking her to film how it holds up on the job. Young guys from trade colleges message her for advice more often than they ask their own foremen. People from other cities ask her to recommend someone in their area, and she just passes those leads to friends. Her phone became what expensive advertising is for everyone else, only without the budget. In the evening she doesn't edit anything. She drops the footage into AI, it pulls the best moments on its own, cuts them, adds captions and schedules the week. One hour a week of her time. At 17 they told her she'd ruined her life by dropping out. At 23 she proved to everyone that her life only got better Read the article to find out how to turn your job into a double income

At 17 she dropped out of school to do plumbing professionally with her father, and now she's 23 and makes over $20,000 a month It all changed with one clip of her taking apart a clogged P-trap. No script, no face on camera, shot on a phone from her overall pocket. Hundreds of thousands of people watched it, people who will never in their lives crawl under their own sink. A week later there was a line of locals in her DMs. They didn't ask the price and didn't haggle, because they'd already seen how she works. Her hour costs $110, and people wait weeks for an open slot instead of calling the first plumber off Google. Then came the part she never planned for. Plumbing suppliers started sending her products to test. Free, just asking her to film how it holds up on the job. Young guys from trade colleges message her for advice more often than they ask their own foremen. People from other cities ask her to recommend someone in their area, and she just passes those leads to friends. Her phone became what expensive advertising is for everyone else, only without the budget. In the evening she doesn't edit anything. She drops the footage into AI, it pulls the best moments on its own, cuts them, adds captions and schedules the week. One hour a week of her time. At 17 they told her she'd ruined her life by dropping out. At 23 she proved to everyone that her life only got better Read the article to find out how to turn your job into a double income

922,726 views • 20 days ago

She sold her brand to Estée Lauder at 37 and signed a 25-year ban on working. At 63 she launched a new brand on the exact day the contract ended. "I got fired from Estée Lauder. And it was the best thing that ever happened to me," says Bobbi Brown. When she sold the first company she said: "I won't want to work when I'm 60." The day after the ban ended she launched Jones Road Beauty, now a $1 BILLION empire. "Watch this 24-minute interview and you'll learn how getting fired can become the best thing in your life, and why at 63 you can start all over again, even better than at 30" ↓

3,105,186 views • 2 months ago

One of the best hedge fund managers of the last 30 years, Joel Greenblatt, earned over 40% a year for two decades. He found a serious flaw in ordinary indexes like the S&P 500 and the Russell 1000. Because of it, the indexes automatically buy too much of the overpriced stocks and too little of the cheap ones. In this video he reveals exactly what that flaw is. "The best mutual fund of the 2000s returned 18% a year. The average investor in that same fund lost 11% a year" "Why?" "Because every time the fund started to lag, people left. Every time the market fell, people left. And every time the fund did great, people piled in right after the run." Watch how the individual investor can beat the big players ↓

One of the best hedge fund managers of the last 30 years, Joel Greenblatt, earned over 40% a year for two decades. He found a serious flaw in ordinary indexes like the S&P 500 and the Russell 1000. Because of it, the indexes automatically buy too much of the overpriced stocks and too little of the cheap ones. In this video he reveals exactly what that flaw is. "The best mutual fund of the 2000s returned 18% a year. The average investor in that same fund lost 11% a year" "Why?" "Because every time the fund started to lag, people left. Every time the market fell, people left. And every time the fund did great, people piled in right after the run." Watch how the individual investor can beat the big players ↓

1,175,222 views • 1 month ago

An Oxford student asked Lord Alan Sugar, a billionaire worth £1.2 billion (101st on the list of the richest people in Britain), to help him get work. Sugar answered in front of a packed hall, without softening a single word: 19:30 - "I'm going to have to say no. I succeeded because I had to. No one sorted anything out for me. I didn't go to any government and say 'pretty please, find me some work'. It would have been a waste of bloody time. If I was going to do something, I had to do it myself. And I would say to every one of you here: don't sit around waiting for some government to magically create an environment that makes it easy for you. You've got to go out there and fight for it yourself. No one else is going to control your destiny. Not unless you've got a rich dad. Have you? No? Then you're going to have to do it yourself." Plenty of people were offended by this. But where is he wrong? Over 52 minutes of blunt, honest answers from Sugar, and advice few people dare to say out loud ↓

An Oxford student asked Lord Alan Sugar, a billionaire worth £1.2 billion (101st on the list of the richest people in Britain), to help him get work. Sugar answered in front of a packed hall, without softening a single word: 19:30 - "I'm going to have to say no. I succeeded because I had to. No one sorted anything out for me. I didn't go to any government and say 'pretty please, find me some work'. It would have been a waste of bloody time. If I was going to do something, I had to do it myself. And I would say to every one of you here: don't sit around waiting for some government to magically create an environment that makes it easy for you. You've got to go out there and fight for it yourself. No one else is going to control your destiny. Not unless you've got a rich dad. Have you? No? Then you're going to have to do it yourself." Plenty of people were offended by this. But where is he wrong? Over 52 minutes of blunt, honest answers from Sugar, and advice few people dare to say out loud ↓

998,396 views • 1 month ago

Ryan Reynolds simply called Aviation Gin and said he wanted to buy the whole company, and a year later sold it to Diageo for 610 million He says it grew without an advertising budget, because there almost wasn't one "Necessity is the mother of invention, we don't have a budget like the century old gin companies, ours is tiny, so we're forced to think outside the box" In 27 minutes he explains his model, which turned two boring businesses into 2 billion ↓

Ryan Reynolds simply called Aviation Gin and said he wanted to buy the whole company, and a year later sold it to Diageo for 610 million He says it grew without an advertising budget, because there almost wasn't one "Necessity is the mother of invention, we don't have a budget like the century old gin companies, ours is tiny, so we're forced to think outside the box" In 27 minutes he explains his model, which turned two boring businesses into 2 billion ↓

631,017 views • 1 month ago

Gavin Baker accurately predicted Micron's 10x run in 2025 Now he's making his next big call: "DRAM is probably going to be 30 to 40% of all hyperscaler CapEx next year, every hundreds of billions of dollars spent goes straight to DRAM" He calls it the single most important bottleneck in all of AI, above lasers, power chips, NAND or HDDs, Elon is even turning the TeraFab toward memory because he sees the same thing Only three firms on earth can make the memory these AI servers need "This is as close to magic as science can get" And Micron just locked in supply contracts covering half its revenue, with floor prices already above the margin peaks of past cycles, the economics of the stock are not what they were "If you still hold $MU at a commodity discount to $ASML and $LRCX, that discount is no longer earned" bookmark it, one of the strongest memory theses for 2026-2027 ↓

Gavin Baker accurately predicted Micron's 10x run in 2025 Now he's making his next big call: "DRAM is probably going to be 30 to 40% of all hyperscaler CapEx next year, every hundreds of billions of dollars spent goes straight to DRAM" He calls it the single most important bottleneck in all of AI, above lasers, power chips, NAND or HDDs, Elon is even turning the TeraFab toward memory because he sees the same thing Only three firms on earth can make the memory these AI servers need "This is as close to magic as science can get" And Micron just locked in supply contracts covering half its revenue, with floor prices already above the margin peaks of past cycles, the economics of the stock are not what they were "If you still hold $MU at a commodity discount to $ASML and $LRCX, that discount is no longer earned" bookmark it, one of the strongest memory theses for 2026-2027 ↓

821,815 views • 2 months ago

4 June 1985. Three traders in London, New York, and Hong Kong moved over $1 billion in deals in a single day. In Hong Kong, 24-year-old William Wong was sitting on an open position of £21 million. He had to get out of it before the pound collapsed, but selling the whole amount at once would have given him away to the entire market. He arranged for other dealers to sell smaller amounts at the same time. Then, with one casual wave of five fingers, he gave the signal. The market never even realized what happened. Wong exited his position with his profit fully intact. "I'm here to make money. If the pound is falling, I'll profit from it" This is real archival footage from the 1986 documentary "Billion Dollar Day", one of the most cinematic moments ever captured on a trading floor. bookmark and watch this legendary trading floor footage ↓

4 June 1985. Three traders in London, New York, and Hong Kong moved over $1 billion in deals in a single day. In Hong Kong, 24-year-old William Wong was sitting on an open position of £21 million. He had to get out of it before the pound collapsed, but selling the whole amount at once would have given him away to the entire market. He arranged for other dealers to sell smaller amounts at the same time. Then, with one casual wave of five fingers, he gave the signal. The market never even realized what happened. Wong exited his position with his profit fully intact. "I'm here to make money. If the pound is falling, I'll profit from it" This is real archival footage from the 1986 documentary "Billion Dollar Day", one of the most cinematic moments ever captured on a trading floor. bookmark and watch this legendary trading floor footage ↓

645,868 views • 1 month ago

Gavin Baker, CIO of the $6.5 billion fund Atreides Management, revealed at Sohn 2026 how he makes money on tech and AI the man who previously managed $17 billion at Fidelity and posted one of the best returns in the industry in the interview he explains why the AI cycle is only just beginning, which chip is the most underrated right now, and why the shortage of power and chips is actually a plus for investors bookmark it if you follow tech and AI, real insights here from a man who manages billions ↓

Gavin Baker, CIO of the $6.5 billion fund Atreides Management, revealed at Sohn 2026 how he makes money on tech and AI the man who previously managed $17 billion at Fidelity and posted one of the best returns in the industry in the interview he explains why the AI cycle is only just beginning, which chip is the most underrated right now, and why the shortage of power and chips is actually a plus for investors bookmark it if you follow tech and AI, real insights here from a man who manages billions ↓

728,763 views • 2 months ago

Hedge fund manager Lex van Dam gave 8 ordinary people with no experience $1 million of his own money, two weeks of training and two months to run a real hedge fund and beat the professionals of the City in the middle of the 2008 crisis. "I want to take people with no trading experience at all and teach them to trade. I want to give them all the tools I think are necessary for it. Then I'll give them some of my money, and I want them to deliver results no worse than the top fund managers." "I've put a hundred thousand pounds into this, and none of them has any idea how hard it's going to be." "I'm putting a lot on the line, and if they don't care, I'll make sure they start to care." "I've seen psychologically very strong people who were completely broken by the world of trading. Because in this game every decision matters." This is real footage of ordinary people going from zero through the pressure of the trading floor, the first mistakes, the emotions, and the attempt to build a process under real market conditions. bookmark and watch this legendary footage ↓

Hedge fund manager Lex van Dam gave 8 ordinary people with no experience $1 million of his own money, two weeks of training and two months to run a real hedge fund and beat the professionals of the City in the middle of the 2008 crisis. "I want to take people with no trading experience at all and teach them to trade. I want to give them all the tools I think are necessary for it. Then I'll give them some of my money, and I want them to deliver results no worse than the top fund managers." "I've put a hundred thousand pounds into this, and none of them has any idea how hard it's going to be." "I'm putting a lot on the line, and if they don't care, I'll make sure they start to care." "I've seen psychologically very strong people who were completely broken by the world of trading. Because in this game every decision matters." This is real footage of ordinary people going from zero through the pressure of the trading floor, the first mistakes, the emotions, and the attempt to build a process under real market conditions. bookmark and watch this legendary footage ↓

512,157 views • 1 month ago

Magic Johnson bought the Dodgers for 2.2 billion when everyone was screaming that he overpaid, and today the team is worth 8 billion He explains why sports teams are an asset that's almost impossible to lose on Jerry Buss once got the Lakers for 65 million, and recently the team sold for 10 billion He bought the women's team Sparks for a few million and took losses for years, and now it's worth 300 million "Nobody in America is ever going to stop watching sports, so team valuations will only keep going up" Full conversation about how to read deals, pick partners, and why boring businesses beat any hype ↓

Magic Johnson bought the Dodgers for 2.2 billion when everyone was screaming that he overpaid, and today the team is worth 8 billion He explains why sports teams are an asset that's almost impossible to lose on Jerry Buss once got the Lakers for 65 million, and recently the team sold for 10 billion He bought the women's team Sparks for a few million and took losses for years, and now it's worth 300 million "Nobody in America is ever going to stop watching sports, so team valuations will only keep going up" Full conversation about how to read deals, pick partners, and why boring businesses beat any hype ↓

235,326 views • 1 month ago

Bill Gates just called AI the biggest technical thing of his entire life and said its influence is impossible to overstate. the man who built Microsoft and lived through every tech wave of the last 50 years. Bill Gates: "there will be a frenzy. some companies will burn billions on data centers whose electricity is too expensive, and won't earn it back before the next generation of chips arrives" everyone around him pushed him to stay quiet so the race wouldn't slow down, but he said it straight "this will hit the job market" bookmark it and watch him break it down ↓

Bill Gates just called AI the biggest technical thing of his entire life and said its influence is impossible to overstate. the man who built Microsoft and lived through every tech wave of the last 50 years. Bill Gates: "there will be a frenzy. some companies will burn billions on data centers whose electricity is too expensive, and won't earn it back before the next generation of chips arrives" everyone around him pushed him to stay quiet so the race wouldn't slow down, but he said it straight "this will hit the job market" bookmark it and watch him break it down ↓

584,764 views • 2 months ago

His wife put all their savings into a single biotech stock and watched the ticker climb for hours: Microsoft went from $50 to $220. they believed the market gave them a chance to get rich fast, a chance their parents never had. "we don't want to miss this train. if we don't get in now, we'll never be able to buy a house and pay for the kids' college." by spring 1996 mutual funds had passed $3 trillion, more than the GDP of France, and 85% of that money had come in over just six years. in this rare footage you can see how ordinary people rushed into stocks en masse on a wave of hype, and how the pressure for fast results pushed managers into risky bets. bookmark it and watch as a lesson from the past, especially now amid the AI hype ↓

His wife put all their savings into a single biotech stock and watched the ticker climb for hours: Microsoft went from $50 to $220. they believed the market gave them a chance to get rich fast, a chance their parents never had. "we don't want to miss this train. if we don't get in now, we'll never be able to buy a house and pay for the kids' college." by spring 1996 mutual funds had passed $3 trillion, more than the GDP of France, and 85% of that money had come in over just six years. in this rare footage you can see how ordinary people rushed into stocks en masse on a wave of hype, and how the pressure for fast results pushed managers into risky bets. bookmark it and watch as a lesson from the past, especially now amid the AI hype ↓

262,820 views • 1 month ago

The co-founder of Diameter Capital Partners, which manages over $30 billion, shared his analysis of the private credit market at the Sohn 2026 conference Scott Goodwin is one of the most respected credit investors on Wall Street, the former head of High Yield Trading at Citi, who founded Diameter Capital in 2017 in 16 minutes you'll understand why so much risk has built up in the private credit market, especially in SaaS lending: high leverage, weak covenants, and money handed out against ARR instead of real cash flow bookmark it, a must watch if you invest in credit, BDCs, or private debt

The co-founder of Diameter Capital Partners, which manages over $30 billion, shared his analysis of the private credit market at the Sohn 2026 conference Scott Goodwin is one of the most respected credit investors on Wall Street, the former head of High Yield Trading at Citi, who founded Diameter Capital in 2017 in 16 minutes you'll understand why so much risk has built up in the private credit market, especially in SaaS lending: high leverage, weak covenants, and money handed out against ARR instead of real cash flow bookmark it, a must watch if you invest in credit, BDCs, or private debt

320,840 views • 2 months ago

Larry Robbins, founder of Glenview Capital with around $5.6 billion in assets under management, presented nine companies across three market categories at the Sohn 2026 conference "Forty-one stocks in the S&P doubled in a year, while almost a third fell in a rising market, we've never seen this kind of dichotomy" The man who pitched Teva and Global Payments a year ago, and both worked out, explains in ten minutes which beaten-down stocks with turnaround potential to step into and which doubled names are still cheap bookmark it and you'll learn how a manager of serious capital plays this fragmented market ↓

Larry Robbins, founder of Glenview Capital with around $5.6 billion in assets under management, presented nine companies across three market categories at the Sohn 2026 conference "Forty-one stocks in the S&P doubled in a year, while almost a third fell in a rising market, we've never seen this kind of dichotomy" The man who pitched Teva and Global Payments a year ago, and both worked out, explains in ten minutes which beaten-down stocks with turnaround potential to step into and which doubled names are still cheap bookmark it and you'll learn how a manager of serious capital plays this fragmented market ↓

287,416 views • 2 months ago

Shaquille O'Neal earned $292 million in NBA salary, blew through most of it, and admits he made a ton of financial mistakes. Today his net worth is around $500 million, and more than half of that money came NOT from basketball, but from business. He says it all came down to one lesson: "Before you succeed, you must first learn to fail. Never let anyone tell you that you can't get it done." Instead of just taking money for endorsements, he started buying equity in businesses - Five Guys, Papa John's, Krispy Kreme. Equity pays you even after everyone forgets about you. Endorsements only pay while you're relevant. In 28 minutes you'll learn how the habits of champions carry over into business and why the people around you decide everything ↓

Shaquille O'Neal earned $292 million in NBA salary, blew through most of it, and admits he made a ton of financial mistakes. Today his net worth is around $500 million, and more than half of that money came NOT from basketball, but from business. He says it all came down to one lesson: "Before you succeed, you must first learn to fail. Never let anyone tell you that you can't get it done." Instead of just taking money for endorsements, he started buying equity in businesses - Five Guys, Papa John's, Krispy Kreme. Equity pays you even after everyone forgets about you. Endorsements only pay while you're relevant. In 28 minutes you'll learn how the habits of champions carry over into business and why the people around you decide everything ↓

225,966 views • 2 months ago

Paul Tudor Jones: "I watched the richest man in the world go broke in six weeks. I decided I would never blindly trust any asset again and never get too attached to a position" In this interview Paul talks about 50 years on the market, how he lived through Black Monday in 1987 and the silver crisis, and why he still can't retire. "My grandfather told me: son, you're worth exactly as much as you can write a check for tomorrow" "Bunker Hunt bought around 200 million ounces of silver at an average price of about $3.50. By 1979 silver was at $30" Hunt's fortune grew to $5-6 billion, almost three times more than the next richest man on the planet. "Someone asked him: what are you going to do with all that silver? He said: bury it. And I'll buy another 20 million ounces and bury those too" Then COMEX went to liquidation only. Silver collapsed from $50 to under $10 in eight weeks. Watch what a market where prices double and halve every year does to a man ↓

Paul Tudor Jones: "I watched the richest man in the world go broke in six weeks. I decided I would never blindly trust any asset again and never get too attached to a position" In this interview Paul talks about 50 years on the market, how he lived through Black Monday in 1987 and the silver crisis, and why he still can't retire. "My grandfather told me: son, you're worth exactly as much as you can write a check for tomorrow" "Bunker Hunt bought around 200 million ounces of silver at an average price of about $3.50. By 1979 silver was at $30" Hunt's fortune grew to $5-6 billion, almost three times more than the next richest man on the planet. "Someone asked him: what are you going to do with all that silver? He said: bury it. And I'll buy another 20 million ounces and bury those too" Then COMEX went to liquidation only. Silver collapsed from $50 to under $10 in eight weeks. Watch what a market where prices double and halve every year does to a man ↓

126,311 views • 1 month ago

Bill Gates was asked live on air whether AI is a bubble. he didn't soften his answer. the man who built Microsoft and lived through every tech wave of the last 50 years. "it's a bubble only in the sense that not all of these valuations will go up, some will fall. but behind it stands a deeply profound technology that will reshape the world. there's not the slightest doubt about that" he added that the competition will be brutal and a share of the overvalued companies won't be worth that much, but the technology itself is nothing anyone should doubt. bookmark it and watch the full interview ↓

Bill Gates was asked live on air whether AI is a bubble. he didn't soften his answer. the man who built Microsoft and lived through every tech wave of the last 50 years. "it's a bubble only in the sense that not all of these valuations will go up, some will fall. but behind it stands a deeply profound technology that will reshape the world. there's not the slightest doubt about that" he added that the competition will be brutal and a share of the overvalued companies won't be worth that much, but the technology itself is nothing anyone should doubt. bookmark it and watch the full interview ↓

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