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70% of second businesses fail after an exit. Anastasia Koroleva studied post exit founders for 13 years and came on Moneywise to explain why. Her exit: -Built a bootstrap company to a "nine-digit" exit (over $100M) -Lost half her net worth through divorce and "stupid mistakes" -Now worth high... eight figures -Started a second business that failed miserably Her money setup: -Spends $650K-$1M annually for family of 5 -No wealth manager (tried many, didn't like any) -Portfolio: 65% liquid assets, 25% private credit, 10% private equity -Owns homes in London and South France But after studying hundreds of post-exit founders, she found many follow the same psychological pattern. The common traps: -Starting too soon (using business to escape identity crisis) -Starting too late (skills atrophy, relationships fade) -Naive industry jumps (no competitive advantage -Misunderstanding your strengths (creator vs. operator) -Sudden Wealth Syndrome (irrational fear of losing money) Her biggest insight? "Most of us don't actually look at the big picture, and because of that, we fall into a very predictable trap." She believes it takes about 10 years to fully adjust after a big exit, and everyone struggles during this period. There's no escaping it. What she recommends: -give yourself 1-2 years to let things sllow down -Rebuild your basics (community, purpose, health), which is what your company likely gave you -Attack the next thing with clear motivation Full pod is live. Harry said it's the most important episode we've done. Agree?show more

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Aisar

256,220 просмотров • 20 дней назад

Alan on the factory model and how it is the root cause of everything happening in the private markets today: “ Everything that is covered in the media is just talking about the symptoms and not actually getting to the root cause. The root cause of this is the change of behavior patterns of the factory model. The way that we define the factory model in our industry is, there's two parts to it, and then there's an output. The first part is the industrialization of the fundraising process, or I'd say liability gathering. So literally raising as much capital as fast as you can. What comes second is, as a result of that, the industrialization of the asset side. So think about investing. So if you're on an investment team and all of a sudden your firm has a lot of money to invest your behavior has to start to change because you have to deploy that money much quicker. The best way to raise a lot of capital is to make it very simple. Make it very narrow. What started to change in 2018 is there are these things called SMAs (separately managed accounts). Prior to 2018, for the most part, the private capital ecosystem was basically funneled through funds. [After] every conversation with LPs was basically we want an SMA – you go to an LP, and say, “we're gonna raise $500 million or a $100 million and we're going to just do direct lending, or private equity, or real estate. The industry started to raise capital from the institutional channel. So pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, to some extent, endowments raise as much capital as possible in the simplest form. But the growth in institutional SMAs started to really taper off. So the next place where the industry started to go was the wealth space. But the characterization of the wealth space is that it's always easiest to raise in the pro-cyclical environments when things are going really well. But when things start to not go well, the wealth space or retail or individuals want their money back quickly – it's an important concept. And it got us to one of the symptoms that we're here today. But the one thing I wanna point out is that the SMA was a symptom, what's going on in the wealth system is a symptom. The stuck private assets bought post COVID paid way too much – all that stuff is symptoms. The root cause of this is the change of behavior patterns of the factory model.

Alan on the factory model and how it is the root cause of everything happening in the private markets today: “ Everything that is covered in the media is just talking about the symptoms and not actually getting to the root cause. The root cause of this is the change of behavior patterns of the factory model. The way that we define the factory model in our industry is, there's two parts to it, and then there's an output. The first part is the industrialization of the fundraising process, or I'd say liability gathering. So literally raising as much capital as fast as you can. What comes second is, as a result of that, the industrialization of the asset side. So think about investing. So if you're on an investment team and all of a sudden your firm has a lot of money to invest your behavior has to start to change because you have to deploy that money much quicker. The best way to raise a lot of capital is to make it very simple. Make it very narrow. What started to change in 2018 is there are these things called SMAs (separately managed accounts). Prior to 2018, for the most part, the private capital ecosystem was basically funneled through funds. [After] every conversation with LPs was basically we want an SMA – you go to an LP, and say, “we're gonna raise $500 million or a $100 million and we're going to just do direct lending, or private equity, or real estate. The industry started to raise capital from the institutional channel. So pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, to some extent, endowments raise as much capital as possible in the simplest form. But the growth in institutional SMAs started to really taper off. So the next place where the industry started to go was the wealth space. But the characterization of the wealth space is that it's always easiest to raise in the pro-cyclical environments when things are going really well. But when things start to not go well, the wealth space or retail or individuals want their money back quickly – it's an important concept. And it got us to one of the symptoms that we're here today. But the one thing I wanna point out is that the SMA was a symptom, what's going on in the wealth system is a symptom. The stuck private assets bought post COVID paid way too much – all that stuff is symptoms. The root cause of this is the change of behavior patterns of the factory model.

Patrick OShaughnessy

32,904 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

The Sky is Not What You Think: A Former Air Force Insider Reveals the Alarming Evidence of Deliberate Atmospheric Contamination. They told her it was a conspiracy theory. She set out to prove it, and instead, it proved her entire worldview wrong. Kristen Meghan, a former USAF Bio-Environmental Engineer, was tasked with a critical duty: approving or denying hazardous chemicals to protect human health. Her job was preventive medicine. While attempting to debunk the "chemtrails" theory, her research led her to a chilling discovery. While processing the Air Force's hazardous material forms (AF Form 3952), she encountered something alarming. She found massive, unexplained quantities of aluminum, barium, and strontium—in forms like oxides and sulfates—with no listed manufacturer on the safety sheets. When she asked what these materials were for, she was met with silence. When she refused to approve them, the pressure began. Her demonization started. She was questioned, her mental health was threatened, and she was subtly warned about the consequences for her family. So, she conducted her own tests. Air and soil sampling revealed high levels of these very contaminants. The evidence on paper was now on the ground. She realized a terrifying truth: after nine years of swearing to protect human health, she had uncovered a program doing the exact opposite. Geoengineering is not a future threat; it is a current, active reality. Your tax dollars are funding it. Pilots and loaders have confided in her, terrified to come forward, fearing they will "end up like Snowden." The "why" is complex—from weather modification to weaponization, tied to agendas like Agenda 21. But the "what" is clear. Of all our eroding freedoms, this is the pinnacle issue. You can have your guns, your money, and your property. But if you cannot breathe the air, drink the water, or eat food that isn't contaminated, what is it all for? This is not a conspiracy. It is a testimony from a trained professional who saw it from the inside. The question is, are you ready to listen?

The Sky is Not What You Think: A Former Air Force Insider Reveals the Alarming Evidence of Deliberate Atmospheric Contamination. They told her it was a conspiracy theory. She set out to prove it, and instead, it proved her entire worldview wrong. Kristen Meghan, a former USAF Bio-Environmental Engineer, was tasked with a critical duty: approving or denying hazardous chemicals to protect human health. Her job was preventive medicine. While attempting to debunk the "chemtrails" theory, her research led her to a chilling discovery. While processing the Air Force's hazardous material forms (AF Form 3952), she encountered something alarming. She found massive, unexplained quantities of aluminum, barium, and strontium—in forms like oxides and sulfates—with no listed manufacturer on the safety sheets. When she asked what these materials were for, she was met with silence. When she refused to approve them, the pressure began. Her demonization started. She was questioned, her mental health was threatened, and she was subtly warned about the consequences for her family. So, she conducted her own tests. Air and soil sampling revealed high levels of these very contaminants. The evidence on paper was now on the ground. She realized a terrifying truth: after nine years of swearing to protect human health, she had uncovered a program doing the exact opposite. Geoengineering is not a future threat; it is a current, active reality. Your tax dollars are funding it. Pilots and loaders have confided in her, terrified to come forward, fearing they will "end up like Snowden." The "why" is complex—from weather modification to weaponization, tied to agendas like Agenda 21. But the "what" is clear. Of all our eroding freedoms, this is the pinnacle issue. You can have your guns, your money, and your property. But if you cannot breathe the air, drink the water, or eat food that isn't contaminated, what is it all for? This is not a conspiracy. It is a testimony from a trained professional who saw it from the inside. The question is, are you ready to listen?

Camus

333,950 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

Carrie Fisher said something in an interview that perfectly captures how creative instinct works. She was asked whether reinventing herself as a writer was a conscious decision. Her answer: "I don't think I've made many conscious decisions. I make most of my decisions in my sleep." She didn't sit down one day and declare herself a writer. It was a slow evolution, pulled forward by what she actually loved consuming. "I wrote fiction, which is what I read. And now I write screenplays, which is what I watch." That's a principle worth sitting with. She was simply doing the thing she already did for pleasure. The writing path itself began almost accidentally. After an interview in Esquire, she was approached to write a non-fiction book. That fell apart. She couldn't even remember the format she was supposed to write in. "Essays or something," she said. "See, you can't even think of the name for it. That's why I couldn't do it." So she did what made sense to her and wrote fiction instead. The screenwriting came the same way. But what most people don't know is that Fisher was doing script work decades before it became widely known. She learned punchup by necessity, not by design. On the set of Star Wars, she and Harrison Ford were handed dialogue that simply could not be spoken aloud. She described telling George Lucas: "You can type this, but you cannot say it. It'll take a couple of minutes for the nava computer to calculate the coordinates." She said it took 20 takes. Out of self-defence, she started reworking lines. Ford did the same. That habit eventually turned into a career doing punchup for major Hollywood films, helping writers fix dialogue that looked good on the page but died in the room. And then there was the work she wrote for her mother, Debbie Reynolds. Two television pilots, neither of which ever aired. Her reason for wanting to work with her mother is one of the more honest things ever said about family dynamics in Hollywood. "The main thing I want to do is work with my mom so that we don't have to have those Christmas dinners anymore. Just have a job with her and you can order her around." It didn't go the way she planned. Her grandmother showed up and bossed both of them around and, as Fisher put it, "got all the money."

Carrie Fisher said something in an interview that perfectly captures how creative instinct works. She was asked whether reinventing herself as a writer was a conscious decision. Her answer: "I don't think I've made many conscious decisions. I make most of my decisions in my sleep." She didn't sit down one day and declare herself a writer. It was a slow evolution, pulled forward by what she actually loved consuming. "I wrote fiction, which is what I read. And now I write screenplays, which is what I watch." That's a principle worth sitting with. She was simply doing the thing she already did for pleasure. The writing path itself began almost accidentally. After an interview in Esquire, she was approached to write a non-fiction book. That fell apart. She couldn't even remember the format she was supposed to write in. "Essays or something," she said. "See, you can't even think of the name for it. That's why I couldn't do it." So she did what made sense to her and wrote fiction instead. The screenwriting came the same way. But what most people don't know is that Fisher was doing script work decades before it became widely known. She learned punchup by necessity, not by design. On the set of Star Wars, she and Harrison Ford were handed dialogue that simply could not be spoken aloud. She described telling George Lucas: "You can type this, but you cannot say it. It'll take a couple of minutes for the nava computer to calculate the coordinates." She said it took 20 takes. Out of self-defence, she started reworking lines. Ford did the same. That habit eventually turned into a career doing punchup for major Hollywood films, helping writers fix dialogue that looked good on the page but died in the room. And then there was the work she wrote for her mother, Debbie Reynolds. Two television pilots, neither of which ever aired. Her reason for wanting to work with her mother is one of the more honest things ever said about family dynamics in Hollywood. "The main thing I want to do is work with my mom so that we don't have to have those Christmas dinners anymore. Just have a job with her and you can order her around." It didn't go the way she planned. Her grandmother showed up and bossed both of them around and, as Fisher put it, "got all the money."

History Nerd

42,474 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

SHE PLEADED GUILTY TO A CRIME THAT NEVER HAPPENED TO STAY OUT OF PRISON Let me tell you about Wendy Buffrey. She ran the Post Office branch in Up Hatherley, Cheltenham, from 1998 to 2008. She worked hard and grew the branch salary from 26,000 pounds to 65,000 pounds. Then a computer system called Horizon decided she owed money that never actually went missing. In 2010 she stood in Gloucester Crown Court and pleaded guilty to false accounting. Her own barrister warned her she had no chance against the Post Office and told her she was facing 5 years in prison if she fought the charge. She barely remembers the hearing. She remembers her son sobbing in the gallery above her. She sold her business. She sold her home. She repaid 26,256.63 pounds and 1,500 pounds in costs to a company that accused her using a computer that was wrong. She did all this while caring for a sick husband. The Criminal Cases Review Commission Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) did not refer her case until 2020. The Court of Appeal finally quashed her conviction in April 2021. That is 11 years carrying a criminal record for a crime that never happened. Her father and her son both died before her name was cleared. She told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry she could not tell either of them the news. She also told the inquiry she had considered taking her own life. Post Office chairman Tim Parker eventually apologised for what he called historical failures. Historical failures is corporate language for we destroyed your life for over a decade and called it an accounting error. Wendy said she feels like one of the lucky ones because she is likely to get compensation. Hundreds of other postmasters are still waiting for theirs. Blame the postmaster. Protect the brand. Apologise once the damage is permanent and half the family is gone. That is how this institution operates. SOURCES ITV News West Country BBC Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Nick Wallis

Artur Nadolny

18,657 просмотров • 2 дней назад

A Google DeepMind researcher cornered me at a bar in Hayes Valley I was showing my Polymarket PNL to a friend. She leaned over. Didn't introduce herself. "That's not a trading app. Show me your stack" I told her. Claude Code. Four repos. $25 a month. She set down her drink. "We tested this internally. You connect Claude directly to a dataset. It builds its own detectors. But nobody ships it because compliance kills everything" I asked what she meant. She took my phone. Opened one link. 86 million trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit. "You don't tell Claude what to look for. It finds the wallets that win. Then it finds WHY they win. Then it copies the pattern" Her team spent 9 months building this for a hedge fund. 14 people. $2M budget. "The part that took us the longest - exit logic. Everyone thinks entries matter. They don't. Exits are the entire game" I told her my bot cuts at 85% of expected move or on a 3x volume spike. She went quiet. "Who taught you that" Claude Code found it in poly_data. Top wallets exit before resolution 91% of the time. They capture the move and leave. She opened another link. "This is the scanner. Three commands. 500+ markets. No API key. Claude scores them in 20 minutes" "That's our exact infra. Except it took us 9 months and you did it in a weekend" My setup: Claude API - $20/mo VPS - $5/mo poly_data - free polymarket-cli - free 19 days. 4 agents. 74% win rate. Copytrade here: I showed her the article where I broke down every repo, every command, every dollar. She read it for five minutes. Then: "You just open-sourced our entire pipeline" She texted me the next day. "My team lead saw your thread. Take it down" Too late.

A Google DeepMind researcher cornered me at a bar in Hayes Valley I was showing my Polymarket PNL to a friend. She leaned over. Didn't introduce herself. "That's not a trading app. Show me your stack" I told her. Claude Code. Four repos. $25 a month. She set down her drink. "We tested this internally. You connect Claude directly to a dataset. It builds its own detectors. But nobody ships it because compliance kills everything" I asked what she meant. She took my phone. Opened one link. 86 million trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit. "You don't tell Claude what to look for. It finds the wallets that win. Then it finds WHY they win. Then it copies the pattern" Her team spent 9 months building this for a hedge fund. 14 people. $2M budget. "The part that took us the longest - exit logic. Everyone thinks entries matter. They don't. Exits are the entire game" I told her my bot cuts at 85% of expected move or on a 3x volume spike. She went quiet. "Who taught you that" Claude Code found it in poly_data. Top wallets exit before resolution 91% of the time. They capture the move and leave. She opened another link. "This is the scanner. Three commands. 500+ markets. No API key. Claude scores them in 20 minutes" "That's our exact infra. Except it took us 9 months and you did it in a weekend" My setup: Claude API - $20/mo VPS - $5/mo poly_data - free polymarket-cli - free 19 days. 4 agents. 74% win rate. Copytrade here: I showed her the article where I broke down every repo, every command, every dollar. She read it for five minutes. Then: "You just open-sourced our entire pipeline" She texted me the next day. "My team lead saw your thread. Take it down" Too late.

Lunar

124,367 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Bryan Johnson came on Moneywise! Reveals entire net worth and his spend. That’s cool. But a bigger takeaway: his reason for doing this entire thing is to be remembered in 2500. I think having a mission like that outside of money - so good. Also…this is the first time on Moneywise that we did video. Some stuff from the pod: Most people know him for selling Braintree for $800M and starting Blueprint, his longevity protocol where he’s trying to reverse his age. But here's the surprising thing - from age 21, his only goal was to earn the respect of the 25th century. He wants to be one of the 10 people from our era that future generations actually remember. Money was only ever a tool. His view is simple: in 500 years, no one will care how rich you were. Don't Die (his current project) isn't about fear of death - he's actually at peace with dying. It's about creating what he believes will be one of humanity's most important ideological shifts, right up there with the printing press and industrial revolution. In this episode, he breaks down the real numbers: how he deployed his wealth, what he keeps liquid vs illiquid, and why he passed up easier paths to billions to pursue something he thinks will actually matter centuries from now. Check it out on YouTube and let me know what you think.

Bryan Johnson came on Moneywise! Reveals entire net worth and his spend. That’s cool. But a bigger takeaway: his reason for doing this entire thing is to be remembered in 2500. I think having a mission like that outside of money - so good. Also…this is the first time on Moneywise that we did video. Some stuff from the pod: Most people know him for selling Braintree for $800M and starting Blueprint, his longevity protocol where he’s trying to reverse his age. But here's the surprising thing - from age 21, his only goal was to earn the respect of the 25th century. He wants to be one of the 10 people from our era that future generations actually remember. Money was only ever a tool. His view is simple: in 500 years, no one will care how rich you were. Don't Die (his current project) isn't about fear of death - he's actually at peace with dying. It's about creating what he believes will be one of humanity's most important ideological shifts, right up there with the printing press and industrial revolution. In this episode, he breaks down the real numbers: how he deployed his wealth, what he keeps liquid vs illiquid, and why he passed up easier paths to billions to pursue something he thinks will actually matter centuries from now. Check it out on YouTube and let me know what you think.

Sam Parr

97,875 просмотров • 1 год назад

🚨 THE BIGGEST IPO IN HISTORY HAS ONE UGLY THING IN COMMON WITH EVERY MARKET TOP This is not a theory. It happened for 100 YEARS. Goldman Sachs in 1928. Intel in 1971. AT&T in 2000. Every one looked like the opportunity of a lifetime. Every one came near a major market top. Every one was followed by a brutal correction. Funny how the biggest “once-in-a-generation” IPOs always show up when the market is already overheated. Probably nothing. Now look at the real problem nobody wants to talk about: A $2 TRILLION listing needs buyers. Buyers need cash. But cash on the sidelines is already sitting near historic lows. So where does the money actually come from? It doesn’t appear out of nowhere. It comes from selling what funds already own. That means: • Big tech gets sold • Indexes get rebalanced • Liquidity gets drained • Retail becomes the exit JPMorgan estimates passive funds may need to dump around $95 BILLION of the biggest tech stocks just to make room for SpaceX. Read that again. $95 BILLION in forced selling. At the exact same time retail is rushing in to buy the hype. And smart money already started moving first. Hedge funds were dumping big tech before the IPO even opened. That is not a coincidence. That is liquidity leaving the room. Now let me be very clear: SpaceX is not a bad company. It might be one of the most important companies ever built. But the best company and the best trade are NOT the same thing. The market doesn’t care about the mission. It cares about: • Liquidity • Positioning • Forced buyers • Forced sellers • Math And the math looks almost identical to every major top of the last 100 years. SpaceX might not mark the exact top. But history is screaming that we are very close to one. Most people will celebrate. Smart money will exit. Retail will realize it too late. Keep in mind: I’ve called every major market top and bottom for over 10 YEARS. I was one of the only people who called the top in October, and I’ll do it again. That’s literally my job. If you still haven’t followed me, you’ll regret it.

🚨 THE BIGGEST IPO IN HISTORY HAS ONE UGLY THING IN COMMON WITH EVERY MARKET TOP This is not a theory. It happened for 100 YEARS. Goldman Sachs in 1928. Intel in 1971. AT&T in 2000. Every one looked like the opportunity of a lifetime. Every one came near a major market top. Every one was followed by a brutal correction. Funny how the biggest “once-in-a-generation” IPOs always show up when the market is already overheated. Probably nothing. Now look at the real problem nobody wants to talk about: A $2 TRILLION listing needs buyers. Buyers need cash. But cash on the sidelines is already sitting near historic lows. So where does the money actually come from? It doesn’t appear out of nowhere. It comes from selling what funds already own. That means: • Big tech gets sold • Indexes get rebalanced • Liquidity gets drained • Retail becomes the exit JPMorgan estimates passive funds may need to dump around $95 BILLION of the biggest tech stocks just to make room for SpaceX. Read that again. $95 BILLION in forced selling. At the exact same time retail is rushing in to buy the hype. And smart money already started moving first. Hedge funds were dumping big tech before the IPO even opened. That is not a coincidence. That is liquidity leaving the room. Now let me be very clear: SpaceX is not a bad company. It might be one of the most important companies ever built. But the best company and the best trade are NOT the same thing. The market doesn’t care about the mission. It cares about: • Liquidity • Positioning • Forced buyers • Forced sellers • Math And the math looks almost identical to every major top of the last 100 years. SpaceX might not mark the exact top. But history is screaming that we are very close to one. Most people will celebrate. Smart money will exit. Retail will realize it too late. Keep in mind: I’ve called every major market top and bottom for over 10 YEARS. I was one of the only people who called the top in October, and I’ll do it again. That’s literally my job. If you still haven’t followed me, you’ll regret it.

DANNY

59,469 просмотров • 1 месяц назад