Luke Belmar is the Founder of Capital Club and a Social Media Influencer averaging 300M views a month.
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- How to invest like the top 0.1%
- Luke Belmar’s Crypto Alpha
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- Women's role in a man's life
- Why University is a Scam!
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🕒 Timestamps for Quick Navigation:
00:00 Luke Belmar
02:26 Why 2024 is The Year of Abundance
04:35 Wisdom of Naval Ravikant
05:43 Power Of Leverage
14:48 Having nothing to lose
20:01 Power of Daily Compounding
42:03 Education System Matrix
52:55 Becoming Your Best Self
01:00:41 Pharmaceutical Industry Matrix
01:08:48 Invest Like the Top 0.1 Percent
01:18:42 Crypto Alpha Calls
01:23:44 Pudgy Penguins and Luca Netz
01:31:25 The Fire in the Belly!
01:37:32 Role of Women in a Man's Success
01:46:02 "Get Rid of Things That Are of No Use"
01:51:00 Learning from Mistakes
That's why I call individuals nowadays no longer peasants they're Fiat slaves you're slave to something that was created imaginarily by another person putting a little dollar sign carot in front of you by the age of 65 you'll be able to retire and you'll be happy but
Give me 40 years of your life it's Luke Belmar a 28-year-old entrepreneur investor and internet personality who took the Internet by storm with his success in digital advertising eCommerce and investing in crypto and nfts what e-commerce taught me was a few foundational skills one is that marketing and distribution are more
Important than the product if you have a great product but nobody sees it you're [ __ ] number two sales if you want to make money you have to sell why are you so bullish on pudgy Penguins I'm an equity shareholder in pudgy it was not an investment in the project it was me
Betting on LCA do you think University is a scammer absolutely imagine being in a scenario where I'm a business and I've convinced my entire population that in order to get a job you have to go through me now you have all these [ __ ] that have more degrees in
A thermostat and have no real experience if you can adapt your mindset to understand that money is a lagging indicator of success the money that you get today isn't because you did something today the moment you stop doing those things then the future gets corrupted how can someone become a
Contrarian investor develop your own investing thesis understanding that investing isn't gambling when you don't overspend and you don't operate out of a place of greed or operate out of a place of need you can start making better value based decisions let's talk about investing we have like monad and different
Projects that are in that ecosystem they're absolutely going to Skyrocket I see monad going to like 30 to $50 billion valuation is there another quipt project or community that you're super bullish on my answer to that is okay do you want to tell people how we got here today it's a really cool
It's a really interesting story it's an interesting story so long story short you hit me up in the DMS and you're like yo let's chop it up on my podcast I'd seen some of your Clips you'd had Luca which is one of my business partners uh
On here I saw that you had some some dope people and I was like yeah but then you also had some people had had me you know talked a little bit of [ __ ] about me so I'm like should I give this guy the time of day and then you're like bro
No it wasn't it's out of context don't take it too seriously I'm like all right sounds good let's let's chop it up so here we are today bro yeah also I'm super excited to have you man so maybe as a start we are still in January 2024
Yes it's the first month of the year and uh you wrote to your followers 2024 is about getting wealthy in finance Health mindset relationships this is the year of abundance in all area of Life do you think it's possible to master all of these at the same time
Especially when you haven't made it yet Define made it I Define made it simply by being alive and by believing that you can become better by having hope I think that that's the first step I think if you just have the perspective that you have opportunity to develop I
Think that it's possible you know because when you begin to think about wealth by definition you know you have this concept people like oh this is a wealthy man or this is a wealthy family but they're only talking about money and wealth by definition isn't money alone
It's abundance so what are the areas of your life that you're supposed to figure out or continue developing in order to develop this wealthy well-rounded life and this idea of well are you going to always get to the place of Mastery no right there's always somebody that's
Going to have more money there's always going to be somebody that's more ripped there's always going to be somebody that has a better looking girl it's just inevitable that there's always somebody that's going to have potentially some perspectives or some aspects of their life that are better than yours but I
Think having that focus of not being one-dimensional of being like because you you were telling me you know hey dude I was in business I traveled the world lived in all these super mega metropolis and then I went back home and my my health was [ __ ] so it's like
Were you wealthy you had all these experience all these things but you had a foundational thing that wasn't in check so I think just having the mental kind of parameters of understanding that you don't have to neglect your health in order to make money you don't have to
Not talk to your mom or your parents for 2 years because you're hustling and grinding in the business no there's a place of balance and that's where I would Define wealth that's interesting because I mean if we where we are today we might have come across a podcast that
Naval ravikant released in 2019 or 18 which is uh the one with Joe so basically he did one kind of like on his own based on all his tweets which is um how to get rich without getting lucky without getting lucky right exactly and then he went on Joe and then because and
That's how I discovered him right through Joe and then I went to this first podcast which is three hours and a half and one of the key points there is money is not going to make you happy but it's going to help you get to a kind
Of stage of life where you can then focus on what really matters and so what he advises is you should kind of make yourself almost miserable to make money as quickly as possible to then get on to the real things in life but it's not really what you're saying well I I I
Wouldn't say misery but I would say how can I make the most amount of money expending the least amount of time because time is the valuable asset that allows you to then explore other things and if you're every single day expending 10 12 hours just working to make money
Then you're neglecting every potential other area of life that is beneficial you know I was doing some research as to how uh the feudal agees kind of operated and The Peasants and the feudal Lords and the Kings and you begin to look at the work schedule of the peasants these
[ __ ] only worked 150 days out of the year they didn't work 300 days out of the year like Society teaches us today so you have the peasants the working class by definition peasant means just working class back in the day only working half of the year so here we
Are as Fiat slaves working 300 days out of the Year assuming that money is the most important thing when it's all said and done how much money do you actually need in order to live a wealthy highly successful fruitful life not a ton of money you don't have to have a billions
Of dollars to get there what's your answer to that my answer to that is figure out a level of comfort that matches your lifestyle and it depends on everybody right and then don't overspend don't get to the place where you spend because you want to compare yourself to
Others and don't fall the for the Trap of consumerism if you become a consumerist you're always going to have to make money in order to spend but if you're a producer and not a spender then focusing on how can I create things of value in the marketplace that eventually
Allow for opportunity and money to flourish so essentially become a producer and leave below your means which is kind of true freedom because if you leave below your means you don't have to worry you're never going to worry exactly you talked about how do I make as much as possible
By spending as least time as possible what are a few answers to that for example in this podcast again with Naval he talks about leverage right talks about financial leverage human leverage so human capital and then you have obviously the one that's like the best
Today I mean code and media yes I agree so I was actually with meow the co-founder of Jupiter exchange at dinner today and we were talking about what is the single most important uh super weapon that an entrepreneur can have and it's leverage right and money gives you leverage so my
Opinion is some people will value money more than I what are these individuals usually the ones that don't have a lot of money so I can give them money in exchange for their time and in exchange for their energy so these people will help me accomplish my goals and my
Dreams but now like nval says it gets even crazier because now you can have little Bots running around working 247 they don't get tired they don't disobey they don't clock out they don't lie about their time sheet they actually perform and you can backtrack all of
Their effort and all of their work and they can work 2 47 so leverage your money your resources your Connections in order to automate as many areas of life both with people and AI bot Tools in order to get to the next level and this what this is what you're doing 100% yeah
Capital Club now has about 160 employees full-time about 65 of them are media distribution team so I'll create a piece of content like this podcast and it'll probably get I don't know over over the next year 100 million views so I'll distribute that through short form
Content and I have people that do that so instead of being like okay let me go out and create 50 pieces of content I'm just going to create one piece of high value content and then allow other people through paying them to distribute it and utilize your resources their time
Their energy and their attention towards my goal you said 160 people right yeah what's your approach CU for me what I really realized is and it's completely linked to this not of Leverage but also fixed versus variable costs and when I made this change in my businesses it changed everything uh full-time
Employees versus contractors or kind of like remote teams that are hired by the job versus by their time right and so if you do that everything becomes variable and much less risky yes how do you approach because I think it's more of an you're what 28 29 yeah 28 that's like an
Approach that's much more like from our generation whereas for example the first company I built in London like 25 people I wanted because I was in the old mindset the old Swiss mindset so I was like I want Swiss quality which is the freaking most expensive people on Earth
And I want them full-time because I want the pride of saying hey I'm giving a job to these people and participating to their retirement and all that stuff but then you have all these freaking stress you know and it was a Consulting business so it's like the worst type of business unscalable
And then when you made when I started to make the switch I realized man like this is such a no-brainer and then you can apply it to anything right so I I look at it I look at it a little bit different I look at when I pay people or
When I hire people I'm investing into them right so I'm investing into their self-development I'm investing into their progress I'm investing into their education I'm investing into their experience so how foolish would it me would it be of me to build somebody up for two years as a contractor or as
Somebody that a freelancer and then they're going to charge more for their services later on they're going to go work for somebody else or they're going to go build their own stuff I want to create an ecosystem where my people can grow within my organization I it's so
Hard to find top tier talent but if you can find top your talent I want them to come work for me and I want to come come work with me so that means it you sometimes you have to give them the freedom to operate and to create Steve Jobs I think
Said you know the job of the CEO the job of the business owners to recruit to recruit talent and if you find a players just get out of the [ __ ] way and let them operate so when you see Capital Club when you see you know billions of
Views online that's not just Luke it's people that are super super developed helping me accomplish certain goals and dreams so I see it as yeah I have 160 full-time staff members there is a lot of headaches and overheads and things like that but they're all fixed cost and
That's one side two I see it as an investment into them long term and then three I never spend money that I don't have right and that's something that I always kind of Pride my company of is we always underspend so much from what we make so that once again like your
Personal expenses you don't have that oh how can I get to the next paycheck how can get I don't want to live that way I don't want to have to go and raise money or get investors because I can't make it so I scale in proportion to to our
Income to think that a players stay or going to leave and build their own thing once they realiz how much leverage personal leverage they have right depends depends because not everybody that's an a player is an entrepreneur or not everybody that's an a player is a self-starter and not
Everybody that's an a player wants to go out and do their own thing or can take on the risk of going on and you know funding a business building a business or being a CEO or an executive some people are just phenomenal videographers right some people are just phenomenal human resource managers some
People are just phenomenal accountants so I just want to polish them refine them and then give them a value ladder of scalability within my organization eventually that obviously for the high tier individuals leads to shares leads to options in the company but that's just inevitable because the goal isn't
To own a 100% of zero right if you own 100% of something that's not worth anything cool you're the only guy involved but you don't have [ __ ] so sometimes you have to share and that means splitting the piie so that the pi can get bigger I'm all about sharing bro
That's a such a key concept actually and you have often when you start companies you might have like two or three co-founders and then you have this ego at play right who has more and like why would we split equally and you're like man first it's all about not the what
Happened before it's all about what happens in the future and second 33% of like something much bigger is is worth much more than 100% of something much smaller absolutely and and it's also the energy and time thing right so if I have co-found ERS now I have two
Like I have more heads I have more energy more time and that going if they're the right people that's going to accelerate growth and accelerate development accelerate the achievement of your goals a lot faster absolutely so you said you have 160 employees your 28 which is re impressive you've done a
Lot of pretty amazing things in since probably in your 20s right I started I started I started my entrepreneurial journey in e-commerce in 2016 I start started buying my first Bitcoin $588 2015 but it was you know tinkling and playing around but my entrepreneurial swing and actually becoming a proper entrepreneur
2018 where does this hunger and huge fire in the belly come from when you when you're broke brother you have nothing to lose dude I don't want to live a life of regrets I like I said I was I was talking with I was talking with meow
And and I said dude imagine being on your deathbed and cool everybody thinks that you're successful cool everybody thinks that you have a lot of money but you yourself you look at yourself and you're like I could have done more or you know I didn't go for it dude I just don't
Want to deal with that [ __ ] I don't want to be in a situation where I regret the fact that I gave up the gift of life to settle for mediocrity or to settle for less and money like we talked about gives you access to Opportunities so talking about Switzerland for example if
I didn't have money I wouldn't be able to visit zermat I wouldn't be able to visit Geneva I wouldn't be able to visit these incredible beautiful places so I want to experience life and in order to experience the fullness of life I just have to work a lot harder than the
Average individual in order to experience more things absolutely and the the the I don't want to have regrets I mean one of the key things that we're all looking for in our prob in our life right but when you're high achiever since early 20s you you're like
Okay how do I get happy truly happy and we in the beginning we kind of like mistakenly think that it's the money or the businesses or the girls or all this [ __ ] right but then you realize and I think it was a I think it what I think
It was Andrew Tate who was saying that which I don't agree with a lot of what he says but he also talks a lot of truth right and one of these thing was something like when you work really hard on something it's not about the result it's knowing that you're giving your best
Will make you happy right and will make you have no regret and it's much less about the actual result of like was I successful rather than just I gave my best right and if I give my best and I'm in the hustle and actually you see it
Right when you build businesses the best moments are when you're struggling and you're having this goals and when you kind of like reach these big Milestones could be first million or first 10 million or another kind of business goal right you realize [ __ ] that's it like that's that's not like the thing that
Really makes you happy so I think people I think people have like short-term goals and many times they attribute happiness to that achievement of that goal instead of that goal just being another stepping stone to their development and understand that dude Life Is Life is long it's kind of
Infinite it's an infinite game it's it's always you always have to you're going to have to wake up the next day you're going to have to perform you know if you don't exercise you're going to lose your physique if you don't continue taking care of your family if you don't
Continue elevating if you don't continue leveling up what you don't use you lose and that's the thing about life is the people that are unsuccessful think that somehow you achieve one level of success and then you stop yeah and then it's oh sit under a palm tree and chill when
When I'll get million when I get to my first million I change my life which I always say if you would change your life when you reach a certain number you should change your life already now because it means that you're not going to be happy that day that's not going to
Change anything yes and because it's a mindset play bro it's a mindset play and if you can adapt your mindset to understand one very basic principle which is every single day if you were to evaluate your life like like building a house every single day you get to lay
One brick how are you going to lay that brick are you going to lay it with Precision accuracy love care it's your house yeah like why you're going to build it like [ __ ] like why would you build it like [ __ ] it's where you're going to live it's where you're going to
Reside so every day I get to set up a block and not every day I do it right not every day do it well but if you go with the intention of being like hey I'm responsible for my life I'm responsible for my actions the good stuff the bad
Stuff I get to establish and set this this this brick for today and understand tomorrow I'm going to have to set the brick again what the brick that I set up yesterday right in my life to continue building doesn't matter what I do today counts and and I I made a post saying
That that money is a lagging indicator of success yeah I saw that and and money is a lagging indicator of your efforts so the money that you get today isn't because you did something today we're here today not because of what we did today but because of what we did over
The last couple years that led up to this moment and the moment you stop doing those things then the future gets corrupted you don't see it directly that's the thing and in the beginning when you get successful you the first time you can become complacent right we
Talked about that with with Luka on the podcast actually and we probably all made this mistake or I don't know for you but like most of us and then you just there like oh if I just do nothing it continues to freaking rain right it until it doesn't
And then you gets completely [ __ ] and then yeah anyway so that's super interesting one actually I think even Jeff Jeff Bezos talks about that we're building what we're doing today he says in business is going to happen in three years so it's kind of like an extreme
And and it's also it it doesn't just apply to business and to life if I if I'm the captain of a ship and I know the destination where I'm going 99% of the time I won't see the port of destination I won't see it I have to understand that
If I just travel and I do what I'm supposed to do eventually I'm going to get there the captain doesn't say well just because I can't see the port of destination I'm not going to leave I'm just going to stay here and wait no no no with vision right and understanding
And belief and knowing where you want to go you set the trail you set the path and you work towards it every single day you talked about these bricks right that you're kind of setting in a certain way and you grew up in Argentina yes right so we all grw up in different
Places you grew up in Argentina I grew up in Switzerland and the place where you where we live the environment the culture we grow in obviously is going to impact and limit our beliefs yes and our self- beliefs what's acceptable what's not what's possible what's not how does the young
Argentinian Singaporean American or even Swiss teenager or let's say you know early 20 deprogram himself and sort of as you'd say like get out of of the Matrix to set himself up for insane success so first is understanding that you're not what your relig tells you you are you're
Not what your parents tell you you are you're not what your friends tell you you are in fact you're not even what you tell yourself you are because you don't even truly understand your Limitless potential so when you live in a situation whereby you're limited by the opinions and the insecurities and the
Projections of other people what you're doing is you're limiting your potential and your growth for self-development and the first part is understanding that you can become whoever ever you want to become if you want to become successful you will become successful if you want to become rich you will become rich if
You want to become literate you will become literate if you want to become well traveled you will become well traveled but you can't want something and then do another hundred things that are in antithesis or completely opposite to the goal that you want so if I want
To get rich well I'm going to have to pay the price if I want to travel the world I'm going to have to pay the price and most people they want something they wish things but they don't truly want them and then work towards them so know
Where know where you want to go know what you want and then don't want another other 100 things that are completely opposite to the achievement of that goal so you don't have to have a ton of goals establish you know two three goals things that are easily executable and easily achievable you
Don't have to go out and make a million dollars tomorrow no no no relax what is the next book about business and Leadership that you should read how should you be working out and eating and taking care of your health how do you treat your relationship with your mom
And your dad and your siblings well that's going to easily translate into how you treat your business partners so how you do the Small Things is how you do the big things and like I said before you just Master building that Foundation Building those little bricks day by day
And once you zoom back out you'll see the beautiful creation the beautiful artwork that you've built with your life and it'll be a masterpiece for everybody to observe and be like you know this guy lived a great life and maybe to kind of take off like
Of the magic right this person is so successful or this person is so fit there's a process behind everything there's a process behind everything you want to get fit like you can count your Macros and train four or five you know times a week with go with a PT you want
To build wealth there is a process to build wealth there you want to build a business you want to build a personal brand there's a process behind every freaking thing and it's kind of boring once you understand that because you're like man I'm just repeating the same
[ __ ] every day but that's where most people kind of fail because we're all looking for like the thrill and the like you know the thrill of the new thing but actually all these things that we need to do to like get successful in one area or another of life is just based on
Processes the processing and the preparation you know you have to if you want to become a billionaire if you want to become a millionaire you have to develop the philosophies the ideas the habits the work ethic of this type of person of this character in order to them become that type of individual
Abraham Lincoln famously said if I had six hours to cut down a tree I would spend the first five sharpening the axe so it's not about just the hustle it's not just about the grind it's about the preparation it's about the effort it's about the dedication yeah you see the
You see Usain Bolt right on stage with the gold medal you see Michael Phelps on stage with the gold metal but you don't see jumping in the pool for [ __ ] 10 years you don't see having to run sprints in the middle of Jamaica in the
Heat for decades no no no you don't see that but it's easy to criticize you know the people sitting in the red carpet or standing on the red carpet from the [ __ ] carpet of your own home when you have really nothing to do or you haven't accomplished anything so
It's understanding that it's a process understand that there's a lot of sacrifice brother involved in becoming somebody great and it's going to require literally your life force energy to materialize these dreams into reality it's very interesting that we talk about that because I wrote a bunch of things around
That public rewards versus private practice so I think it's today or two days ago uh there was Tony Robbins on a podcast called my first milon podcast which we all know and he talked about the concept of it's what you do in the dark that puts you in the light and then
He gives the example you gave some example he gives the example of Stephan Curry 500 shots a day 3,500 shots a week 180,000 shots a year 2.7 million shots in 15 years of practice out of 16,000 game shots with 3,500 makes is one of the best of all
Time less than one tenth of 1% of his shots are seen in a game can you give some personal examples that show that success all comes down to Obsession sacrifices practicing day in and day out being consistent patient and persistent yes I would probably attribute it at my the beginning of my
Career I would say e-commerce building an e-commerce business has taught me foundational skills that then translate into everything else that you do so people say well I'm going to go do one job like sales or I'm going to go do e-commerce I'm going to go build a
Digital marketing agent to or I'm going to build a data analytics company but what are the skills that you're learning no you're not just building a data analytics company you're learning how to become a CEO you're learning how to become a leader you're learning how to become a well- polished individual
You're learning how to balance a checkbook you're learning how to balance emotions you're Lear learning how to balance your employees emotions so what e-commerce taught me was a few foundational skills one is that marketing and distribution are more important than the product so if you have a great product but nobody sees it
You're [ __ ] it doesn't matter what business you're in it doesn't matter if you're in crypto it doesn't matter if you're in finance if nobody knows what you have to sell nobody's going to see it so one of the essential skills that I learned is I need to learn how to Garner
Manage and distribute my product number one number two sales right if you want to make money you have to sell you have to sell now in order to make money and sell there's three areas that you need to Master number one you need to be the
Best at what you do you don't want to get hired for being cheap you want to get hired for being the best number two is what you do in sales needs to be in high demand you don't want to be selling esimo you know an Eskimo ice people are
Like I can sell anything to to an to anybody yeah yeah but that necessarily doesn't mean that you're going to be able to make a ton of money so what you need to do is needs to be in high demand you need to be the best at what you do
And then finally you need to be Irreplaceable right can you be replaced by AI can you be rep be replaced by somebody else that's a question that needs to be answered so I figured out in sales I need to be the best at what I do
So if I'm selling a product or a service people need to see me as a person of reputable standards I need to be in high demand so what I'm going to be selling needs to be in an evergreen Niche we saw so many you know hypee niches or themes
Come up in crypto over the last couple years all sorts of [ __ ] but they were just fads right it wasn't sustainable because it wasn't in high demand and then finally you need to be like I said the best of what you do in high demand and you need to be Irreplaceable so can
Somebody replace you so when you look at your skill sets you need to ask yourself well what now can AI not replace abely so what what are you building today that I that I that I that AI can't replace I was I was telling recently another another podcast host I
Was uh I had the privilege to ask a couple questions to one of the co-founders of open AI many years ago before I launched Capital Club and he told me I asked him hey should I build an AI company he's like no no don't build an AI company build an AI proof
Company build something that AI will never be able to replace because he's like you're going to go building a AI with who against all the MIT kids stand for kids against all these nerds all these think tanks like you're going to have a very hard time but if you can
Establish a moe as to what is uh something that AI cannot replace like self-development Community personal growth then you have the ability to sell in a way that AI can't replace so marketing distribution and sales are the two kind of beacons and pillars that I've uh established as essential
Necessities for winning in business and on the top on the top of that authenticity for sure bro because a lot of people think that being good at sale is being good at bullshitting right the thing is if you do that you'll get people for the first round but they'll never come back and
You're going to ruin your reputation what I tell what I tell people just to follow that is if you sell something to somebody that they don't need you're not a good salesman you're a con artist so when you sell you need to sell ethically and you need to sell
Understanding that you're there to serve people absolutely basically how can I provide you as much value as possible and that's my problem not ask for anything because you make the assumption that but the smart people they understand like oh man you're giving me something I'll give you something back
Right it's all about providing so much value and doing it you know just I'm not asking you for anything like IDE you in a position where you don't even need you're like oh this is all bonus right and again I mean I don't want to talk about Naval too much but he's talking
About using authenticity to escape competition he's saying basically if you use authenticity you're never going to have anyone that you're competing with because no one can compete with your with yourself right I agree I mean most people compete instead of creating but that's because most people don't want to
Become the best version of themselves they want to become what they perceive as a better version than themselves which is what they see in somebody else be or what somebody else supposed to be when you have the same capabilities you have the same potential you just have to
Work for it extremely extremely hard and what I like about the internet is that the internet uh doesn't take [ __ ] right so now as the Creator economy begins to develop and as you know people spend time online Things become more transparent so people will be able to identify authenticity they'll be able to
Identify truth and then they'll be able to identify bullshitters probably blockchain will help in that because you have all these AI for sure because one of the key problem now is like AI we don't even realize most of us but just for we're in 2024 There Is Us elections this year and
There was uh I think was rul pal saying during the US elections you're going to have crazy arguments with your neighbors your family members people you love just because AI because of AI piece of contents that are C bro that are going to be targeted at you to make you
Go crazy right and one thing where blockchain can really help is to prove whether all these piece of contents are actually true or not the only issue with that bro is when you start playing with the humanization and the digitalization of personal identities so it's like oh
Well now we need to make sure that whoever is on Instagram or whoever is on Twitter is actually a real human so now you have to submit your ID and that's where [ __ ] gets kind of crazy but I look forward to this future bro it's going to
Be [ __ ] wild because now you don't even know who's commenting for all you know Zuckerberg's got all these [ __ ] profiles running 24/7 just blasting comments to cause engagement cause triggers and for all you know it's just a troll Farm yeah it's wild absolutely and it's happening it's
Happening I mean it happens all the time I think there was a there was a an intelligence company out of Israel called project Judas and they had uh 30,000 Twitter accounts and they would kind of control narratives through those Twitter accounts and they're not real people it's just a couple individuals
Now with AI it's going to be superpowered and I agree with you bro it's going to [ __ ] break a lot of people's minds bro it's going to be crazy dude [ __ ] I didn't even think that I didn't even take that into perspective for the election bro it's going to be
Crazy be wild there was already I mean Trump won like thanks to data and social media but it was not like Advanced AI like that so now it's going to be this but on steroids wow bro so we talk about how much you need sacrifices patience consistency
Persistence to make it right when you're starting to build a company the problem is Millennials and genzi they are impatient as [ __ ] because we live in a in a world where we have everything at our fingertips right coffee food dates porn anything we want just at a click of
A button but the really good things in life a career relationship a business good health wealth they all come from daily compounding right of small actions what's your message to our impatient generation today if they want to be truly successful tomorrow be impatient towards the good things be impatient towards doing the
Good things every single day be impatient towards waking up and going to the gym be impatient to get on your sales calls and close those clients be impatient to pick up that book and read instead of being impatient about the results be impatient about the input because you can't control the output you
Can control how many seeds you plant you can't figure out which seed is going to grow and how many how many apples are going to come from that apple tree you can't control that you can't control the day you're going to become a millionaire if you say I'm going to become a
Millionaire in one year good luck [ __ ] because if that year rolls around and you're not a millionaire you're going to feel like [ __ ] you're going to feel unsuccessful but if you're like my success is determined by my input and not my output dude being patient as a [ __ ] getting that
Input grinding understanding that money success is a lagging indicator so hustle do what you have to do the input and then let by natural law which is a principle that applies to the universe right action causes reaction input causes output focus on what you can control being patient about becoming
Great and the rest will play out so essentially what uh Gary V says when he says uh micro speed mcro patients it's exactly that that's very good I'm Swiss in Switzerland we don't talk about money we don't need even know or dare to ask our parents how much how much they
Make really you don't do that no wow that's how much taboo the topic of money is in Switzerland at least might have changed now but I mean I'm not all but like you know I don't know how much my father makes or how much he made like and you don't ask that
Right you talk a lot of about money and there is a lot of hate towards men who preach about making money why do you think openly talking about money and about making money is so important because money is just a tool so I talk about money just like I
Talk about health just like I talk about self-development and picking up a book and learning topics that you enjoy money is just a tool money is just a weapon that you utilize to accomplish your goals but it's essential and most people have no literacy when it comes to money
I was I was doing some research as to how how the Bible was translated into English when John Wickliffe uh you know began uh translating the Bible he was persecuted he was persecuted by the clergy men that would had the Bible in Latin and he was persecuted by the pope
And he was persecuted by by the religious political Powers why because at that time religion was the language of the elite and it's what kept people in slavery it's what kept people in bondage and in fear today now that you know these spiritual texts have been translated and anybody can digest them
The tool of suppression is no longer religion it's Finance so Finance has now become the language of the elite there's a reason the tax code is so complicated there's a reason why they don't teach you money in school there's a reason why these things are complicated and it's
Not because they have to be complicated it's because they're designed to keep you away from understanding that there are valuable parts of life that you need to master so when you understand that language is also correlated to your ability to understand what my goal is to simplify
These Concepts so that people don't fear them and that they can understand them in a very basic way so that they don't have to depend on a tax accountant so that they don't have to depend on somebody to tell them how to make money a banker exactly they're all the they're
All the middlemen they're all the middlemen To God In God We Trust absolutely but go through me [ __ ] that's what they tell you that's a really compelling one because I'm mean the I mean in the banking sector it's if you start to for me like
The the the the journey was since I was probably 21 and 22 when I started the first company I wanted to retire before 30 right whatever that means a certain number so I was like how do I retire before 30 and then we had some employees and we
Had you know a pension because you have to invest in a pension for your employees so I was like how do I with my pension and with other people's pension invest this money to retire as quick as possible and then you start from there to understand how the entire
System is made that every pension it's [ __ ] I mean in the UK you have this self-investment Pension Plan s right I know the government the government invested on your behalf so then you understand the whole thing which is you read you're like okay what how do I start I'm going to start
About reading about Timeless principle of investing there's not that they all say the same right uh the little common sense of investing the obviously the I mean a bunch of these book also Tony Robbins he wrote a really good one which is money Master the game and the
Unshakable and very simple ones after the great financial crisis to help Millennials invest and to make them understand that it's actually not hard it's just made Harder by the ones who need to take a fees right and so you you need the the middleman to God exactly
And and the person that can be the middleman to God will charge you you know in order to get to heaven and when you realize that you don't need a middleman in order to talk to God and you don't need a middleman in order to learn finance and you don't need a
Middleman in order to do anything the middleman gets upset and now the middleman not only controls Finance but they also control the school system because they're the ones that fund the school system and they're the ones that F fund the universities and they're the ones that fund Pharma and they're the
Ones that fund food so now the entire narrative is controlled by this centralized group of people that's why I call individuals nowadays no longer peasants they're Fiat slaves because you're slave to something that was created imaginarily by another person that controls you and is expending your life force energy and putting a little
Dollar sign carrot in front of you dingling and saying by the age of 65 you'll be able to retire and you'll be happy but give me 40 years of your life it's [ __ ] so if I can in some way shape or form kind kind of at least trigger these conversations for people
And be like hm maybe let me maybe let me look at the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 maybe let me figure out why we got off the gold standard and who was actually involved in this process let me figure out why satoshi's Narrative of immutable money is actually compelling and yeah
Maybe I don't have to become a scholar when it comes to finances maybe I don't have to become somebody that actually understands the ins and outs of Everything But the last thing you want to be is ignorant because an ignorant you can get fooled and most people are
Ignorant and what I think sometimes people get upset at is the fact that you're showcasing their ignorance and uh sometimes the truth hurts but I'm willing to offend in order to save a few what do you think is the single biggest limiting factor that prevents most people from taking full control of their
Finance and their future most people blame others most people fear the consequences of being responsible for the good things and the bad things of their life I often tell people Everyone is self-made but only the successful will admit it because the unsuccessful person they're self-made but they won't
Admit it they'll blame somebody else they'll blame the imaginary thumb of the government they'll blame the race they'll blame the color of their skin but they'll never look at themselves and be like what did you not do because everybody's quick to be like oh well I am successful I built this company but
What about when you [ __ ] up what about when you were inferior when you were a loser did you take accountability for those things and most people I think are just not comfortable with assuming that responsibility so creating an ethos where we can be vulnerable creating an
Ethos where it's okay to [ __ ] up where it's okay to fail is going to revolutionize and change through authenticity how people interact and how people talk and what I often tell people is this this fear of failure is induced into us it's not natural if you go to
The school system bro imagine how [ __ ] it is to go to a first grader and give him an f and tell them you're you failed or you know what because you didn't apply this this and this you have to stay back with you know younger kids and you shame them bro that's [ __ ]
Degrading so from the beginning you're conditioned to not try because if you there's a chance that you're going to be penalized and you don't want to be penalized nobody wants to be penalized and then that translates to high school that translates to University that translates to the workplace that
Translates to your interaction and your entire life you just want to play it safe and in that safety it's all elusive because at the end of the day you're going to die so we all end up being in the same situation because we all going
To end up dead so there isn't any safety because we're all going to end up six feet under so if you're going to end up six feet under there's nothing to stress about there's nothing to worry yeah I think it's called equinity no that's it right with the concept of
Like don't look at the tree look at the Forest right take a step back and then realize man why are we even stressing I mean easier said than done right but it's it's it's it's Well it can't even be it can't even be said and it can't be
Done it needs to be felt and the equinity is the calmness of the Soul equinity means the calmness of the Soul so when you like yot Musashi famously said with your spirit as high as Mount Fuji you will see all things clearly and when you can elevate your
Perspective and you can see that what what people are doing what people think about you your your failures and your and your wins they're insignificant you can see nobody cares before that to go through the big failures and realize that nothing happened which most people will not go through because they're
Scared and you're saying that one of the reason or the main reason they're scared is the education system where from Young so early on it's basically black or white right it's failure or success gold star or red marker with an F would you go as far as saying that
Let's go into the education one because it's a very interesting one the education system was created uh by the Rockefeller Foundation under the prian school system which was the idea of creating Factory workking Bots that don't question they don't do anything except obey that's why the school system
Resembles the industrial era you raise your hand in order to use the bathroom there's an assembly line the Bell Rings therefore that's your break that's your queue you have to be operating just within your little Dynamic you can't explore uh you're not supposed to collaborate you're within your little
Area of work this is what you do but it not only resembles the industrial kind of era but it also resembles the prison complex right so you have the fluorescent lights you have the locked rooms you walk in a line you go to the
Yard one hour of the day and you only do it when the bell rings dude can can I can I just when everybody Clips it all you have to do is look at what a cafeteria looks like in the United States school and look at a cafeteria
Prison they look the same so everything is conditioned from from the moment you're young to absolutely create and prune you into being a Fiat slave which we all follow right we even getting out of this mindset of and again my Suicide will be like you don't have
To be an entrepreneur to be like it it's not only about being entrepreneur right you can be a consultant and be happy you can be a you can even be an employee it's not even it's not even about that it's it's about understanding that what you've been conditioned to believe is a
[ __ ] what you've been conditioned to to feel about reality what you've been conditioned to understand is true is not true and that the systems the beliefs that you've been given are not yours and that you're not bound and limited to these things in order to become an individual that achieves greatness
Greatness isn't what Luke Belmar tells you greatness is Success isn't what Luke Belmar tells you success is what is your Symphony of success when you hear success right what does that mean to you what does that look like for you it looks different for you it looks
Different for me but pursue that path most people know hey I want to pursue something I want to become somebody but then because of the fear of failure the fear of judgment the fear of insecurities and shame on all these [ __ ] online that talk [ __ ] because the last thing you want to be
Doing is criticizing and insulting somebody for trying absolutely when when when we're all just trying to make it so why are you trying to hold the brother down you know what I mean what about czy what about your parents because obviously your par I mean I'm saying
When I say your I mean like people's parents right my belief is that most parents only even if they don't know how to communicate it they truly love their kids and they want the best for their kids right but just because they want what's best for them they don't know
What is best right just because somebody loves you doesn't necessarily mean they know what's best for you and what I always tell people people is when with your parents people that have invested their life force energy into nurturing and raising you especially if they love you if they don't love you and they
Treat you like [ __ ] [ __ ] them right that's my point of view but if they've actually empowered you they've worked hard to help you elevate they want to see what's best for you prove them wrong right if they don't want to see you elevate prove them wrong with your
Actions your your parents aren't going to be upset if they see you waking up early if they see you pursuing your dreams if they see you being productive if you're not doing anything anything you're just playing fortnite all day being a lazy piece of [ __ ] they're going
To go be they're going to start questioning what what is this person doing with their life and rightfully so but I think when parents also understand and they a lot of them do that you're actually being productive and you're putting forth a plan towards success a
Lot of them will support it yeah because ultimately they just want you to be happy and they'll feel it and they'll see it if you're happy in in whatever you're trying and you have to sell them on it it goes back to what we talked about you have to sell them just like
You have to sell your girl staying with you just like you have to sell your customers on on hanging around you have to sell sometimes your parents on them allowing you and blessing you to pursue different areas of life and worst case if they still don't want it there is
Still the possibility of saying hey I'll find a whatever [ __ ] job or just to not depend on you financially anymore so I can do my own thing and you don't have a say anymore right you know you know what's funny it was uh it was the Thanksgiving of
2017 and I was remember in 2017 I think everybody was talking about crypto or Bitcoin and it went up and then it tanked or some [ __ ] uh I think that was that that's where like the entire culture of hey during Thanksgiving everybody talks about crypto and everybody tells their Grandma to buy I
Think it came from the 2017 bull run but we were going around the table and and my mother asked me uh she said what are you grateful for right my my my mother always asked that during Thanksgiving what are you thankful for and I said I'm thankful for Bitcoin and they laughed at
Me right they scoffed me but last week I sent my my mother a Bitcoin right and she no longer cares about whether she scoffed me or whether she thought Bitcoin or my gratitude towards it was a good thing or that I'm being thankful for it she's just happy now
That I'm successful and now she gets to partake in that success so sometimes you have to eat some [ __ ] sometimes you have to understand that your vision is your vision and it was given to you it wasn't given to your parents so you don't need their validation you don't need their
Approval but if you're still under their household and you still you know want their blessing then prove them wrong through your actions and be diplomatic through a process of selling them into your vision through action dedication and respect applies again this applies a lot to actually sales in business right yes
Because let's say your clients are big corporations so there's a lot of politics in there sometimes you know exactly what they need but if you tell them what they need they'll tell you to [ __ ] off yes so you will sell what they want to hear and
Once you got the project then you come and you say forget all the [ __ ] that I told you now we're going to do the real deal right and it's always it's it's sales it's just sales like everything is sales it's true that's crazy and if you
Can't if you can't sell your mama online and you start an Ecom store then how you going to sell anybody I'm giving you a million dollar check to go start a business or you GNA how are you going to go sell something that's high tick or
How are you going to sell anybody on anything else everything starts in the basics right everything starts in the beginning and if you can be diplomatic with with your family and bring them on to your vision so be it but at the at the same time the path of success and
The path of Entrepreneurship and the path of greatness is lonely and you have to be willing to be alone in the process to getting to the top and I realized in my life and my Pursuit my Pursuit my main perspective in life wasn't to become successful my perspective of life
Has become to pursue truth and when I T told God hey I will sacrific my family my relationships even my life for the pursuit of truth then that commitment and that dedication carried me through any insecurities any doubt any loneliness and eventually all these things played out
Well so you would say that you're still Lonely No often I am I'm I I can I can be alone and not be lonely because I'm with myself how do you get to that stage because for me spend spend a lot of when you're in the car turn off that
[ __ ] radio be in your thoughts ask yourself why is it that you do what you do ask yourself why do you wake up in the morning and do what you do why is it that you pursue the goals and the dreams that you pursue have these conversations be comfortable in your own
Skin if you're uncomfortable ask yourself why is it that you're experiencing these things ask why is it that you are in a situation where uh where you where you don't like to be by yourself because if you are with yourself it doesn't mean you have to lonely you don't need other people
Because when you're on your deathbed boot nobody's going to be there it's just you yourself figuring out did I live a successful life did I do what I say I was going to do you can't point fingers you can't say oh because this person said this or this person said
That no no no no no you're fully accountable for your life and when it's all said and done it's all up to you so why not live that way what do you do concretely with that do you meditate do pray I spend a lot of time just thinking so
You have like in your agenda or calendar which is probably crazy full no it's you have some it's empty you have like so empty bro there's like nothing on my calendar because that that was like uh that was like my perspective like I just have like my regular calls for the week
Which is like my regular calls but besides that as the creative in the business I can't have a schedule abut okay I need to be able to create an environment where I can just flow and it's not for everybody but in my space it's just like empty schedule and just
Spend as much time thinking as much time in my thoughts and as much time as possible questioning my actions so that I understand why I'm actually doing what I'm doing you talked about pursuing truth and thinking basically back to what you've done you you went to college
No briefly dropped out dropped out right I want to I went to multiple universities tast tested different things one quarter here one quarter there but it never suited me uh because the teachers were kind of losers and I and I sense that from from from the
Get-go I'll tell you bro I I had two teachers two teachers convinced me that school was [ __ ] my first one was a Communications teacher didn't know how to [ __ ] talk so I like how's this person going to teach me communication and then the second one was an and at
The second University an international business professor that had never been overseas so I'm like how are you going to teach me how to be how to become an international entrepreneur you're talking about macroeconomics microeconomics but are you telling me about culture are you telling me about how to interact with with Chinese people
When I actually go to China and how how to broker a deal you can't learn that unless you're there so I was like [ __ ] this I got to go learn this actually getting the trenches yeah compete I mean for me I was kind of also the the
[ __ ] in the in I I completed the whole like Bachelor but I was always thinking especially when I did my masters I I did TW inter internship three month each in between bachelor and master I go to my master and I realize that I have more work experience after
Six month of freaking internship than the PHD professor in front and we had an entrepreneurship class 14 sessions and at the very end of this entrepreneurship class 14th session she she's like hey anyone has question and I'm like she had done a PhD in entrepreneurship never build a business
And she was an entrepreneur professor I'm like do you really believe we can teach entrepreneurship like and same I always thought man like so [ __ ] bro like I I don't disrespect you maybe because of my Swiss values but I'm like how can you teach me something when you've never
Freaking done it before yes right and if you think about it the education system is completely outdated today right yes and so there is a I mean different takes on that do do you think University is a scam absolutely because it's a business right University is a business
So in certain countries you have public university but somebody's paying for it maybe it's the government but somebody's paying for it in the US University is expensive as [ __ ] imagine being in a scenario where I'm a business right and I have convinced my entire population right
That in order to get a job you have to go through me once again it's the middleman to the job to the job to the workforce it's the middleman so now you're like well I can't develop skills I need a degree you have all these [ __ ] that have more degrees
Than a thermostat and have no real experience so then they go and you hire all these super intelligent dudes quote unquote but have no values they have no self-esteem because they haven't actually accomplished anything not only that they're super inexperienced and they're not even worth having around they're they're entitled they're
Arrogant that's true they think that because you took a couple tests in school that you can bro the marketplace will [ __ ] you up dude actually because you're being told at University you are the leaders of Tomorrow you are the leaders of tomorrow and then you end up
With so many people with papers right with University papers that we have this thing called academic inflation where you've gone through all these studies you might have taken a loan and then it's hard to find a job and if you find a job the job is going to pay you like
[ __ ] no one will give a [ __ ] talk about you right so yeah it's true like I mean I would also argue that when you start your first company especially if you're young like no one gives a [ __ ] either right and it's hard but but why why and it
Depends right like you have you have certain things that are that are that are worth learning but here's the thing even bro even medicine let me talk to you about this medicine [ __ ] sometimes I would go into these lecture halls I went to I went to this veterinary school once
To kind of have an understanding as to their nutrition cuz I was very curious as to who ran the nutrition classes and I figured out that Purina right the food the dog food company which is basically poison for animals they were sponsoring all of the University's food supply in
Exchange for running their nutrition class so they're conditioning all the doctors to say hey if you're going to sell food to your dog make sure it's our brand so they're being brainwashed into one feeling like they're sources of authority two not realizing that information is tailored and curated by
The person that is funding that University and three just look at the statistics there's a reason why the second or third leading cause in the United States of mortality is medical malpractice it's doctors not knowing what they're doing and that's not even getting into covid which would be which would
Probably be like a three-hour podcast on its own but link to the oh but one second going back to the go going back to the the medicine with the the veterinary uh um nutrition class that I snuck into the Purina uh Professor told there was I think about 250 Veterinary students all white
Jackets proud of their jobs recite the following animals don't need new uh food they need new nutrients and our food gives them nutrients and they told them chant this chant this so now you have all these Highly Educated kids kids being told what is true what is not true
And once again the source is controlled by the few it's so [ __ ] yeah yeah and like I mean we talked about it before but I got massively [ __ ] by the Yeah pharmaceutical industry and uh it's basically just I mean I was 23 starting to like lose a bit of hair you know very
Entrepreneurial so problem solution I'm building my first company I don't have time for this [ __ ] right ah there's this advertisement everywhere about like these pills that you can take that's just going to make you thousands of success stories probably works like I can trust you know it's been it's Pharma
Industry proven it's the farma industry the studies are the studies are legit I mean actually it works right but you go to this far these centers and then you have this woman with white clothes right and you're like 22 I'll trust them like they're doctors and then they sell you
These freaking pills which for me like completely destroyed me like completely had like cognitive impairment visual problem crazy anxiety crazy depression I became suicidal it was [ __ ] horrible like and I'm me an amazing learning because then as I said before like how do you get out of that when the
Entire first Industries kind of like rigged against you because you're just trying to sell recuring Revenue right pharmaceutical is just that it's how do I hug people Forever on pills whether anti-depressant sleeping pills hair loss pills control birth control absolutely crazy crazy [ __ ] with the birth control
What's your take on birth control I mean and a woman who tell you for example in Asia women will are very against that and I always tell them I completely understand you because my experience with these pills is what I the reason I got [ __ ] is because it
Acts on your hormones right right and so if you think like logically the birth control is actually acting on your hormones so like I would never ask you to take this [ __ ] because it can only be bad I even heard some story where there were women who would get married to
Someone uh when they're on the peel right and because the peel is acting on their hormone so they're attracted to a certain type of men but the day they're off the peill to get kids they it's insane dude it's insane yeah but hey hey hey your little 13-year-old daughter has acne let's put
Her on birth control to regulate her emotions and regulate her hormones and regulate her mood and now you put 100 million women in the United States on birth control and now what happens it's usually a pill which means what 90% plus of it doesn't get digested
It goes to your urine that estrogen goes into the water now you have now you have now you have 100 million women urinating highly estrogen urine into the water supply and water is just a recycled commodity but the treatment plants they don't treat for estrogen neither do they
Treat for testosterone so now you have all these feminized men drinking this tap water and you're asking why Alex Jones is realizing that the frogs are gay and it all comes down to the fact that it's a big chemical warfare through the water and through the monthly recurring revenue of human
Beings it's so insane dude you tweeted the i l a lot but it makes so much sense we're drinking bottle water right you said top water is for NPCs no top water no porn no devil music can you elaborate I mean the there the three things that attack your mind right
So you're going to be attacked your mind through your eyes because it scars your memory you're going to be attacked through the vibrational frequencies of music so the the the the the messages that are being propagated and then finally through the chemical warfare that attacks your mind so calcifying
Your pineal gland we can talk about vaccinations crossing the blood brain brain barrier and adding heavy metal toxicity to your brain everything is designed to impair your ability to think impair your ability to reason and impair your ability to develop cognitive thought that actually questions the system that's why that's why that's why
People are just walking around like NPCs they're walking around by default they're walking around slow and then sometimes I don't judge them you know it's like okay you're just so intoxicated with porn it's [ __ ] up your brain frying your brain you're so intoxicated uh with tap water and
Fluoridation I completely get it and now you're adding all this demonic super controlled narrative music that is now conditioning to [ __ ] [ __ ] take drugs and hoe around because that just happen to be the cool narrative so no devil music no porn and no tap water to me are
The essentials of living a very good clean healthy life do you think there is a an actual agenda be behind all of that or do you think that because we live in um world where profits at any at any cost companies make decisions without kind of even understand understanding no
Consequences all controlled all controlled even look at the example of for example you look at these big companies like PornHub they were doing like secret like spy interviews with with some of the some of the executives and for example they would every now and then on the Main feed or however these
Things work they would add a transgender video just simply to add that in case you know people want to test or experience a new thing so they're controlling even sexuality at that narrative water well water and food have always been utilized to control people whether it's by limiting the water supply or by
Poisoning the water supply so if you can dump people down to control them why wouldn't you and you begin to realize we have all the shootings we have all the initiations to gangs we have the murders uh we have families that are being broken apart because of people that
Cheat where are they getting their source of information who are they archons who are their role models musicians celebrities celebrities are some of the most useful [ __ ] in the entire planet but they're being used as puppets for the narrative so one of the ways to get out
Of all of that is one way or what you would say freedom of thought bro freedom of thoughts asking yourself why is it that you're doing what you're doing questioning everything dude you have to question everything even if it's uncomfortable why am I listening to this
Music what out of all the songs in the world that I could pick why am I listening to [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] hoes like out of everything if I could drink clean water why do I choose to drink the tap water that the government is telling me
Is healthy so you can look at this this commercial of uh the mayor of New York City drinking tap water and he's like New York City has some of the best tap water in the world and he runs it like an ad or a commercial I'm like dude this
So weird so [ __ ] and then you look at the music industry and a lot of artist and record companies they actually have contracts with prison complexes because most prisons are private companies that actually monetize uh and they have quotas of how many inmates they're supposed to have so
Now you're pushing gang music now you're pushing violent music and all these things have real world consequences that are just filling up the prison that's why America is supposed to be the land of the free but we have 2.5 million people in prison that's not normal one of the things that really worth
Questioning the fat system C obviously a crypto podcast I mean very crypto Focus so we have to talk about that but before talking about crypto more generally one of the ways that people who don't like crypto can kind of escape the fat system is I mean not really the fat system but
At least their 9 to5 and the rat race is investing right and I saw you publicly um said you were investing in about 10% of your net worth in meta around October 2022 so near the bottom yeah basically which obviously in hindsight it's the bottom but you know
Crazy high here every time there's a market crash or we think oh maybe it's 2001 happening all over again like the mega bubble everything going down 90% it's the end of the word so you did that today the S&P 500 is is about near alltime High NASDAQ not
Too far meta alltime High meta alltime high so your call was definitely the right one and for me the really interesting Fe important concept for people to understand and crypto will come into that but it's the concept of being a contrarian investor which is the most important
Concept in investing right if you want to make money obviously it's easier said than done how can someone become a contrarian investor develop your own investing thesis and understanding that investing isn't gambling so when I bought meta at 8090 $100 that was I average within that
Price range I wanted those prices I knew that it was a fair value for the the company so I said okay I'm willing to buy it at this price it's not because I'm a genius but I looked at the fact that meta was at 2016 prices they're not the company that they were
In 2016 so why wouldn't I pick up a [ __ ] ton of meta stock I'm looking at msrt I'm like okay micro strategy is absolutely going to Skyrocket because this guy is going to buy we're talking about Michael sailor he's gonna he's all in on bitcoin and we know that Bitcoin
Is going to go to alltime highs Maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but eventually so all you're basically buying is a leverag play right there and then you look at Carlo Salas who's one of the richest guys from Mexico and he said he was asked where where's your
Liquidity right now he said not he said micro strategy he said Bitcoin so I said who am I to oppose this guy's thoughts that was my thesis for there and now my next thesis which is going to play true eventually is PayPal PayPal is at a 2017 price point they generate a billion
Dollars net uh every single year they one of one of every four e-commerce companies uh processes through PayPal and it's still absolutely a behemoth but it's at 2017 2016 prices so why wouldn't I pick it up the risk reward ratio just happens to be so much higher so you know in 20
2023 I only made 11 Investments I only made 11 trades I don't trade like a like a Savage I'm not out here on the charts every single day I want to make few High sizable bets that have longterm plays attached to it so I don't want to be day
Trading because everybody knows that day Traders lose absolutely everybody knows this and once again we talk about the productivity the lagging indicator I'm willing to sit on a position 1 2 3 4 10 years for one very simple Factor swing trades yeah for one very simple factor I
Don't need the money yeah right so when you don't overspend and you don't operate out of a place of greed or operate out of a place of need you can start making better value based decisions and once again I once again I could have picked any stock but it was
Something that I'm familiar with I'm familiar with meta I'm familiar with Shopify why because I come from e-commerce so Q Q4 is rolling around I know everybody's spending money on Facebook ads so I know that q1 reporting about Q4 is going to be absolutely phenomenal they're going to crush their their
Reports and they did because they did every single year prior so why wouldn't they do it this year and it happened Shopify took off PayPal took off PayPal didn't take off Shopify took off meta took off M Microsoft took off I made a massive $4 million purchase of uh
Microsoft uh stock the same day that Microsoft announced a 10 billion doll investment to open AI I said well I can't invest in open AI but 10 billion is a lot of [ __ ] money so they're not just paying for whatever it is that they're investing in they're probably investing in infrastructure
Teams uh uh scalability operations so I was like this is a very good proxy right for me to invest into open AI because they technically own it now and once again mic strategy or excuse me Microsoft uh passed Apple for a couple days as the most valued company in the
World and that V reversal was absolutely Savage and what's really interesting is it's not rocket science and we talked about that the other day I was with Alex vanvik here for two hours and we talked about it was more applied to crypto investing but essentially being a good investor is
You rely on a few pretty simple juristic which is hey we're back to the same price as a few years ago but probably like they've been doing a lot of work so they're probably much more advanced so it's a good opportunity and then as you said if you are experience or an expert
In a certain industry you obviously because you spend that much time going to have conviction and once you have the simple Uris coupled with your conviction then it makes the whole thing much easier yes and that's why for us for both of us Bitcoin and crypto is
Such a no-brainer right it's hey look I mean it was more like a year is ago like oh man it went back below previous alltime high or like even like you know the alltime high of 2017 we went below that you're like what the [ __ ] or like a
$900 a $900 e e exactly you're like this is crazy so it's it's it's just yeah it's basically that it's some simple juristic and um and and the conviction the conviction is the most important thing and again and and and not just that but it's understanding that first
Of all you're not always going to catch the bottom and you're not always going to sell the top and I don't make my I don't work or invest in order to pay for my bills right I invest to multiply my money I have businesses I'm making money
In the real world that I get to deploy so if my investment goes down 10% 20% 30% I can stomach the draw down I can stomach certain losses just for the simple fact that I don't depend on trading in order to pay the bills and if
You're going to trade out of a place of desperation you're always going to get [ __ ] yeah absolutely absolutely so you said you're doing this sort of swing trade right one two three years in the crypto context probably is going to be like a year and a half two years when
Trade and that's a really interesting one because you said I think it was on a podcast I saw you said I bought crypto I made my money I sold right which sounds so simplistic but most people in crypto in their first cycle they make shitload of money and
Then they round trip everything and they get wrecked right yeah and so you have this like very simplistic almost cold rational approach to crypto instead of throwing the traditional you know we all going to make it hle and then you get [ __ ] can you tell us more about your
Approach how you approach the crypto Cycles to minimize the chances of round trip pick round tripping all the money you made and get wrecked well I got roundt tripped in 2017 right so I did a I did get there we'll get there I did
160 or 180x and I lost it all and at the top I was out here pulling loans I I I went Savage right and I did it the wrong way and I was like I'm not doing this again but crypto is going to come back
So what do I have to do I just have to have more money in order to deploy it so uh I bought ethereum during the co crash it just made complete sense I bought Bitcoin during the co crash and then I started playing because I was in
Involved in Def summer of 2019 I said bro defi is going to go crazy because I was part of the eth Ico or the the icos in on the ethereum chain in 2017 where basically you had the metamask and you would have to send eth to an address and
You would get their tokens in return that was kind of how icos worked so when you know smart contracts started rolling out defi started rolling out I like whoa I'm G to pay attention to this thing and then obviously I just happened to be on in clubhouse when CZ was talking about
Pancake Swap and the bance smart and how he wased to compete with with ethereum and then this [ __ ] had beef with uh with the founder of Unis Swap and I'm like bro when cz's got beef with somebody he's going to try and take them down and what vehicle was the
Competition to Unis swap pancake swap so I just made a very big purchase of pancake swap purchased 1% of the supply and it worked well and so you're that's interesting the strategy because a lot of people they think I can put like a th000 bucks in crypto and make it a THX
Or I'll put like 500 or 100 bucks in like 50 different crypto and I'll become rich right but this never works the strategy is more yours and it was the same with me you round trip once then you're like I need more cash so I need
To build a business or have a job to get this cash to then once I have the right conviction and the right timing luck is when preparation meets opportunity right yes I'm going to invest at that moment and then like I'm going to wait two years and make shitload of
Money but because I invested a good amount of money right it's probably a better solution ra rather than what most people think which is oh I'm just going to make you know become millionaire overnight with like a random meme coin I mean obviously you can make a lot of money with meme coins
But like it's there's a few really huge success stories but there is Thousands that are not talked about which is people who lost everything whereas like you can have a more rational approach which is hey how do I have a business generating cash and I reinvest that it's traditional investing applied to crypto
Except it's kind of like on steroids right yes and in in my in in my view it's you know the first Bull Run you get kind of round tripped the second one you're following the calls on Twitter but you're a little bit more clever uh
And then my third one which is the one that we're coming into right now I I'm not even going to like looking at the charts trading view looking at coin GetGo I'm not even doing that now I'm building right absolutely so that's so you realize that that the upper side and
The leverage in reducing your risk is in being involved in the ecosystem so I went from being a gambler to being somebody that was like Hey like I can invest in this I got some money I'm doing well to now being like okay but the infinite upside is to actually be
Involved in the ecosystem be involved with the projects and I think that that's like the natural progression of a crypto Journey absolutely and it bro but here's the thing the thing I love about crypto is that the the the upside is so good for the amount of effort and work
That people put in because the highest the lever unbelievable dude you could you could be a VA on a Discord server and be absolutely loving your job making money getting Alpha getting calls getting integrated with communities getting exposed to new projects the upside is so great when the time is right Now's the
Time now the time is right I've been telling people dude get into the crypto space start building get involved meet Founders uh understand the future Trends so a couple of the future Trends are uh the enhancement of the ethereum virtual machine so basically building layer ones on top of ethereum because now ethereum
Is kind of Monolithic it's your it's kind of like your settlement layer so you have like monad and different projects that are in that ecosystem they're absolutely going to Skyrock ET I see monad going to like 30 to 50 billion valuation it's going to be absolutely nutty prediction but
That'll happen think about the project it's STP tier why the founders bro they understand what people want in crypto people want high frequency trading with no fees with low fees so you they created an ecosystem where they can bundle all of that and then deploy it to
Your settlement layer and now instead of having everybody pay what [ __ ] $100 worth of in order to have a transaction go through now you create an experience that is actually nice that's why salana has become so popular it's because it allows highfrequency trading and one of the founders of salana was very specific
He said we built this product specifically for people that want to trade you know $5 on a specific trade or $2 or $10 you can't do that on ethereum that's why binance smart chain became popular but binance smart chain is centralized now binance has a like this government oversight so that's kind of
Dwindling uh be the bud is no really no longer a thing so now you have salana taking over salana is absolutely crushing not only because of salana but because they've done really good at Building Products around it like the Phantom wallet which is the best wallet that exists right now you have Jupiter
Exchange which is kind of like your ability to to trade in the best def format possible so now you see a lot of people that are building making crypto relevant to what people actually want the reason Robin Hood was dope was because you could hop in there on your phone and in
10 minutes buy a stop absolutely user experience which in crypto is so bad but but it's getting better it's getting better getting good on Solana you said you had dinner with the the founder of uh yeah Jupiter right what do you think of the exchange
Do you think it's are going to take over Unis swap do you think it's just for other kind of people yeah Jupiter exchange is going to absolutely demolished I was talking with him about his future plans and I can't go into it but the vision is beyond just your
Traditional hey I'm going to be out here buying and selling shitcoins the dude wants to introduce foreign exchange remittance he wants to basically put all tokenized assets on on and inside through the Jupiter exchange uh nfts decks it's going to be a behemoth uni swap will not be able to compete no
Chance there's another project we have to talk about tell me you wrote the Ecom kids came into crypto and took over web 3 in one year stopped fading the p wiins we I mean obviously I had luuka on the podcast I also had James W who is
One of the key investor doing the bar Market in the equity of py penguin we had Alex who is an advisor Alex fic the founder of CE of nanson who an advisor Mega pgy penguin fan I'm a big fan you also said there's no second best regarding there's no second best
And when you meet the dude like you I mean it's so obious right and also because most projects are [ __ ] there's nothing behind it so if there's one who is like hey let's build something let's create actual Revenue that is not crypto geek related but it's
Real word related it's going to make a massive difference you and Luca share similar backgrounds also kind of a difficult childhood Drop Shipping Ecom crypto and you live in the same place Miami I live in Puerto Rico he told me he he told me
Go to he he told me to go to Miami but he was one of the first guys to move to Miami before it was cool I just decided to go a little bit more south for tax purposes why you so bu bullish on pudy Penguins I mean I'm an equity
Shareholder in pudy uh it was not an investment in the project it was me betting on Luca so Luca used to run a lot of e-commerce for a lot of top tier influencers out in LA and he was you know making multiple six figures every
Single day and I was able to meet a couple of the influencers that he was interacting with talk about their e-commerce and eventually connected with Luca we had a in in 2019 we had the defi summer and then I remember in 20120 we were sitting in the Ritz Carlton and we
Were we didn't know anything about uni swap right so we're out here figuring out Defi shitcoins and we've been in the crypto Journey since the beginning it was February of 2021 I believe my dates kind of get confused at this point it's been so long uh when pancake swap first hit
$20 that's when I got I think is it is it my tattoo on this side or is it on the other side okay yeah so I got the pancake swap tattoo yeah those [ __ ] they blessed me uh but we were we had gotten a house we rented a
House in Miami after the Ritz Carlton uh we bought our first nfts there and then we created a group chat called crypto island with guys from the Cayman Island and just Ballers and in crypto and we started talking about nfts and [ __ ] like that before it kind of
Became hot and Luca posted this photo of a pudgy penguin and he said one thing he posted it this is when it just launched it was 0. one eth he posted and he said the Asian Community is going to love this and that was the thesis for him
Buying it at that point the entire crypto nft Bull Run took place things went up things went down and then I get a message one day I'm in Croatia I get a message one day and I'm like and it's Luca he says let's buy pudgy I'm
Like wait what he's like yeah I just put out a tweet 750 eth I'm like okay sounds good I messaged Cole as well through one of my accounts and long story short thankfully through one of the capital club members who helped us broker the deal we got the deal and Luca just
Spearheaded the project so I gave him some cash so you bought P penguin with yeah yeah I think I put in half a million dollars out of the 2.5 and because there wasn't a lot of liquidity providers and we went to a lot of founders of the top projects and they
Didn't give a rat's ass about Luca they didn't bet on this guy uh but Luca has a background of taking IP that is undervalued and absolutely blowing it up so uh tossed a little bit of coin there said LCA take it and he absolutely demolished it but had the project gone
To what I believe it's going to go to it's a multi-billion dollar company or V gone to zero it didn't really make a difference to me my bet was with Luca Nets and I'll continue betting on him as an individual because like you said it's not the IP that that matters necessarily
It's not just the nfts it's not even the community alone it's the people that are carrying it right it's the individuals that are running the project and when you have somebody once again understands sales and understands marketing and distribution which are the two keys you win he said the exact same during the
Podcast so before when you said that you know if you can have the best project if you don't understand distribution and marketing and sales it's not going he said the exact same right it was the absolute most important no one understand that in crypto basically like because because because like I said you
Can have a great product but if nobody sees it it doesn't really make a difference yeah so the Ecom kid came in and just absolutely took over and it just made absolute sense where do you think py is going 100 e 100 E Yeah cycle the cycle I mean it's
Just it's it's it's you can no longer value it as an nft company it it'll compete with the likes of Hello Kitty it'll compete with the likes of Mickey Mouse it'll compete with the likes of the highest IPS in the world and you'll have the premium of
Crypto on the top which is like all the speculation part if you're like because there's a bull run there's nft Bull Run so you we benefit in the good times from the ACT actual premium crypto premium which is uh pretty amazing is there another crypto projector community that you're super bullish
On that's out there today right not something like super private yeah I mean that's out there today my my three my four bets are very straightforward pudgy penguins monad and Jupiter exchange to me those three are just absolutely leading fire horses they're just going to Trail just Trail the path for what it
Means to build high quality decentralized Finance projects what it's going to be to rebuild on top of a ium a good user experience for manad and then pudy penguins like I talked about my predictions for 2024 pudgy Penguins will not only flip bapat Club it'll make the acquisition of artifact Studios look
Like a peanut when it's all said and done so in crypto we have these crazy booms and bursts right and when everything bursts everything burst like 2022 was really bad and so even for me I was complet I had like I was a big Luna holder had like 7 million that turned
Into $5 in two days so when something like that happen and I have some friends like one had 250 mil turned into like probably $500 when things like that happen I mean obviously you feel [ __ ] stupid and you start to wonder like hey like was it
All just luck all my businesses all my investing all that so you need to kind of feel the pain right but there is something that's really important when you're about to kind of like leave or abandon to understand it's kind of the concept John Adam said every
Problem is an opportunity in these guys you said every problem is an opportunity and opportunity is there all the time can you give me an inspiring example of a moment in your life where you thought that things were over for you but then you doubled down on working
Your ass off and later on in hindsight realized that in pain and problems Li the biggest opportunities I remember when I was poor in the pocket not the mind I went into a Walmart and I had to call my bank because my my bank account had overdrafted by $16 in order to buy
Groceries and it was the lowest time in my life because I felt ashamed that I that I couldn't even afford groceries and at that time I could have gotten a regular job at that time I could have uh said [ __ ] this [ __ ] I'm going to quit I could have said oh this
Is another person's fault but I looked at that situation and I said I never want to experience this ever again and the first thing that I did was by uh the book reminiscence of a stock operator m and I said I'm going to learn about the
Markets and ever since then it's been an upside and it was that that situation that made me feel disgusted with my current living conditions that instead of complaining led me to change and you know I would be in the bus I would take the bus for about an hour to work and
Then I would take the train for about another hour and every single day just learning the basics of psychology of trading I don't do technical analysis I I'm purely a value-based investor and I bet on people right so if you look at my investment plays it's me betting on
People dude I I don't take credit for anything I don't take credit for for any sort of investment that I make I just bet on winning horses and uh sometimes they play off so I bet on CZ I bet on Luca I bet on Mark Zuckerberg and they don't
Disappoint so in those really hard moment it's how do you take the pain and turn it into fire in the belly basically you don't have a choice bro when you're at the bottom what do you have to lose when you have nothing to lose you have nothing to
Lose how like how many how many you you're going to live 80 years of your life how many years of that of that life are you going to live broke I want to experience wealth I want to experience a good life now I've already experienced this side of reality the shitty stuff
Having to eat ramen noodles sleeping on couches sleeping in my car pressure washing basketball courts cleaning toilets I've done this [ __ ] I don't want to do it for the rest of my life I experienced it I'm grateful for it I'm thankful that life gave me the opportunity to learn these things but it
Doesn't mean that that's what I'm want to live for the rest of my life so it's not oh me poor me dude I'm my life has been just blessings on blessings on blessings I'm glad I wasn't born in some country in the middle of of Africa or in
The Congo where I have to mine lithium out of the ground or that I'm getting bombed in the middle of nowhere because of my beliefs or because the United States decided that they wanted to free my country right so just the fact that I have the opportunity to wake up I'm
Healthy it's a blessing and I think that the fundamental shift is two things one is a good attitude wherever you see productivity you're going to see a person with a good attitude and the second one is gratitude being super grateful for what I have when you're grateful life is going to
Continue blessing you when you're ungrateful when you are selfish when you are blaming others when you're negative pessimistic life will simply project what you give it so I wanted to be positive and I always believed in myself and it worked out and in those moment that are really hard actually that's
When you kind of because as you said you don't have the choice that's when you're actually the best like the better version of yourself because I'm not sure about the expression in English but in French we say you basically say it in Fr you have basically your back against the wall
Right which means you have no other option and so when you have no other option because there's no other option you make it work and that's why I really encourage my friends who are like hey I have this job but I want to start this company just take the leap because when
You take the leap you have no other option like the as long as you keep your job and you have this money coming in like you have the option right of failure whereas when you start it's like okay now I we we always say take the
Leap and the net will appear you have to build your plane while you're falling right otherwise you're going to crash on the floor and it's really in those moments that the best [ __ ] happens in those moment that you turn these really bad moments and where where where where the opportunity um uh
Where the problem is an opportunity these guys it's exactly that and and and you know I was talking with the the former president the son of the former president of Singapore last name on and obviously he comes from wealth he comes from a family that has been able to uh
Really educate him and he said every problem is an opportunity and it's how you see the situation that determines the action that you're going to attach to it are you going to see a problem and be like well I can't change or you going to see it and be
Like hm I can do something about it where there is problems there's profit and where there's problems there's business and if you can identify that you can make a whole lot of money we talk about business making a lot of money obviously we need to talk about
Woman cuz you have really interesting on woman so the first question is in relation to making money are woman a hindrance for men to to become rich the wrong woman yes the right woman will Empower you she will fuel you she will inspire you and she will push
You towards becoming a better version of yourself I've only been with one woman my entire life I'm still with her been over 10 years she was with me when I had nothing she would drive me to work I had no car uh so when I started having things
Or you know I got everything that I wanted and I became somebody how could I let her go you know so she believed in me she trusted me when I had nothing and she valued me when I was poor and insignificant and now that I've achieved
Some sort of success and in some way shape or form it's uh only fair that I bring her along for the journey so my perspective is very simple find individuals that will Empower you and if you can find a a partner that loves you for who you are but also empowers you to
Become a better version of yourself stick close to that person be loyal be honest be kind be authentic and keep those people around because there's not too many people in life that are going to want the best for you and if you can't find a good woman if you can't
Find a good partner it's it's usually a reflection of you because you attract people and if you attract poor people well it's most likely a condition of you if you attract hose it's most likely a reflection of you so if you need to or you can't find somebody of High Caliber
Of high quality that that polishes you stay away from it I it's funny I was I was going back to meow he was like he was asking me today he's like should should I be dating a ton of girls I'm like no just like find find one person
That just empowers you and elevates you and stick true to that individual now it's different philosophies for different people anybody can do whatever they they want but for me it worked out extremely well and it all comes down and I'm not married but it all comes down by one
Thesis uh there's a verse in the Bible that says he that findeth a wife findeth a good thing not he that findeth a woman that has the potential to be a good wife but he that findeth a wife findeth a good thing and finds uh and finds
Pleasure or finds uh uh honor in the eyes of God so you also begin to study uh wise men throughout history and most of them were corrupted by women so I understand how tempting it can be but I also understand that if you find people
That can Empower you it can take you to the top so what was your advice to because especially in today's word and that's something that Andrew talks about which is as a man right the game is very different as a woman you can I wouldn't say as a woman the dating
Game is easier it's much easier to get the guys you want but then it's not easy to keep them and to see who is full of [ __ ] or who is really serious right as a man it's kind of harder because most of the women they go from for the top you
Know 5% or 10% 1% men and so for a man it's more about how do you build kind of respect right how do you build your personal brand and how do you build your life so that women respect you and you attract them instead of the
Opposite having to chase them I agree uh especially if you're building things you don't have time to date like crazy it's impossible like just two time it's a job in itself just dating around yeah I mean it's it's imagine imagine you have to entertain 10 women like that's a that's
A lot of Maintenance it's not it's like it's like having to entertain 10 multiple different things is it can be for you like if you can handle it so be it that's your cup of tea That's when you enjoy perfect but for me it's just not it's not an ethos that I've operated
Or that I've enjoyed and I've talked to Andrew about it we haven't talked in a while but I've talked to him about it I was like hey when are you going to settle with one girl and we chuckled about it we laughed about it when I was
Out in Romania but um yeah he has a different perspective about it it's totally fair he's become highly successful with his philosophy of life so uh mind just is a little bit different but to each their own yeah what should be the priority for a man
Taking care of your of your family wife and children or pursuing your mission at the cost of not seeing the ones you love and care for live a life of balance why not both why not both why not you know divide your time into the things all the
Things that you enjoy why not divide your time in your attention into multiple areas of life that are valuable to you if you know you didn't have a good father well you have the opportunity to become a good father you know if you had siblings that took care
Of you and empowered you when you had nothing bring them along for the journey right if your mom is not retired what the [ __ ] you do in driving a Lamborghini you know so so it's all about perspective you know there's priorities and different people have different
Priorities but I think that there's a a a novelty in finding balance and understanding that there's a beauty of sharing success with your family there's a beauty of seeing your family winning with you and even though they may not help in the sense of your business they
Took care of you for [ __ ] so long you owe it to them to give them a great life and yeah I think you can have both that's that and I and I'm a Living Testament of it you know I my parents I I pay their salary you know my my
Parents work within my organization they're basically retired I'm not going to retire them oh just go do go play Bingo all day they don't want that they want to be involved in in what we do they want to be involved in the ecosystem they want to see us develop so
Why not take care of them and I think that there is a beautiful balance in taking care of your friends taking care of your family taking care of your loved ones and still pursuing your dreams and your goals I don't think that you have to sacrifice one or the other to have
The other what do you think about um the more kind of materialist materialistic side of things watches I mean I know you like watches cars all that stuff do you think is it's a moment that everyone who kind of like builds withth has to go through
To realize oh man luuka was saying the same actually was like oh man I'm so [ __ ] stupid I bought this car there it made no sense like what's your view on that it all depends on what you enjoy you know I I kind of went into the watch
Game after nfts because I was like oh cool like I can start collecting I got interested in the space I I kind of had some boys that that were reselling watches so I built a $1.25 million watch collection but I only wear two of the watches so it's like I'm there sitting
And I'm like it was it a little bit of a waste that I that I have all these watches sitting in the vault did I like okay it's it's a good investment yeah that's cool but do I need these things and then I I have a million doll Pokemon
Collection I'm like okay like what the [ __ ] am I doing with the Pokemon collection and then I bought a $4 million house and I'm like there's people coming into my house every single day and and I have gardeners and I have cleaners and it feels like a hotel so I
Sold the house and then I was like I want to be light in baggage I want to be able to move I want to have that flexibility so I started getting rid of a lot of my material possessions to Simply Be able to to free up my mental
Real estate because when I had I had a small fleet of cars I got rid of them because maintenance focusing on making sure that they're taken care of same thing with the real estate I think real estate is a great investment vehicle but I don't want to manage properties I
Don't want to have to worry about maintenance yeah other people can do that for sure but it's just not my cup of tea I want to be light of baggage I want to be able to be free flowing I like to travel the world I like to stay
In hotels like I like to be free and that means that sometimes material possessions hold you down from achieving great things so I want to stay away from things that I really don't need mam mamot Musashi famously said get rid of things that are of no use so if something doesn't serve you
Anymore and maybe it served you in the past you don't have to be attached to that thing and so if he says and he he he's he's a great Samurai philosopher but he says don't do things that are of no use and I begin to explore that
Philosophy and I begin to only do the things that are useful and I begin to not realize that my success is attached to materialistic things they don't determine me they don't determine my identity yeah I understand the perspective of playing the game you know you you sit down you have a $50,000
Watch somebody may look at you in a different way but I've never sat across from a billionaire and I've sat down across six and they look at my watch and be like ah I want to do I want to listen to this guy because of what he's wearing
Or what he's doing most of them you could see him walking down the street and you wouldn't even recognize him as billionaires very low key Absolut the the most successful people super lowkey because because they have nothing to prove absolutely you know I one of my
One of my business partners um we have a crypto fund and he invested in Bitcoin sub1 2011 but he dresses like a bum you know and he's my boy but he has nothing to prove and and you look how how he travels very light very simple
Easygoing and that just shows a level of confidence that money does buy absolutely it's a level of confidence that money actually buys but you see it exemplified through the Simplicity of life and Leonardo da Vinci famously said which is one of my favorite quotes of all time he said Simplicity is the
Ultimate sophistication being able to simplify your life in such an incredible way that it's so easy to live I think there is this meme that I saw the other day it's so funny it's basically poor no car mid middle class average car Rich lumbo wealthy no car basically
It's exactly that right and so you kind of and the the the common topic that I have with most people who come on this podcast who made most of them they made hundreds of millions or billions and they're super humble super chill and most of them they went through
This kind of like entire Loop right or this kind of like life round tripping or happiness R tripping which is hey I thought I needed all that stuff I'm building towards that I'm making all this money just to realize that it's back to like the basic things and it
Might sounds like a cliche or oh yeah the basic the basic things make you happy but if you can't be happy with a coffee you're not going to be um with you're not going to be happy with a jet right so it's just like all these people making the S realization
That at the end of the day yes obviously you want to have a minimum amount of money which we talked about before we all have goals based on our lifestyle and all that stuff right but there is an a threshold or a certain amount above which doesn't make any difference and
Happiness will never come from that M yeah and also understanding that it's not just happiness but your identity isn't attached to those to those things and you know sometimes I talk about like my crypto losses you know but my identity isn't even attached to my crypto losses it's not attached to my
Crypto wins it's not attached to my investment wins or my investment losses what I have what I don't have it's simply am I pursuing my fullest potential am I being authentic with myself am I an actual person that is that is true to my values and it goes
Goes back to what I said in the beginning when it's all said and done I'm laying on my deathbed can I look at myself individually and say you did well you you succeeded you didn't compromise your values there's a verse that says what does a man Prosper if he gains the
Whole world and loses his own soul nothing so I don't want to gain everything and lose myself in the process and I think that there's a massive virtue in accomplishing that and that's why I don't attach my identity to my wins to my my losses I'm just trying
To experience life I'm trying to learn like everybody else we're on this we're all on this planet trying to figure things out and if we can be authentic that none of us have it all figured out we're all just trying to play this game
The best we can then you can walk with a little bit more graciousness a little bit more truth and be light of baggage and focus on pursuing your fullest potential maybe as a good wrapup what's your biggest [ __ ] up in crypto or in life I'd say life [ __ ] up there's so
Many that's they keep flashing they keep flashing I'm like I'm like I'm like I could I could have bought Bitcoin at cheaper price I could have not sold the Bitcoin I I got [ __ ] with this play I yeah but at the end of the day bro it's
I'm just happy to be alive thank you for having me on the podcast um I'm grateful to be here and I look forward to part two somewhere around the world thank you so much man you're not just an entrepreneur but you're a role model for many and our generation obviously
Needs more Role Models like you so from all of them and from for from our listeners I'd like to thank you for what you're doing for putting yourself out there as you said before you know talking truth comes with a lot of criticism and even maybe some threats
And you you still do it right without caring about all the threats and Crim that come with it so because it's the price brother all of them aristotles Plato all the greats were once revered as fools they were burned at the stake they were laughed at they were even
Crucified and that's the price you have to pay for the exploration of truth and that's the price you have to pay to unplug people from the [ __ ] system and if I got to take a couple arrows for the team so [ __ ] be it wow thank you for reading this tonight man
It was an absolute hell of a conversation absolutely bro thank you awesome cool
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TRUE Wealth 👽
Luke have you ever read the book called meet your strawman ?
This podcast is really good one of the best of luke
I just realised i haven t integrate it until now,while women are on birth control,they re body thinks it s all the time pregnant and they will want weaker more femanized men
And when they get of it it s the opposite,because they re searching for a mate,that needs to be strong,strong jowline,v shape
It s crazy to think about
Your Spirit and your Soul are two different things.
Luke👏🏻
Cant find the crypto where he is talking about ‘Manat’
Enjoyed watching 👌
Thanks for an awesome interview brother.
SubhanAllah
#undeniable
Him and Tristan 🤴
LUKE is an inspiration and a role model for me, he like an older brother to me ( not biological ) .
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i admire the host of the podcast that he really tries to articulate his points and is very much authentic, keep up the great work and wish you the luck brother.
But can we agree that the host was epic and didnt interupt and asked good questions
1:17:00
👽🔥heavy knowledge
Reef chain is an EVM compatible blockchain for DeFi. It is fast, scalable, has low transaction costs and does no wasteful mining.
WOW , great interviewing skills!!! This was so enjoyable. I’ve watched damn near ever pod of Luke’s and this gotta be my favorite one already
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I'M NEW TO BTC AND I'VE BEEN MAKING LOSSES TRYING TO MAKE PROFIT MYSELF IN TRADING…I THOUGHT TRADING DEMO ACCOUNT IS JUST LIKE TRADING THE REAL MARKET… CAN ANYONE HELP ME OUT OR AT LEAST ADVISE ME ON WHAT TO DO?
#DONTEATSEEDOILRETARDFOOD
Best fcking conversation with Luke seen so far on here. Thanks when shift happens for that. We definitely need another one with you and Luke.
52:20 💎 ❤️
#lukebelamar 🔥🔥
So you think learning to trade is a waste of time ?
So are you saying ALL I have to do to take advantage of the crypto bullrun is to buy some Bitcoin ? I have no prior knowledge about crypto but I so bad want to take advantage and make money off this bullrun
How has this only got 39k views?
Praise God and work man. For every man sweat man shall eat bread. Make sure you provide value G and make sure you inspire 💪🏽. Let’s achieve everything we said that we would. All praise and all love 🙏🏽.
Luke 🎉❤!
Luke is fckn G
Thank you Luke, this was loaded with insights.
#GLITCH🔥
such an awesome podcast u drop here. I discovered this channel for luke but the SPACE you create to let each other talk, its beautiful! Kepp doing it!
TEACHER LOSER🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
Always been a fan of Luke, what he has to say, his perspective and the truths he exposes. I agree alongside other people when they say this is one of the most insightful podcasts. Awesome job you both! 🌟👽
What is Monad? I can’t find what coin you are referring to.
People say money flows where attention flows, but if that attention is manipulated by mainstream do u do the opposite??
i watched around 10 podcast of luke and this one is my most favorite. very respectful interviewer
1:32:29
he means monad labs?
It´s incredible how the mind of luke is elevating you. All the love, all the power.
You guys don’t know this but Luke constantly quotes “The Strangest Secret in the World” – Earl Nightingale
fuck this grifter and all his glitches
#Undeniable
Fantastic interviewer. Great convo.
I still don't know why Luke dosnt mention Monero (XMR)
56:57
1:05:26
I think everyone is been fooled, bitcoin was created by cia and they have backdoors to it. Funny how blackrock now a massive advocate. There is no way that one individual call satoshi created bitcoin. There was some email back and forth from so called satoshi ages ago. Depending on the time of email the punctuation and grammar of email as different. Make money and get out, this is the Matrix because it will send everyone into full control. And Gensler is the 33rd chair, 33 degree masonary springs to mind. Everything is not as it seems
Which crypto was said at 1:20:49?