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30 Years of Business Knowledge In Just 7 Lessons (opens the original)
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I’ve exited 5 businesses and built 2 billion-dollar businesses.I scaled Teles properties from $300M to $3.4B in just 5 years by accidentally adding an extra zero on a spreadsheet.But I’ve also watched 100s of businesses fail. In fact, I’ve had a business that failed too.So here are the 7 biggest lessons I’ve learned from building businesses for 30 years:1. Focus is more important than intelligence.I believe that to do great things, we must do fewer things.At acquisition(.)c
After 31 Years of Investing, This Is My Exact System (opens the original)
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Most people are investing completely wrong.But it’s not because they’re picking the wrong stocks or ETFs… It’s because they don’t have a system for how to actually invest.I learned my investing system from the wealthiest clients I ever worked with at Goldman Sachs.And it’s the exact same system I still use for my own money today with 3 parts:Keep 20% in opportunistic cashAlways have dry powder for the moment everyone else is scared and prices are low. This is exactl
How to Build a Big Business With a Small Brand in 2026 (opens the original)
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It’s going to get harder and harder to get social impressions. But it’s not because people will stop using social media…It’s because social media has a supply-and-demand problem.Here’s what I mean:Demand is human attention: Human Attention = People x TimeSupply is competitive content trying to capture that attentionSo this means demand is constrained, but supply is not. And now with AI, the gap between supply and demand is becoming much bigger.The cost of crea
Pokémon’s $140B Deal Can Make You Rich (Here’s How) (opens the original)
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In 2007, I joined Goldman Sachs as an investment Banker. I went through 39 interviews to get what I thought was my dream job.But just 3 years later, I left.And it was one of the most stressful periods of my life.But I also realized something that is the reason I was able to build 2 billion-dollar businesses and exit from 5.So here are 3 things I learned at Goldman that pushed me out the door and into entrepreneurship:Wall Street's hidden cost is fees that compoundA 1% advisory fee
How to Actually Sell a Business (opens the original)
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I’ve exited 5 businesses and built 2 billion-dollar businesses.I’ve learned what investors are looking for when they want to buy your business and how to actually sell it to them.But I’ve also learned the selling mistakes the hard way that have cost me millions…And so this is why I’ve put together 4 tips I wish I’d known about sooner when selling a business.Starting with…1. Get skin in the game before you build any infrastructureDon’
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