Alexander LorenzoCoinPicks, CoinPicks · Founder & Chief Investment Officer CoinPicks Capital 👇🏾This strategy made me 8 million dollars

ENTREPRENEURSHIP HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MAKING MONEY

21 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this solo YouTube monologue, Alexander Lorenzo recounts his youthful belief that entrepreneurship was simply about making quick, repeatable weekly cash goals—e.g., earning $500 a week from a YouTube tutorial and scaling that to financial freedom. He then dismantles that mindset, arguing it is the opposite of true entrepreneurship. Instead of chasing short‑term revenue, he urges creators to build something of high quality that can endure for years and generate massive, lasting impact for people. The core message is a shift from a money‑first, week‑by‑week plan to a value‑first, long‑term vision that doesn’t require constant pivots.

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When I was 21 years old, I used to think that if I can make a plan and get money in one week's time consistently over time, that's going to add to like a monthly income and then I'll be a full-time entrepreneur. That's the way I thought. I would sit there and I'd be like, look, I'm gonna make $500 this week. I'm gonna look at a YouTube video that tells me that I can get it in the next 7 days. I'm gonna follow it exactly. And if I make that $500, all I have to do is that 4 times and that's $2,000. I become financially free and now I am an entrepreneur. Let me explain something to you. That is the exact opposite way of how you want to think in entrepreneurship. What you to think is, how can I do something so high quality that it will stand the test of time? I don't have to change this thing for the next 10 years. Instead of thinking about how you could receive, you have to think about how I could help people on a massive impact, a huge impact that will stand the test of time. And I don't have to look at it for a while, and then I can work on something else.