Asking the Elite in Davos How to Build Wealth.

Dr. Violet Howard asks Davos attendees if paying €10,000 to €20,000 to be there is worth it. Their answers: some say no for individuals, others swear by the networking. On building wealth, they pitch entrepreneurship, crypto, AI investments, and one guy's "Consciousness Coin."
Questions this video answers
January 27, 2025
€10,000–€20,000 (examples given: 10, 15, €20,000)
200 million Americans
30 million US dollars and above
Consciousness Coin
Chapters
10, 15, €20,000 to stay in Davos. Where do you draw the line?
I draw the line much under 10?
Well, I know Davos and a lot of the hotels here are shared. Skiing's pretty crap too, as well as the snowboarding.
Some advice for people out there that are looking to make money.
Crypto is a very good chance.
If you can become your own employee, own boss, employer, then that's the pathway to financial success.
We're here in Davos covering the World Economic Forum, and we're about to head out onto the streets to ask people if it's worth paying the exorbitant prices to be in town during the World Economic Forum. And some advice for how to get rich. I think a lot of people know it's expensive to be in Davos. 10, 15, €20,000 to stay in Davos. Where do you draw the line?
I draw the line much under 10. I've been in a mission to take emotional well being and mental health fitness to corporations and to government.
Some advice for people out there that are looking to make money or get wealthy.
I think at the moment crypto is a very good chance, especially with Trump coming in. You got 200 million Americans who are now interested in crypto. That also opens a lot of doors for other countries to also jump on the train. So you got a lot of volume coming in.
A lot of people know it's expensive to stay in Davos, but no, I.
Think it's possible to find something like one house per 1, 2, 3,000 per.
Week and worth spending that money. Do you think it's worth it?
Yeah, because you can connect with some people and then after just five years, you will earn something. It's really long game.
What do you, what do you do for business, if I may ask?
My main business, it's it. I have IT companies.
Are you staying in Davos this week?
No.
Why not?
Because it's only sort of an hour, 40 minutes from where we live. Well, I know Davos and a lot of the hotels here are shared.
Okay.
So, yeah, I wouldn't pay that amount of money to stay here. No way, no how. We're very much in cryptocurrency and we have a token we want to launch called the Consciousness Coin, which funds an ecosystem where people can learn to accelerate the mind for the the future of their relationship with artificial consciousness. We found that the level of consciousness in Davos is about. If I was talking to a rabbit with some lettuce, I would get a better level of conversation. Skiing's pretty crap. Too, as well as the snowboarding.
What advice would you give to people out there that are wasting their time and money coming to a place like this? I mean, what should people be focusing on?
In truth, they've got to stop worshipping ego and celebrity and success for its own right. They've got to stop worshipp worshipping figures that are politicians that they know and leaders that they know are liars.
If you have any advice for people that are looking to become successful, looking.
To make money, just being nice to a lot of people. Kind of like spread the love around. This is how I've had the best success. No, I'd love to say it's waking up at five o' clock in the morning and a cold shower and everything, but just being very nice to a lot of people. And then, you know, you meet the girlfriend of the, of the, the brother of the son of the Lord.
Friendliness.
What is your advice for people?
Get rich, live a joyful life. You need to be in between extremely poor and extremely rich. You need to be in between because extremely poor, he will think how to make money all the time and extremely rich thinks how to keep the money. How to get rich, Sign a good prenup like Kardashian did. Like you know your husband well, like he's cheating on her and every time he's cheating. Is she breaking up with him? No. Does she get another $10 million? Yes.
Do you think it's worth it for some people to stay in Davos if they're going to spe 10, $20,000 for the week?
Not at all.
You don't think so?
You can live in lankway and move down, but I think being in Davos and spending like 11,012, it's not worth it.
It's not worth it. Do you have any advice for people to make money, get rich?
Jumping into AI is the best, best thing you can do right now. Last year was generative AI. This year is agentic AI. Next year is physical AI. You can do advisory, you can do strategy, or you can go deep into the technology and things like that.
Your first time in DevOps, has it been a productive week?
This is not my first time in Davos. This is apparently my second time in Davos.
Okay.
And the week is very productive. To be honest, I've met a lot of investors, people who should concern that they want to invest in my country. How we can use technology to improve technology in Nigeria which works with AI. How we can improve the health sector.
It's very expensive to come to Davos. Do you think it's worth the money that some people are spending?
Is what for nations to spend, spend that money, but not for private individuals.
Okay. Is Bitcoin a better option for people to make money in the future? Especially young people?
You don't just invest in any coin. You have to decide carefully with a lot of economical conditions. Consider the global developments happening before you decide on what step and what move.
To make great connections, great camaraderie. And that's why I keep returning. So, I mean, I come out of finance, so if I didn't think there was a return on investment, you wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be here at all, for sure.
Do you have any advice for, for young people how they can get wealthy, how they can change their lives? Is there any specific advice you could give them?
Start your own business. That's the most important thing. You know, we deal with a lot of what's called ultra high net worth individuals. Those are people with 30 million US dollar and above net worth. And the single thing that they have in common is very few are employed by other people. If you want to be financially successful, you need to become an entrepreneur. That's it. And it doesn't matter what type of entrepreneurship.
Sam.










