How to create momentum in life from nothing...

4 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Matthew Kelly dropped out of university with £500, bought a one-way ticket to Singapore in 2017, and built an entrepreneurial network from nothing by meeting people and traveling. After a business failure, he rebuilt momentum by documenting his process, which became a YouTube channel.

Questions this video answers

Early/mid 2017 (bought a one-way ticket to Singapore).

About £500 ("500 quid").

Because he didn't meet entrepreneurs at university in Newcastle (lack of entrepreneurial connections).

YouTube (he started documenting the process, which became a small YouTube channel).

Chapters

People used to say like, how did you meet entrepreneurs? And it's like, well, I didn't meet any in uni and in Newcastle, which is why I dropped out. And then I took a one way ticket to Singapore when I had like 500 quid in my bank account in like early 2017, mid 2017. And I met loads of people and I created momentum that way. And that went on to. I traveled to Bali and I. Over time that was kind of the catalyst for me meeting a lot of people and building these entrepreneurial circles which a lot of people say I have, you know, a notably good one now and I definitely do and I think that's a very valuable asset. But I create momentum from nothing and then when my business fucks up. A few years ago I was down in the sh T and I was quite good at creating momentum again by starting to document the process. I thought that would be something that would be the catalyst for, I don't know, meeting people, sharing my perspective. It might bring something new. Became obviously this YouTube channel, which is still tiny, but you get the point.