In a brief interview, an angel investor who earned over $100 million in a single year discusses his unconventional background—self‑taught, twice incarcerated, learned coding in rehab—and his core business philosophy. He argues that while millionaires focus on building systems, billionaires build people, making talent development the ultimate lever for growth. He advises aspiring entrepreneurs to assume they are wrong, quickly test their riskiest assumptions, and iterate based on real‑world feedback, warning that traditional business‑school mindsets often lead to failure. The segment ends with a call‑to‑action inviting viewers to comment “mentor” to receive direct mentorship.
Excuse me, sir. Quick question for you. Have you ever been broke before? Uh, yeah. And what line of business are you in? I'm an angel investor. What was the most amount of money that you've made in a single year?
Uh, over $100 million. Over $100 million? Yeah. What took you from making 8 to 9 figures in your business? Here's where people get wrong. Most people, when they start, they're trying to make money and they focus on building systems, which is cool. Millionaires build systems, but billionaires build people. So if anything, my job is talent development. Talent's the endgame in business. It's everything, man. You build the people, the people build the business. Did you go to college? No, self-taught. Self-taught? Yeah, self-taught. Do you come from a lot of money? No. I mean, my story is crazy because I actually ended up in prison twice by the time I was 17. I learned how to code. It saved my life in rehab.
You didn't go to college, but you made more than 99.9% of business professors ever will. Give them a real quick, a 30-second, a 60-second business masterclass that's not taught in school. A quick 30-second, 60-second business masterclass.
Okay, cool. This is the biggest thing. Most people that suck at business only start when they think they got a winning recipe. Real entrepreneurs start knowing they're wrong, and what they do is they rush out into the world to try validate the riskiest assumptions as fast as possible to then know what's broken and then fix it. They actually start with the assumption, I'm probably— I'm not probably, I'm wrong. There's something about my business idea that's wrong. So that's why most business professors are broke, because they have a mindset that like, oh, most businesses fail. Yeah, guess what? That mentality is going to cause you to fail. That is business in a nutshell, guys.
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