Aftab Rizen

Day job : email marketing for coaches / course creators ||
Side hustle : collecting good ideas ||
Follow for tweets on biz , marketing and psychology

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Most course creators make 80% of their revenue in 2 weeks a year.

The other 50 weeks? Their email list sits silent.

Here's why that's a massive mistake — and the exact system that fixes it: 🧵

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@AlexHormozi the fewer competitors you have, the more you care about your customers

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@mattvanswol Give that man a raise and a lifetime supply of Red Bull 😂

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@IAmAlenSultanic read this very thing today in The Untethered Soul ...
that little tiny voice inside your head is not you . Observe it but don't believe it and listen to everything it says.

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Elon has been way ahead of his time :

1. In 1999, a 28-year-old Musk founded https://t.co/KEhygMC7bu. He wanted a single website to handle all banking, investing, and insurance.

Investors laughed. The board ousted him, ditched the vision, and renamed it PayPal.
Most people thought the idea died. Musk just waited.

Now, he owns the domain again, bought Twitter, renamed it X, and is rolling out global peer-to-peer banking. It took 25 years, but the plan never changed.

2. In 2001, Musk flew to Moscow to buy cheap Russian rockets for a small Mars project. A Russian engineer looked at him and literally spat on his shoes.

On the flight home, Musk calculated the raw material costs of a rocket. He realized the raw metals and fuel only made up 3% of the price tag. The rest was just bloated corporate bureaucracy.

He founded SpaceX months later. Today, he controls the global launch market.

Which brings us to what he is building right now.

3. People look at Neuralink and Optimus robots and call them distractions from making cars.

They are making the exact same mistake the banks made in 1999 and the Russians made in 2001.

Musk isn't building random gadgets. He is preparing for two specific threats: a collapsing global workforce and the data bottleneck between human brains and AI.

Optimus isn't a toy—it's a labor-infinite machine built for a world running out of workers. Neuralink isn't a medical gimmick—it's a high-speed data pipe designed to keep human intelligence relevant alongside AI.

4. Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X are not separate companies. They are a single infrastructure network.

The cars train the vision AI. The AI runs the robots. The rockets launch the satellites. The satellites coordinate the network.

Elon's ex-wife once said "Elon's running the world , and we are just watching"

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"I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest... But they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were that morning." - Charlie Munger

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AJamesMcCarthy Read books, talk to people & iterate rapidly with hardware & software

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you gotta have a sprint mindset with marathon endurance.

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@jonbrosio Every great entrepreneur was rejected many times (even by their heroes) before they proved everybody wrong !! Keep building

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@PeterDiamandis This is a profound milestone — one that quietly shifts us from "AI as a tool" to "AI as co-creator of its own future.

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Elon has been way ahead of his time :

1. In 1999, a 28-year-old Musk founded https://t.co/KEhygMC7bu. He wanted a single website to handle all banking, investing, and insurance.

Investors laughed. The board ousted him, ditched the vision, and renamed it PayPal.
Most people thought the idea died. Musk just waited.

Now, he owns the domain again, bought Twitter, renamed it X, and is rolling out global peer-to-peer banking. It took 25 years, but the plan never changed.

2. In 2001, Musk flew to Moscow to buy cheap Russian rockets for a small Mars project. A Russian engineer looked at him and literally spat on his shoes.

On the flight home, Musk calculated the raw material costs of a rocket. He realized the raw metals and fuel only made up 3% of the price tag. The rest was just bloated corporate bureaucracy.

He founded SpaceX months later. Today, he controls the global launch market.

Which brings us to what he is building right now.

3. People look at Neuralink and Optimus robots and call them distractions from making cars.

They are making the exact same mistake the banks made in 1999 and the Russians made in 2001.

Musk isn't building random gadgets. He is preparing for two specific threats: a collapsing global workforce and the data bottleneck between human brains and AI.

Optimus isn't a toy—it's a labor-infinite machine built for a world running out of workers. Neuralink isn't a medical gimmick—it's a high-speed data pipe designed to keep human intelligence relevant alongside AI.

4. Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X are not separate companies. They are a single infrastructure network.

The cars train the vision AI. The AI runs the robots. The rockets launch the satellites. The satellites coordinate the network.

Elon's ex-wife once said "Elon's running the world , and we are just watching"

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon's transformation from 2001 to now 2026

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2001: "I'm a little tired of the internet" (CNN) + buys https://t.co/KEhygMC7bu domain back later.
2026: Owns X, building the everything app.

2001: Joins Mars Society, pitches Mars Oasis greenhouse, tries buying Russian rockets.

2026: SpaceX with reusable rockets, Starlink global, Dragon to ISS, Starship progress to Mars.

It's wild how far ahead he thinks and plans.

Elon's a Long Game GOAT

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it's crazy how diversity only ever goes one way.

nobody's marching through Tokyo, Dubai or Mumbai demanding they flood in Western culture or shame their own traditions.

but suggest the same for Europe or the US and you're a bigot. This isn't really about equality—it's selective guilt and power.

not every culture delivers the same outcomes, and acting like they do is weakening the West.

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@alexgroberman too much value mate thanks !! Instant bookmarked

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@russellbrunson especially in today's time when the barrier to building a product is so low , distribution is the new MOAT

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@thejustinwelsh a sure fire way to increase some self respect

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@levelsio Just like atlassian does to every acquisition

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@mattvanswol Man, a church carnival turning into a straight-up brawl with hundreds of teens?

That's wild. They had to shut the whole FunFest down because of it.
Hope the school still raises some money somehow... crazy night in Ohio

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@Business_Nerd_ Now at 8,200 employees, they’re still executing hard on their mission to increase the GDP of the internet. Principles like this compound beautifully

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@KevinSzabo14 our brain is like SpongeBob

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@LifeMathMoney we are still running on your primitive brain a cave woman would have never slept with a man who is equal to her

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@KevinSzabo14 Xmaxxing