Cleo

Prayer does not eliminate ignorance, there is no substitute for knowledge.

[Cleo @CMatinhari]

Stay single until you find someone who compliments your life in a way that makes the relationship and you better.

[Cleo @CMatinhari]

@Airaasayss 50 people minus 30 killed = 20 plus me and the killer

There are 32 people in the room

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@SepzenoOfficial I got this fellas

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@DeChristianLife Even tye dog was like "bro, where you going without us"

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https://t.co/srg2ErpdPM

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@antiapebackup @grok what is the name of the song

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@wiseconnector Common sense

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@HardTalkZw @begottensun @kudaktaru Hard talk is now hardly talking

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Every single day doing something for my soul, my body ad my mind

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@SnoopDogg One year later

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@SnoopDogg One year later

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@KochiRolland Well said. If they a aid talking about hard issues, then it's a red flag.

[Cory Sylvester 📦 @StorageDataDev]

I wanted to be an investment banker after college.

My grades weren’t good enough and I blew the interviews I did get.

I accepted a middle office role, supporting traders who liked to fling bottle caps at my head.

I pivoted to working as a credit analyst, underwriting loans for ultra-wealthy clients.

Not 10% as sexy as Investment Banking, but I learned a ton and worked for some of the best people I ever met in my career.

I applied to work for the CIO of asset management next.

I didn’t get the job.

The people that worked for him were mostly former investment banking analysts, or at least had killer resumes and intellect.

I had neither.

But I applied again, and in our 1x1 interview, I told him I would outwork anyone.

I got the job this time.

It was 2009, and he was responsible for guiding the ship for J.P. Morgan’s richest clients.

I worked 7 days a week, a slave to my blackberry, but I absolutely loved it.

The role lasted a few years, that's the most you can last at the pace he sustained.

I pivoted again.

This time I was picking technology stocks for a large fund inside J.P. Morgan.

I loved it, and I added value.

When I realized that your compensation isn’t really tied to the alpha you generate, I lost all steam.

I pivoted again.

Moved to a hedge fund.

The hedge fund blew up 3 months after I showed up.

I pivoted again.

I started advising hedge funds on big ideas.

Self Storage was the first one we found that had a big opportunity.

We were successful and made our clients a lot of money, but our business model wasn’t scalable.

So I pivoted again.

We found that no one had figured out where every storage facility was.

We built the tech and grinded for 2 years to solve that problem.

Today most people in the storage industry use our platform @radius_plus

When we found a new way to think about developing but our clients didn’t think it was worth what we did, I pivoted again.

I called one of my favorite clients and pitched the idea of starting a private equity real estate firm to build storage in a way that no one was.

@dxd_capital was created.

3 years in and we’ve raised $150MM in capital so far and built some beautiful buildings (see below).

Everything you’ve read to this point has taken 20 years.

I haven’t had any big liquidity events, still drive a shitty car and rent a 1,900 sq/ft home.

It takes a long time.

I failed & pivoted a lot.

I had to have blind faith that I would find success.

Most days I struggled to not think that I was a failure.

Your path will look different, but if you outwork everyone and continue to push your own ceiling, then you will find success.

I promise.

[Cleo @CMatinhari]

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@MindPsychology_ It's our moral obligation to ourselves to do that which makes our life meaningful, even if it's carrying our on cross.

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@Sag3Th3Succubus @MindPsychology_ Well said.

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@koolhandstl @MindPsychology_ Mmm, interesting. What does that mean?

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@gassmetal @MindPsychology_ Well said

[Cleo @CMatinhari]

@MitchellMGumbo It's our moral obligation to ourselves to do that which makes our life meaningful, even if it's carrying our on cross.

[Cleo @CMatinhari]

@MRShipley4Truth @Liz_Wheeler Well said

[David Olusegun @dfolusegun]

There are days when I don't want to get out of bed and take a day off,

but I still follow my daily routine.

Why?

If you want to be successful,

you have to be consistent with your efforts.

These consistent efforts over a long period of time will make you successful.