My mom passed away last night with 10 family members by her side.
She was the first in our family to escape the Soviet Union. She arrived in California with nothing, hustled as a single mom of 4, and achieved the American dream in every respect.
She was crafty, resourceful, and could make humor out of any situation.
Here’s a photo of us when money was tight: I asked to be Aladdin for Halloween, so she dressed me up as a Russian gypsy and thought I wouldn’t notice.
April 20, 1950 - June 21, 2026
All it takes is one trade. You just need to hold long enough for the toursits to panic sell and the whales/exchanges to eat up the dips for the next legs.
Being emotional about every small candle is how you lose long term. Mentally writing it off and just riding the waves is the best way to win long term. Nothing goes up forever and corrections are healthy.
If you can’t hold you won’t be rich.
It’s not humbled me yet, just ultimately made me more conservative… there’s a lot of things that become available for you the more successful(financially) you become, but growing older, getting, owning, having more gives you the burden of responsibility, you realize actions have more consequences and a couple of things you could get away with as a younger man, might stick around you/haunt you as you get older because now you’re no longer a random with nothing to lose, you start to think about second and third order effects of whatever you do and it just makes you less impulsive, more conservative.. so yea you lose some spring in your step as you get to this age, but it’s certainly not been humbling from my POV
People that mourn mistakes simply don’t believe in themselves. Everyone that wants to make it in 1 month is really saying “I need to get very lucky because I do not believe I am equipped to make it in a sustainable way over the next 5-10 years”. Those people would be much better off studying, trying again, failing, learning, etc until they do believe in themselves. And then it doesn’t matter.
Believe it or not, this is how I funded @crshmarket in the beginning.
No campus jobs accepted me. I applied to be a dining assistant as well as a cleaner, but was rejected from both. In my mind, the only job that offered instant payouts was DoorDash, but I didn't have a vehicle. When I found out I could do the deliveries on foot, I went ahead and did so.
I covered over 100 miles across Austin, lost about 15 pounds, and earned enough money to buy my props, branding supplies, and eventually a scooter.
Now our company is worth $10M, I've gone on two national tours, and we've been featured on Fox News.
Pretty cool what you can accomplish by just starting.
The demographics of VI, Ikoyi and even Lekki are shifting fast. By 2030, foreign nationals, Lebanese, Indian, Chinese could outnumber the local population in these areas. They are coming to your country in vast numbers and are making it BIG here.