Jake Explains

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I left America to live at Network School @ns

$1,500/mo gets you a nice hotel room, coworking, gym, 3 meals inspired by @bryan_johnson, and a community of 300+ builders from 80 countries.

This is my typical day

Application link in reply if you want to check it out 👇

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How did China build the world’s biggest metro system in just 35 years?!

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Where do 1.4 Billion Indians actually live?

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Space X will be valued at $1.75T. Here are things that cost less Do you agree with the valuation?

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I spent the last week researching India's tourism industry

A few things that stood out to me:

• For every foreign tourist, Indians take nearly 300 trips within their own country! Biggest ratio in the world

• India ranks among the world's richest countries for tourism assets, but attracts fewer international visitors than Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam

(Vietnam basically gets the same amount of foreign tourist in 3 months that India gets in a year)

• India doesn't have one tourism economy:

It has two

One domestic and one foreign

While the foreign market is super small,
The domestic India tourism market is booming:
3 Billion domestic trips in 2024, up 17.5%

Religion is now the organizing force of Indian travel

For example, Maha Kumbh 2025 was the largest human gathering on Earth with 600m+ people

• Ayodhya attracted more visitors than the Taj Mahal

• 86% of domestic visits are to the top 10 Indian states

• West Bengal recieves the 2nd most foreign tourist per year, mostly people from Bangladesh

• Four fast-growing frontiers in India
Spiritual
Wedding tourism
Medical & wellness
Cruise & luxury rail

• The opportunity is in the states no one markets

For example, the The Northeast the "Seven Sisters"
0.43% of domestic visits for a region with world-class biodiversity, festivals and adventure assets

• Why India underperforms internationally
Too few international gateways
Great destinations, limited accommodation
The world doesn't know the product
Brutal seasonality
A safety-perception gap

• The biggest surprise?
India doesn't really have a tourism product problem

It may simply have an access/marketing problem

India is, on paper advertising itself to the world with the budget of a small mid-cap company’s marketing
department!

I am going to make a deep dive video on this, so stay tuned

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North Korea is now building more houses per year than Los Angeles AND Chicago

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What can we learn by looking at Australia from space, at night?

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Why actually is Russia so freaking big? Understanding Russia Episode 2 Russia is MASSIVE

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All the Things Russia Leads in Understanding Russia Episode 1

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Could the United States ever build a high speed rail system like in China?

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What each country secretly controls Surprisingly there are several countries that completely dominate a specific natural resource like copper, cobalt, platinum Then you have food too like Spain with olive oil or Madagascar with vanilla Which of these were the most

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Who actually controls America right now? kalshi came out with something called the American Power Index (KPOW) and it is a first in class true measure of political control. It blends together the present day distribution of seats with future election outcomes (using

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America spent $4T on the Middle East, here is what China spent $4T on

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How much do you know about Algeria?

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Interesting facts about North Korea It’s not 2026 there, it’s “Juche 115.” They have their own time zone, a 105-story empty “Hotel of Doom,” and wait til you hear about the wigs

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Intersting things you didn’t know about Colombia Colombia contains the only missing section of the Pan-American Highway. Colombia has more bird species than any country on Earth. Colombia produces almost all the world’s emeralds

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If you want to level yourself up, Network School is one of the best places to be in the world right now in my opinion Leave a comment if you’re interested and I’ll send you a guide with more information as well as my invitation that will improve your chances of approval and

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Most people don’t realize how long Vietnam actually is

It stretches from Michigan all the way to Florida!

That’s why the country has:
• Completely different climates north to south
• Massive regional food differences
• Distinct accents and cultures

North Vietnam has a four seasons while South Vietnam experiences a warm tropical climate year-round

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@narendramodi https://t.co/rylwGOPMKX

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India has a temperature problem The other day 50/50 of the worlds hottest cities were in India Temperatures soaring past 46-48°C (115°F+) And what’s crazy is India has a low percentage of households with AC. What should India do?

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I just found junglithenomad : a nomad village in India where you can’t just book - you have to apply. Like Network School, they filter for a certain type: digital nomads, artists, entrepeneurs & nature lovers who want to thrive in a community where wifi meets wildlife 🌴

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Vietnam's unicorns:

VNG (2014): gaming/tech
VNLIFE / VNPay (2019): fintech
MoMo (2021): fintech, ~30M+ users
Sky Mavis (2021): Axie Infinity, blockchain gaming
Tiki (2022) : e-commerce

All HCMC or Hanoi.

When is Da Nang getting its first unicorn?