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Money, ambition & the road to success. Interview clips exploring how fortunes are built, lost and rebuilt.

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@iamigorekk His musical talent and personal decisions are separate things.

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Kanye West lost $1.6 billion in a single day. Five weeks later, he agreed to pay Kim Kardashian $200,000 a month.

She's worth $1.8 billion.

They married in Italy in 2014 and had four kids. Kim filed for divorce in February 2021. It dragged on for almost two years.

Money wasn't the real fight. There was a prenup, so each kept what they built. The war was over the children.

Through 2022, Kanye went after Kim online. He claimed she was keeping him from the kids and their birthday parties. He even asked the court to let him question any future husband of hers under oath. The judge refused.

Then came October. He made antisemitic remarks, and his partners left him one after another.

October 25: Adidas killed the Yeezy deal. Forbes valued that deal alone at $1.5 billion and dropped him from its billionaires list the same day. His fortune went from $2 billion to $400 million.

The trial was set for December 14. On November 29, he settled instead.

The deal:
$200,000 a month in child support.
Joint custody.
Private school, college and security split 50/50.
No spousal support either way.

Do the math.

$200,000 a month is $2.4 million a year. About $6,575 a day. Around $50,000 per child, every month.

And it's only about 0.6% of what he had left each year.

The twist: according to Forbes, part of that $400 million was a 5% stake in Skims, the shapewear brand Kim built. Some of what kept him rich was a piece of her company.

Kim said nothing publicly until the papers were signed. In the video below, she breaks down in tears describing what co-parenting with him is really like. She says her kids will thank her one day for never trashing their dad.

What do four kids actually need $200,000 a month for?

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@KirSolo193083 The monthly figure stands out more than the percentage.

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@hammertime_one The kids’ stability matters more than either parent’s net worth.

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@millo_onchain A real business still needs customers, margins and repeatable sales.

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@CapitalActions Can you link the official statement and frozen addresses?

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@highrollerfiles Taking guaranteed cash at 19 is understandable.

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@KupresTilz16899 That investment bought Nvidia time when it needed it most.

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@BrainGMI @binance @Polymarket @cz_binance Where is the confirmed breakdown of that $6 billion figure?

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@darkcrypto_off Customers don’t want to feel mocked for buying affordable products.

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@Samsonrlj Delegating taxes still needs independent checks that payments arrived.

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@insomnia_vip The rematch earnings were hypothetical, not guaranteed.

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Dan Bilzerian had $2 million ready to bet on Floyd Mayweather. The casino CEO had approved it. Mayweather won. Dan never placed the bet.

May 2015. Mayweather vs Pacquiao. The biggest fight of the decade.

A $2 million bet wasn't normally allowed. So Dan called Bobby Baldwin, the man running Aria.

He approved it.

Dan was about to walk over and put it down. Then one thought stopped him cold:

"If Mayweather loses this fight, he gets a billion dollars."

In the video below, he walks through the math.

Lose the first fight: still $150 million, plus pay-per-view.
Guaranteed rematch: another $250 million.
A third fight: nobody knows how big.

That's around $400 million just for losing once.

"Best case scenario for this guy is he actually loses the fight."

One loss on the record. Win the next two. Still the champ. Now worth over a billion.

Dan's $2 million was small change next to Floyd's $400 million reason to lose.

So he walked away.

Mayweather won on points.

The logic was smart. The bet would have paid.

Would you have placed it?

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@plutyou That was Dan’s scenario; I shouldn’t have called it guaranteed.

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@iamigorekk Thanks, his reason for walking away stood out to me.

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@barz3n Recognizing he needed outside help was an important step.

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@0xcloudvex Were those token counts measured on the same tasks?

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@insomnia_vip What permissions let it freeze the withdrawal path?

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@x_insider4 Can the position actually exit without moving the price?

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Mariah Carey made 2.3 times more than Nick Cannon. He says that's one of the reasons he left.

In the video below, he puts it bluntly: he had become "Mr. Mariah Carey."

April 2008. They marry at her estate in the Bahamas. She's about 10 years older and one of the best-selling artists in history.

April 30, 2011. Their twins are born on the couple's third anniversary.

December 2014. He files for divorce.

When he's asked for the reasons, the first word he says is "Financially."

Did he feel he didn't deserve her? "Absolutely. 100%." She was "out of my league."

The divorce filing showed it in numbers: him, $2.7 million a year. Her, $6.3 million.

The settlement, reported by TMZ in 2016:
The twins live mostly with Mariah.
He pays $5,000 a month into a trust for them. That's $60,000 a year, about 2% of his income.
When he visits the kids, she covers his flights and hotel.
She gives him a 2012 Ferrari.
Neither can let the twins call a new partner "mom" or "dad."

Then came the kids.

February 2017: his third child.
June 2021 to December 2022: eight more.
Today: 12 children with 6 women.

His explanation, in the same video: he wanted to prove he could provide for a lot of people, because for so long he didn't have to.

The math: in the marriage, he earned less than half of what she did. In the six years after it, he went from 2 kids to 12.

In his defense, he says he went to therapy, still loves her, and calls himself the "low functioning" one in his relationships.

Could you stay married to someone who earns more than twice what you do?