We embark on an analysis of two thriving marketplaces, Opensea and Looksrare. Through the lens of various metrics, we unravel the story of these digital landscapes, exploring their performance, user engagement, and transaction dynamics from this year 2023.
Alex Hormozi says a trader made $100,000,000 and still couldn’t sleep at night
“If you’re so good at trading, why should I listen to you? Well, I have $100 million in verified earnings from trading. I said okay, then why are you selling courses instead of just making trades?”
“He says, I want to impact people. I said no you don’t, dude. Tell me the truth, I can only help you if you tell me the truth”
“Eventually he breaks, I couldn’t sleep. I lost weight. The stress, trading ruined my life. I couldn’t find anyone to date because I had to trade 24 hours a day. It ruined my health”
“My dad died at 50, and I saw myself going down the same path”
“That’s the truth. So your marketing should say, trading ruined my life and it’s also the only thing I’m good at. So if you want to make enough money to ruin your life, I can show you how I did it”
IF YOU DIED TOMORROW, YOUR FAMILY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ACCESS A SINGLE THING YOU OWN DIGITALLY.
BANK ACCOUNTS. PASSWORDS. CLOUD STORAGE. ALL OF IT PERMANENTLY LOCKED AWAY.
HERE'S HOW TO FIX IT IN 30 MINUTES:
TE ACABAN DE ROBAR EL IPHONE.
El ladrón lo apagó al instante.
En la app "Buscar" ves que está desconectado.
Tus cuentas del banco, tus fotos privadas, toda tu vida... en sus manos.
Ese móvil solo será un ladrillo si activaste estos 3 AJUSTES: 👇
A Stanford Business School dropout took a call from a college friend in 1980 and walked into Microsoft as a $50,000-a-year business manager. He negotiated his way to 8% of the company. That 8% now pays $303 million every quarter. He hasn't worked there in 12 years.
That $303 million is Microsoft's quarterly dividend, a cash payment the company sends to everyone who owns its shares. Ballmer owns about 4.5% of the entire company. That stake is worth roughly $134 billion today and generates $1.2 billion a year, which works out to $3.3 million a day, just for sitting there.
When Ballmer joined in 1980, he didn't own a single share. His deal was a $50,000 salary plus 10% of whatever profit he helped bring in. Microsoft grew so fast that his cut became a financial problem. The company needed to fix it.
In 1981, when Microsoft officially became a corporation, Ballmer swapped the profit deal for actual ownership in the company. He asked for 8%. Paul Allen, one of Microsoft's two founders, refused to go above 5%. Gates stepped in, pulled 3% from his own stake, and gave it to Ballmer. When Microsoft went public in 1986, Gates owned 45%, Allen owned 25%, and Ballmer owned 8%, worth about $62 million on day one.
Ballmer's 8% shrank over the years to about 4.5% as Microsoft sold new shares to grow the business. But the company's total value went from $780 million in 1986 to roughly $3 trillion today, about 4,000 times bigger.
In 2014, Ballmer spent $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team. He didn't sell a single Microsoft share to fund it. He still holds every share he had the day he walked out of the company.
Every other person worth over $100 billion on earth built their fortune by starting a company. Jeff Bezos built Amazon. Elon Musk built SpaceX. Ballmer answered a phone call from a college friend.
Gates gave up 3% of his own company to get Ballmer in the door. After decades of giving his money away to charity, Gates is now worth roughly $104 billion. Ballmer's Microsoft shares alone are worth about $134 billion. The man Gates hired to be his assistant now has more money than the man who hired him.
As a doctor I’ve seen crazy stuff happen sha, this evening I had a pregnant lady, she’s Nigerian Ghanaian, heavy with triplets and laboring for the past 18 hours to no avail…
Immediately Mexico scored South Africa, all 3 babies came out & shouted “Goge Africaaaa” in unison😭
Nigeria sells raw cocoa at $8,000 a tonne. Processed into butter it earns $48,000. Made into chocolate it earns $240,000. 30 times the money, yet Nigeria is still choosing $8,000.
Saw a website content writing job on Upwork. You know what I did instead of sending a generic proposal?
I took the job description, fed it to Grok, and asked it to create a full website layout for a hypothetical company targeting the same audience and addressing their key pain points and optimized for AI/search visibility.
Then I took that structure to Claude, built out the entire website (even used Render MCP for a slick 3D section), and deployed it live on Netlify in no time.
Instead of talking salary or making empty promises, I applied with the actual live website and simply asked the client
“What do you think I should add or remove?”
Landed the gig in less than 30 minutes. A full website content writing gig. All done in less than 10 minutes with grok and Claude. Infinite AI money glitch
Mr. Beast proved that they don't want institutions or a foundational system on which to build civilization. He dug simple wells in water starved areas. The locals then proceeded to blame him personally because he wasn't coming back to maintain them.
POV: it’s 2041 and nigeria has a better president, 1 dollar= 1 naira, garri is N50, bolapsd is 2k, OS is N750 and all bandits retire to become musicians.