- I know tens of thousands of people,
and I know thousands of people extremely well,
and I know hundreds of people deeply well.
There is no correlation between how much money
someone makes and their level of happiness.
I have friends who make $47,000 a year,
and they're the happiest people I know.
Their work-life balance is on point,
they're part of two soccer teams,
they play video games,
they watch every show they want,
they take two vacations that they scrap together,
and they're freaking happy as well.
And I know tons of people who I grew up with
in the Silicon Valley boom who have hundreds
of millions of dollars in their bank account
and are as miserable and as lonely
and as broken as you'll ever see,
so I implore all of you to please reverse engineer
and figure out who you are,
and figure out what level of monetizing and stuff you need,
and what level of creativity you need.
I promise you one thing,
one thing that will catch you very off-guard.
I should be way more rich.
I leave money on the table every day.
I've left ungodly amounts of money on the table.
I spend tons of time sending DMs
and engaging with people and meeting people randomly
and not cashing in.
I actually believe the statement I'm about to make.
I think that I love the journey and the game
of entrepreneurship so much
that I have subconsciously sabotaged my financial upside
to make sure I can play this a little longer,
'cause I fear if the numbers keep getting too big,
eventually, it will take the fun out of it.
When you are lucky enough like I am
to actually do something that you love so much,
do something that puts pressure against the one thing
you care about besides it,
which is the time I spend with my family.
My family's my whole life,
and being this and doing this
is the only thing that cuts into that.
I couldn't breathe if I wasn't an entrepreneur.
I didn't breathe when I wasn't an entrepreneur.
That's the reason I got D's and F's in school.
'Cause I just couldn't be me,
and I'm not capable of that.
And so, I think being here excites me
because I think coming to not L.A., San Francisco,
New York, London, is always more fun for me.
It always feels a little more practical.
It always feels like there's a little bit more
chips on the shoulder, which is what I have.
But I wanna remind everybody,
just 'cause you didn't grow up with a trust fund,
just 'cause you don't live in Silicon Valley,
the market doesn't care.
If you're good enough, you will win,
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