Anyone can do the same — I have seen it so many times — people making good investments but getting poorer. Instead of getting richer, their investments make them spend more money. So, in the end, it was a loss and not a profit. You have to understand that if it doesn’t bring money into your…

A life lesson in entrepreneurship — Here comes the curse of using personal branding to propel large companies. The trend has been growing significantly in recent years. Telsa’s valuation won’t be what it is without Elon Musk at the helm. But feeling the brunt of that directly is Bumble, as Whitney Wolfe Herd steps down as…

And why they stay in the shadows — There are five levels of entrepreneurship in the global business world today. The first level is bootstrapping — where your money to run the business, usually in a very small and limited way. …

It is leading the world into disaster — I was wondering why the world was in such a huge economic mess. That led me into the rabbit hole of studying economic theory. And then I realized that the world follows the Keynes economic theory. This made everything clear. That economic theory is leading to an economic disaster. Let…

Was Wolfe Herd quietly ousted? — Shares of Bumble have sunk more than 80% since the IPO in 2021. I remembered the Bumble IPO days when everyone hailed Whitney Wolfe Herd as the youngest self-made billionaire. Her net worth has since fallen drastically. My concern here is why leave the CEO job now? Economic Implications This is arguably…

The iPhone is not really the villain here — On the surface, things look good with the fourth quarter fiscal year Apple report. This included sales and numbers for July, August, and September 2023. And you can recall that the iPhone 15 was launched in September. So, there are some early iPhone 15 sales captured there. However, if you…

There are better ways to monetize WhatsApp — I haven’t met someone who likes the new WhatsApp update. Everybody I know hates it. The only difference is that they are too invested in the app to quit it over some petty features. And I understand Meta is battling for their survival (and online supremacy) here. …

And how to take advantage — If you subscribed to my new Rich Culture newsletter, you would have picked up information the exact moment the Bitcoin bull phase started. Every one of my subscribers got this information in their email inbox. And Bitcoin was at $27k then. If you want to ride this bull wave, it’s…

Why you should not let your lack of qualifications stop you — I was idly scrolling Instagram one day and came across this short clip of an interview. I could recognize the speaker; she was wearing those iconic black-framed glasses of hers. But something she said specifically stuck to me that day and I haven’t forgotten it. …