Your Own Pile
Ariel Serber
Advocate for financial education, literacy, and independence. Advisory solutions and problem solving for businesses; risk management, business planning, building brand equity, capital raising and more.
You really need to be watching Succession, and you really, really need to see the last 10 minutes of the season 3 finale - I won't spoil it here but the lesson is clear - to win you need to make your own pile.
There's a real ruthlessness there - winning means others lose, it's war, you cannot have it all - it's your interest against all others, all the time.
Sounds incredibly tiring but maybe that's why only the outlier of all outliers is rewarded with incalculable wealth - and culture is a reflection of our reality.
Which is why it makes total sense that Elon Musk was named Time's Person of the Year - he's building and doing things noone really thought possible and he's also like the entire internet came to life, with all its benefits and drawbacks.
Whatever you may think of him, he has to be a part of the story that will be told of our time and the impact it has on the next couple decades.
It's incredible to think about the kind of opportunities that opened up (only in America!) and what we can all accomplish; maybe without the huge tradeoffs that it takes to be the ultimate winner. What is it winning exactly anyway?
Also only in America -
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Trends for 2022 - one of my theses is that finance and banking and money are all changing and evolving and we need to be on top of it - for our own knowledge and to spot opportunities - both for our own work and investments.
We also have to learn how to see red flags- if a life sciences company has no life sciences investors and a board made up of old generals and long-retired government officials, you're in red country. Just because a company has a good story with excellent storytellers doesn't mean it's real.
The Cult of We was one of two great books on Wework's collapse - have a listen to this interview with one of the authors -
No one source or advisor is going to have all the answers - be diligent, be careful, be smart - don't begrudge or be jealous of success, learn some lessons and apply it to your own lifebut not at the expense of your values and soul.