Why and What I will do as a Trillionaire
Path of a Trillionaire — Forward: Setting the stage
I want to be a multi-trillionaire.
And I will document my entire journey to get there.
(or as much of it as I possibly can)
I recently found out about Gary Vaynerchuk and *really* LOVE basically everything he says… but his talk on ‘Document. Dont create’ especially struck a chord with me…
I’ve been procrastinating and vacillating and thinking on what to do and how to do it… On whether it will be good or of value or whatever…
I was debating with myself on what is the best way to share my ambitions… whats the best way to go about making money doing what I love… what exactly is the practical version of my passion… Should I focus on creating right now? Should I do PM or Dev or Sales? Should I wait to start a YouTube? An Instagram? Should I do this … should I do that? How do I do this and that? When … where.. what… why?…… SO many questions and excuses and ponderings with very little action.
But as I started internalizing Gary’s NO BS Hustle… all Im thinking now is
Fuck it … Imma do it all…
So that is what I am doing… Experimenting and practicing and trying everything till I find what really works for me.
This is not throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks… More like I'm executing on a bunch of ideas I’ve had and vetted for a long time now…
Im simply moving, with no excuses or thoughts as to why I would have to stop.
I am creating. I am documenting. I am doing.
Right here, right now… I want to make a non-fancy introduction to my journey.
I’ve known for as long as I can remember that I am going to do big things in the world; that I want to change the world… drastically… for the better…
Since 3rd grade, precisely…
Before then, I was an arrogant prick who just thought he was smarter than everyone else.
I think it was my then-new passion for hovercars that humbled me… while at the same time blowing my ambition to the stratosphere.
Im not sure why or how… all I remember is an intense desire to fly… to rise above the hole I felt my family was in. All cumulated into a seemingly random annoyance with modern-day vehicles.
I remember absolutely HATING the fact that my parents and my family were stuck … that we couldn't do this or that because we didnt have enough money… and specifically because our car kept failing, or we couldn't get gas…. I know, seems … trite? But it was terribly stressful for lil ole me at that time, who couldn't really make friends because it seemed like everyone lived somewhere else… who couldnt participate in after school activities or experience much of the world beyond his yard… all because he was stuck.
That feeling only compounded as I grew up… as I read books and imagined what a better future would look like…
When I say read books… I mean for real. I remember being the only kid walking the hallways with a that big ole Harry Potter book that looked bigger than my head… I remember reading all the more interesting books in the library… and tallying it up on those AR test logs to realize that I easily read over 100 books during the school year alone. The few times I was able to go to the library during the summer, I read even more…
As high school came around, I realized school itself was easy for me. I enjoyed being a student…
But I wasn't… am not, just any ole nerd….
I like to communicate with all sorts of people…
I like to simplify complex ideas and share inspiring ideas and present big ideas in practical ways… I always had ‘cool’ ideas.
I was never scared to tell people my ambitions either. I often would sneak in a ‘what I would do if I could take over the world’ type scenario in one way or another… always would ‘awe’ people with unnecessarily robust presentations…
I suppose that's why people said I’d be President one day… but all I could think about, when they said that, was how cool and useful it would be to have as much money as Bill Gates… to have created technology that changed the very habits and abilities of humanity…
I knew all about government… how inadequate and unfair it was… why else would my folks and my whole community be practically forced, by way of socio-political environment, to be stuck in financial poverty?
IDK how to condense all I’ve experienced at this point into this article.
IDK how to convey the essence of my mindset at that point in time… of my predicament and that of the people around me…
But suffice to say I was jaded….
I had experienced poverty… we (a family of 8) were living with another family (of 6) because we got evicted out of our last two houses due to rent hikes in a span of 4 years for goodness sake…Yes, I was fortunate to not be homeless… but by the time I was a Sophomore, I knew what poverty was all about already. To go without running water, or electricity, much less internet or cable or whatever for days, or even weeks, on end for quite a few times…
So I was very much disillusioned and abundantly clear on the uselessness of government and the brokenness of the current system…
Anyways… I suppose it was my hard upbringing that helped me strive for so much more.
I just knew I was going to change the world… I couldn't really visualize any other life. When people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up… I always knew exactly what I wanted to do… I just had no way of putting a name to it… so I would say an engineer, an architect, a philanthropist… an inventor. Then I found out about entrepreneurs… so I figured that was it. IDK about that now. It doesnt feel like the path I want to walk on… I just want to figure how to execute on the big ideas I cant live a single day without having.
I always knew I wanted to create something big… something huge… and then take what I learned during the execution to build something even bigger.
At first I thought it was going to be through inventing Hovercars… but eventually it expanded into creating futuristic cities and technology… products and services that would inspire people to do better by design… now its grown and matured into being able to ideate and execute on things that will empower people to be their best selves; no matter their environment, circumstance, or issues…
I wrote as much over a year ago:
It is with this goal in mind, and with this ambition of putting a dent in the universe… that I made my declaration that I will become the world’s first Trillionaire… a multi-trillionaire.
I want to say in 10 or 20 years… I just want to get there before I am 40.
‘Why 40? Thats still young…’, you may be thinking, and you’d be right.
Gary Vee works WAY harder than I am pretty sure I am even able (much less want to) work… And he’s only aiming for a few billion.
What the hell makes me so crazy as to think I can make a Trillion by 40?
For one, I will work smarter than Gary… not to say that he doesnt work smart. I just think I can work just as Smart as he works Hard.
Hear me out!…
(or dont… doesn’t really matter. This whole documenting thing is for my own humor as well as to possibly help out any other crazy ambitious people out there…)
But here’s why I think I can work smarter:
Magnanimous Aggregate Knowledge Empowerment.
Opportunistic Technological Human Economic Revolution Systems.
Mutually Assured Distribution.
Did you get it?!?! HAHAHAHA!!!!
Success is the best revenge, the best way to stick it to all the doubters and haters… to destroy the systems I grew up feeling oppressed under, I must build a better system.
To do that… I cant be afraid to step on toes…
My mommy always said I will do great things in the world… ;)
But FRFR though…
One must first understand that I am not going to be a Trillionaire because it sounds like a lot of money…and definitely not because I am good at making money… oh no… I actually am just using that as an easy metric to gauge where I am at/will be in life.
I want to change the world, I want to help move us, humanity, on to a better system of economics/politics… and that will require moving on from a monetary system… that means less fighting about capitalism vs socialism… left vs right… religion vs atheism… and a focus on actual human progress and individual empowerment.
That means I will need to make other people wealthy in such a way that makes me wealthy too…
To use Gary’s terms…
Im going to build the tallest building in town, not by knocking others down, but by just building a better building.
But I want to go beyond that. I want to build the biggest, tallest building by helping everyone build super big buildings … that just so happens to add up to my super duper Epic building! :D
My ‘plan’ is to create killer products and services, open source them to create a gold rush… then to sell the tools of that gold rush… rinse and repeat.
I want to have a vested interested in ensuring poverty is no longer a problem for half the globe… I wont be giving away money, but building new systems in which are structured around empowering people to live, rather than survive. To enjoy life.
I want to amass so much money in both myself and all the people that come up with me, that we will break the system. We will have such a dope network, that we wont even need money to get most things done.
I want to abolish money. By making ‘too much’ money.
I respect money… I understand that it is the system of measuring and transferring value.
I simply do not think money will help us move on to the next step in humanity. It has gotten us far…
But as any serially successful person knows:
Just like we had to move on from hunting and gathering, then from bartering; we need to move on from this thousand year system of centralized currency.
In order to prove my conjecture right about money not being necessary, or even being a barrier to a better society, I have (and want) to literally build the best buildings in town. In fact, I want to build the best Towns in town! Whole new city/states that will be the best thing humanity has ever seen!
Sure I could probably do so with a couple billion… but having a trillion dollars would mean, not only have I truly mastered the current system, but possibly broke the system… because I highly doubt a person like me is ‘supposed’ to be able to to do something like that… to make money without actually being an entrepreneur, or an inventor, or an investor, or whatever… just a hybrid bastard… An Ideamachine.
I will not be able to make a trillion dollars without bringing a huge wave of people with me…. I won't be able to meet my goal without helping millions of people to become wealthy themselves…
SO, by the time I get the Trillionare mark on my Journey… I will have created a grand community to populate my city/state…. And I will even be able to create several all around the globe to really test my thesis.
Granted, this is not just ‘my’ idea… this is how I imagine something like The Venus Project will come into fruition… and whatever other non-monetary based systems people will have.
I also want to have hundreds upon thousands of open-source inventions and innovations out in the world…
I want to be the type of person that inspires through creativity…
I want to be a technological magician.
Whose ‘job’ it is to invent things as whimsically as they do in Meet the Robinsons… or Dexter’s Laboratory… perhaps unrealistic… ?
I dont know… I dont think so… and I dont care… I’m going to make it happen.
I’m going to make Magick realistic.
We are living in an age where people can start a company 10 to 100 times easier than they could just 20 years ago… I think it's reasonable to think that it would be incredibly easy to create just about anything via 3d printers and iterate through next-gen CAD, and validate in the simulated market…
In fact, that is how I am ‘starting’ my path…this is where I am, and have at on my path now…
Before, when I was obsessed with creating hovercars for 10 years, I was hurt because I couldn't use computers to model them.. to show people how it might work… and I wasn't a math/engineering genius or even good at tinkering to make prototypes… perhaps I wasn't resourceful enough.. all I know is that these were barriers I failed to overcome.
I want to remove those barriers completely… or at least lower them so that one could simply walk over em should one be so inclined.
Hence why I came up with Flubbi… the future of CAD, 3D sculpting, and creativity programs… built with the ulterior motive of fighting depression and making it easier to enter/catalyze the creative economy.
From Flubbi, I will go into game dev, to create the biggest MMO game(s) ever, that will also be able to simulate real life systems (inventions, political ideologies, economic systems, etc). Through this game, I will help bring the internet to the next level.
3D web… Web 3.0… a more mature and immersive internet… whatever you want to call it… this will help visualize, connect, and distribute resources. It will also help to empower most of the world out of poverty. Concurrently, it will come along with the proliferation of practical IoTs and AR…
At this point, the average person will be able to come up with an idea, and instead of thinking about how or why they cant execute on the idea… they’d just share/create it online…where they can easily make it happen. They can iterate on it incredibly quickly, and have a bunch of people try it out; all in a matter of weeks to thus get ‘immediate’ feedback, and therefore create amazing products or services with very little to no overhead.
This will mark my ability to invent the thousands of ideas I’ve ideated thus far. I believe it is here where I will begin to create new learning institutions and housing units where people (especially disadvantaged) can actually easily get into a supportive environment that helps to become self aware and empowered through creating… the only ‘rent/tuition’ would be to create and/or document your personal journey on a regular basis.
It gets hazy around here…
But eventually I will be able to create city/states (that have already been simulated and even populated in VR worlds). These new societies would be meant to ‘break’ the old systems by making them obsolete.
I already have a lot of plans for this ‘end-state’…. but the reason I want to be a trillionaire by 40 is precisely so that I can then spend the next 20 or so years completely focused on this.
I have always had a problem with ambition… I dont know how to think small… I dont know how to stop thinking bigger…
And so even though this will be my focus, I will already be setting up my next goal to get humanity not just to Mars like Elon is doing (so dope!) but getting us beyond this solar system!
By the time Im 80… I want to be building ‘real’ spaceships… and then space cities! And finally, intergenerational Star Ships that can comfortably host 100,000 people beyond our infinitesimally small corner of the galaxy.
Im not sure if I will take advantage of the life-extension techniques at the point, for which I would use the extra years to really drive us beyond our nursery….
But yeah… thats basically IT.
That is the stage on which I am stepping.
The path on which I am venturing…
The #PathofaTrillionaire!!
Come along for the journey!
