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What are the biggest lessons learned from investors and how can individual investors?
Oh man, we've been here all day. What was your biggest lesson?
I'll start with you, like the biggest lesson, biggest takeaway that had like the most impact on you from investing.
I mean, so, I mean we're just in general, it's always the power networking, like you know, as far as so all right, So Steve Harvey has never met fifty cent before. I don't think they haven't really chocolate and so they connected for the first time and then they was talking about business like they was talking literally like Steve Harby was telling them, like, you need.
To do this, you need to do this.
We can work together on that.
So just seeing that first hand, that's at the highest level possible. But it just reinforces the theory that like they obviously have ways to get in touch with each other. They follow each other on Instagram, they can shoot each other at DM there's nothing like an in person. The in person within fifteen minutes, they talking about doing business
together for twenty years. They've known of each other. Crazy, they have close friends, right, they could have they could have done this twenty year, but it just wasn't you know, we're not we're not connected.
And can we talk about writing ironm at Foster's that as well? For sure?
That the rights, That's what I'm saying. So and then yeah, the good energy, so that for sure. And then you know, as far as panels, but what I could you know, I don't really get to see a lot of the best because I'm behind the stage. But man, your your panel, your segment.
Got a lot of great feedback.
Artificial intelligence X shot to her at least like five ten people will hit me like yo, who's this I need to meet this person like she's super dope, she's super knowledgeable. That got great feedback Home Buyers Workshop. Yes, that is something that a lot of people I think received a lot of value in. I can go on and on student loans whatever. So as far as like I look at it, like, okay, there's the relationship aspect of it, which that's one thing meeting people.
Can we say relationships are the biggest asset that no one talks about the values proper.
For sure, that's gonna be determining fact. So the relationship, the relationship aspect for sure. Then from the informational aspect, that really just depends on what you were interested in and what you you know, went to right because some people didn't go to every everything.
That's okay, but you have to get the.
Individual value from there, but also from just looking at it from a scale standpoint and seeing all the businesses in the Vendom marketplace. And Tye actually Todd Davis had said, so, Ti Davis, that's how that's how a camera guy shout to Tie and he asked he said he was gonna make a video because he was like, you know, top, you see us you're going to see tie. He's around
us all the time. And he was like he was he was walking through the Vendom market place to capture content on one day and he was like he walked through like six rows of booths and he was like nobody.
Like tried to sell him.
Like they didn't.
They didn't try to, Like he was like he thought that that was a mistake because they wasn't being aggressive enough.
And he was like, Yo, they don't even know who I am, you know what I'm saying, Like like, yo, but.
You know I might want to buy a product, or I might want to, you know, tell you tell the guys about your product, Like this is dope.
He was like they they was just looking at me waiting for me to come to them.
Doesn't work like that.
And he's like, yo, I'm not just gonna go out of my way and just go to you. Like nine times out of ten.
That's the same.
The only person to tell me something was Angel Well with the glasses, you gotta be that hey.
She's like, hey, you want it?
I didn't even think of Like obviously, when we walk into space, it's like people want us to come to but like, yeah, I mean I would imagine that what happened to and some of the guys that they it's like all these guys in there. But yeah, we always tell people it's the surrounding people. You got to attack the periminal. If you know, to takes the pictures of us and he's walking, I gotta get them. You see b you know he's with us. You got you see Pierre,
you see that. You gotta go get them because they can relay a message to it.
Absolutely.
But then I was also very inSpot to a lot of young people. I mean, we had the kids from our community that came. Then there was kids from the Bronx that came. There was another group of kids from the Bronx that came that just I didn't even wasn't aware of them.
They just randomly stopped me in the hallway and that was dope. That was a dope moment. There was a lot of young.
People there with like older chaperone shots to all the chaperones and group leaders that took kids there. But that was dope to I met some college kids, some kids that just graduated from college that were there. So it was a lot of young young people, like teenagers, early twenties.
That was there for sure.
But I think the biggest takeaway for me whenever going to something like invest Fest, which there really is nothing like invest Fest, but whenever going to like that environment, the biggest takeaway is did I leave with three people that I could connect with? Ill keep saying that because it's the relationships is always the most important aspect you're going to get the information. Information is powerful, but if you have to learn and some peoples like, well how do I network with people?
You have to walk up to them.
And I actually did do a whole talk on this for Eyo University. If you're interested, maybe all ship from Mark is in Toronto. Yeah, so, but it's it's not as complicated as you think. You just got to, you know, get out of your comfort zone and just find ways to just network and meet people because that in person experience very rare. You're gonna be around twenty thousand people
that's only there for business. They're not there at the party, they're not there that you know, they only there for business. So that is always going to be the takeaway from me.
Man.
But I feel like a lot of people just did meet a lot of great people from what I've been hearing and then seeing and it was a lot of international people from Africa, people from Canada. Toronto was up there, heavy from London.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, fact fact London was in there.
Definitely there. That's a fact.
Few few things that I just observed.
Did you connect with three?
Because I think even now at this level, they probably think, oh, we must know everybody.
There's nobody be me connecting. Did you? Did you? Yeah?
I mean with a bunch of.
People, right, a million people? Yeah, for sure.
But then it's also about foster fostering even strong relationships and the people that you know absolutely all right, you know, all right, let's do this. You're talking to whoever it could be to be like yeah, you know, I haven't seen him in a while, Like it's the first time I'm seeing you. Let's talk like that's that's part of it too, Like you might not you might not see the person all the time. You get a chance to beat them, it's like, all right, let's I haven't seen
you in four months. Let's build like, let's really figure this thing out so we can do something together. That's crazy, Like I was going to start there, but you kind of ended it with it was. It felt like this is like a reunion.
Now.
Absolutely there's people like, yo, this is my third one. I'm like, remember, of course, I remember you. We took the picture people show. I remember somebody was showing us the braces that they have from each of that. I'm like, this feels like a reunion where we're seeing people, We're
seeing their development, We're seeing their growth even internally. Like I was telling, I'm watching Pierre developed from the kids who we used to have on the basketball team in the sixth grade to now somebody that's handling the logistics to making sure everybody's good like good like his development abs development over the past four years when he started working Earn Your Leisure to now it was like the CEO over this company and his brand and everything he
does on the vestor has that growth. But community, even from the people that were there, was like I think that was what really stuck out to me. I had this encounter with this young man and he came up to me. He was like, Troy, I want to tell you the story. Can you stop for like two minutes. I'm like, of course, I'm gonna stop, but let me hear the story.
He said.
I brought this homeless gentleman in. He was standing outside. He asked me what was going on. I said, you got to come in. They didn't let even get a brace thatt. I bought him a ticket. I said, that's great, man, I appreciate that. He said, but let me tell you what happened. When he came into the marketplace. He said, I went around to vendors that had clothing, and each vendor put a package of clothing together and they gave
him clothes. Then I got a couple of people to donate money, and he went to the food village and had vouchers to eat. And I'm like, yo, that's community. I had another gentlemen, this is crazy teenager, and that energy from the youth was there.
He was like, look I was.
I was nineteen years old. I was trying to get my ticket. I was trying to save it up to it. I trying to do a payment plan. I couldn't do it, but I said I need to be in this building. And I'm like, all right, So what happened? He's like, look, I signed up for the volunteer list. I figured the best thing I could do is help the volunteer was was so long I was on the wait list. I just started showing up and I just started picking up garbage.
I started picking up collage, and I kept going and I finally He's like I walked in and they saw me. They're like, what are you doing here, young man? He's like, I'm trying to volunteer. They brought him to the volunteer booth. He got a T shirt to volunteer. His first assignment. He was like, I need you to get some speakers from their cars to the speak a lounge. First person you can get is Van Jones.
And listen, I'm gonna say this too for all y'all who walk past Van to VIP. Now, y'all don't want no money.
Here's the best what.
Van likes the kids so much. He gives him his phone number, his email. He wants to stay in contact with him. He said, look, while I'm here at that's really was he there?
Oh?
He was early, he was early, he was early.
Yeah, he liked him so much. He said, I want you to stay with me for the whole day. While I'm here, you stay with me. He then walked around with him, then told everybody how great of a young man this dude was he got to meet everybody?
Right. The next day is still volunteering. He goes he now he's with OG.
Shout out to the Og family, Shout out to Trav Fear credible panel. He's like, yo, I just I got I didn't get to take He's telling the story. Shout out to Dennis. Dennis is like, yo, you want to meet the guys. He was like, you know, I would love to. The first thing I run into is Dennis and the young man and he tells me the story and I'm like, that's community right, Like he had no ticket, volunteer, got his way up and what got to me to tell us? Like, you know, y'all have changed my life
with information. I was just so proud to hear his story. But that's what it's about. I mean, there's so many of these community stories. We had a woman who a vender was selling waste beads. Yeah, yeah, not only is she making a lot of money in the drandom market from waste beads, but she's giving it back to communities in Africa. Like, there's so many these community stories that obviously the main stage is a lot of information obviously
is valuable and everybody that's up there. But there's so many of these stories and so much community that's happening. I got like almost emotional thinking about it, like, Yo, this is this is what it's about. This is what community looks like. This is what coming together looks like. This is what working together looks like. This is what bond bonds.
Right.
Yeah, so yeah it felt like that reunion field, but it felt like community too.
Yeah, it was amazing.
One thing I picked up on the bigger or wealth theater person, the kinder they are, I notice is always the middlemen who act like they're the start to show. Like don people's got off stage and say great, hey, gret job. He's like, I'm gonna stay here and watch you. If you need anything, let me help you, like any advice, Like just do. I'm like, it's like, I watch your stuff do. I'm like, damn, I.
Mean, I know he's been on the show, but he knew information I've covered. He went over in video. He was like, how let you know? So just to see his curiosity was like, damn, this is time special, dude.
The interview with fifty was amazing for a couple of points, even though him and Puff had their battles for a long period of time. It tells you how serious that situation is. When even now fifty won't say nothing bad about Puff, it tells you, like he talked about it, like listen, I was paying a company this. They were tacking on double what they took six million dollars from him.
But so now if you try and sue, I'm going to defame your name and ruin your career and calling it that's scary as hell.
They got it some day, I know, y'all tell the four story.
That's scary to be like, Okay, you took thirty million dollars from me, but if I sue.
You're going to ruin my entire legacy. Yeah, that's insane.
And then I think just the power of like connecting with the people. You know, I love being amongst the people and shaking hand and kissing babies. But just to see the impact, like it was a lady was like, yo, I joined in twenty twenty, so I started with fifteen thousand at one point two million from your time, Like what like I'm proud of It's.
Like, what do you like? I don't need I don't even need to testimony.
The fact that you just are making the money when you look happy and you're taking care of your family and was able to retire her mom and dad like that. That's absolutely incredible. But to see the old entrepreneurs, like everybody was no drama, co spirits, everyone's networking.
Told entrepreneurs that came, yeah that wasn't speaking, that just came to support. Yeah, a lot of people, uh influencers. Yeah, that I saw that was posted that they were at investments that were not speaking. You can only put so many people. Had a hundred and twenty speaker, so you can only put so many people on the bill.
And that's why when you get on stage, you got to make the most of it, because it's some competition in the bill.
Yeah, it's more and more competitive at the end. And of course out to or everybody that you know the Drip Journeys, everybody that threw it on, you know the Drip Journeys. There's a lot of There was a lot of congress to.
Make them fast. Finally it was longer, but it was the right one.
Appreciate the right one. Appreciate you, Appreciate you. Shout out to Mike b Shout out to Todd Davis for apturing the moment.
Shout at the fashion finally, finally, respect for finally. But nah, man, I saw you. You had to double breasted. You had the double breasted joint, man, you know that was that was dope man. You know, Troy went the silk satin route. Mike did the chronic chronic. Yeah, color and color and color.
Color, color, color like that. Yeah, that's what he did. I'm saying it was one was your favorite, the sugar red, the satin red, like that one.
I was gonna go, I like the gray Man like the Yeah, because he had the the LV loafers on. Yeah yeah, yeah, because when he walked he had it with the jacket, but then it looked flat.
Without the jacket too. So I'm gonna good. I gotta give him that one.
Shot the mic nineteen keys absolutely mad corn rolls. Yeah, sho shot the keys man. We had a great talk at dinner and.
Dinner yeah yeah, he braided his in all the ladies, to all the ladies that yeah, for sure. So it was just dope.
You know, really feels like the Grammys or the s piece. And then also speaking of investments in a highlight moment, as I said, we had fifty and you know, of course fifty was a major inspiration for everything as far as give it to that try and you know, changed the game a few different times, a bunch of times.
So I don't know if he was there, but I actually also said that you were okay, So yeah, you know, and somebody that we met four years ago, yeah, four years ago live yeah, so five twenty twenty five, yeah for sure. So yeah, so you know we uh, you know, we've built Early Legion. We've been doing this. That was a financial advisor. He was educated before we had Early Legion, so it was still in the realm of educating.
Why do you always tell people that because it's a good business lesson in it that you're a financial advisor.
Because some people think, you know, sometimes dropped out people like your houses got qualified to speak, I actually did something even though you don't have to do it for a living.
Yeah but no, no, no, no, you have to level.
But I love when he says it because it talks about purpose of just walking in it, and you know what I mean, like you're doing it just because you feel like that's what you're supposed to be doing. That's a career choice. But sometimes that might be your purpose. Right, So he was already in the world of finance. I was already in education. The fact that this is financial education we have just now just added another layer to the purpose.
And the next layer is we're coming out of a book.
Yes, our first thank you appreciate, our first piece of literature will be released in early twenty twenty five, but you can pre order it now.
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Great title.
I appreciate it. And yeah, man, you know this is you know, we just wanted to eventually we had to write a book.
But I feel like this is something that we can just just add the value that it can be documented in time and hopefully stand the test of time and be one of the books that you know, we talk about Who Stole My Cheese? And Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and Honey Masters of the Game, and this is a lot of books, but not a lot of books written from our perspective, from our culture. So you know, we wanted to just be one of the people that added
to the literature aspect of it. And then I'm sure we'll have some other some other doors to kick out, some other balls and some other people that might be you know coming through you know, but but yeah, go to.
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And we talk about them points of dress.
I know people think just do it for like ego to some reasons dressing, yes, but you like, I know it's talked about.
You have to address how you want to be addressed.
But I'm telling you there's a difference between me walking through with the suit versus you know.
It's very important. And then also the Don Peoples things.
So remember the guy that won the contest that we did to people, Yes, me and him Romayne from Bloomberg and Don Peebles was all having a conversation backstage and for forty minutes because he works for Finnro and he's trying to get in oh trying to get into real estate develop So Dom was just literally like just talking about the ups and downs his experiences, the challenges, like he was literally it wasn't just like just hey, I'm gonna shaking hand.
Yeah, Like he was having like a full blown compilation.
I'm like, this is somebody that's networks was a seven hundred million dollars and he was just free with the fruit, you know what I'm saying.
So I thought that that was thought.
I just wanted to highlight that because a lot of times people don't be like I'm gonna meet somebody.
I'm not exact.
And then also Damon John said something that was ill when he was like, you know, I'm sure you guys invested to be here, and a lot of your friends are saying like this is a waste of money. Why you're gonna come. You're not gonna get no value out of this. And he was like that the same people used to say that to me. He was like, and those people are crackheads. So he was like, yo, like,
don't take advice from losers. He was like, yo, like people is always gonna find some level of negativity to try to, you know, tear it down or whatever.
He was.
Focus on the people that's here, don't focus on the noise that's trying to discourage you.
But as far as dressing, before you go to dressing, because I wanted to say that I'm glad you brought up to Don Peoples. And because because Bryce won that that was like one of those raffles we did. You know a lot of times people were like, it's a raffle, nobody ever wins it. But like, no, not only did he do that, he was winning for like two hours.
This wasn't like he was that conversation. Then he was backstage with him and then all ask this person he was at the dinner.
He's cool.
Energy matters, Louis the thirteen.
He was cool, cool, cool man.
He's really happening.
Far as dressing, I think it's important to curate because it is important.
Like Steve Harvey came with that Oh my gosh, Alley Gator ladies.
I said, I said that was gonna happen.
Said that cost ten thousand. He made fashion prom daily. They said that, of course, not not a thousand dollars. But the shoes get on there. Yeah, I think just they just showed the jacket. He had the jacket and he had the shoes. But say what you want about Steve Harvey you're going to notice. Notice, it's gonna hold him in a certain level of respect. Like that's the first thing fifty said us like this, like you know, I mean, like it's a joke, but he knows truth.
If we walked in fifty he felt felt short. He's like cool, cool. I thought, I wore a white fabin. He was like, take it, try to outdress this.
So elevated, but it's important, I think, And that's why I wanted to wear a shuit. I feel like we have elevated to a very important role in business globally. Absolutely, globally, like when you look at when we up there, like you said, with I m F conference and and you know, the DAVO and stuff like that. So only people to do the world too, that's the fact. So I feel like sometimes people will judge a book by its cover, absolutely,
and sometimes you gotta do things provocative. But then also you gotta you have to be mindful of the type of image that you're curating so you can be held in the regard that you want to be held in.
Absolutely.
I agree that there is a difference between and it shouldn't matter, But like you said, people do judge and they're assessing can you put certain things together, quality of material, Like because if you're talking about Walton, you have a forty dollars suit, something is off. So fellas I'm telling it does make a difference. Even in the presentation, I knew it would be a big moment.
I had to wear suit. It wouldn't hit the same in j's and shorts.
So you have to pick because you're going to attract and detracted people based on what you do have on and the information that you give.
That's a fact. Y'all want y'all on that.
Man, all right, sorry for the investments talk, but it was important.
Man, No, It's important and the most legendary.
And it was like I said when I when I told people like history awaits us, it was because I want them to mentally prepare because you're part of this. Yeah, Like yes, obviously as founders of it, we're part of it. Obviously people that don't stay their part of it. But the people that are in the audience, like y'all gonna remember this moment like this is being documented shot like shout out to the AV team, Shout out to the.
They were incredible, even him AV team gracious, like These are some small lessons. The more money you make, the kinder you have to be like, he didn't have to talk to me for the thirty minutes, And how the planet that y'all you guys went in all the meetings that you had to make sure the sound sound, impeccable visuals and.
Also hold let me just let me just shout out to the social media team as well, because those visuals, the way they're being captured, it feels like it's a documentary. It feels like a time piece. It feels like it's a capsule of history, and people are in those videos, and so we want to like when we go down the road five, ten, twenty years, they're gonna look back at twenty twenty four, what happened in who was the HEADLINEA?
What was it like?
These who came from that right that that sparked the person that created the next innovation in some form of technology, some form of healthcare.
Like it's historical, so we should treat it like.
That, Yeah, for sure, But also everybody that went now, you guys have to be defenders of investments because you see anytime you know, it's so like it's a good point true even what we call it, said Mike Rubin right when he was like, black people love to tell black people down. And he got a lot of pushback for that because he's a white person saying that, but it's true. So it's like, now you can't if there's any a narrative of like yo, there's just gonna be
celebrities there. They're gonna tell you believe in yourself.
You got to be like yo. This is the furthest thing from the truth.
Right.
It's over one hundred panels talking about artificial intelligence, talking about crypto, talking about stocks, talking about how to buyo home, talking about real estate, talking about marketing, and we went and we set in and there with each other information and they actually provided a blueprint and Ian spoke for forty minutes and went straight to information. So you can't just let somebody like Vlad or anybody who's trolling be like yo. They just gonna tell you believing yourself that
you saw it firsthand. And we put out clips so people can Even the celebrities like Damon John provided information. Somebody had to save money on taxes. He was talking about his stock picks. He was talking about like they went straight for information So now it's up to y'all guys too, because like I said, you know, it's it's anybody could just say anything, right, but you know, the truth has to be uphold by the people that actually know it. So if you know, you know the truth.
If you was at investments, you know the truth. So if you see any level of negativity or any level of misinformation, please please be a be a public defender, because what happens is that on social media, the regular people are quiet and the haters allowed. So it'd be like one percent in the population, but they look like they're there more the majority. But that's not Nobody can
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You didn't go.
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