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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q And it's not like you, you know, come from, it's not like your family were storage kings, right? It's not like you, it's not like you knew really what you were doing, right? You're kind of learning as you go.
A Oh, I didn't know. I had no idea what I was doing. I posted an ad on Craigslist for somebody to lease my apartment and they said, I don't want to lease my apartment. I want to put my stuff in your apartment. So I got sweaty, went and made a 150 bucks and then I realized I couldn't lease my apartment. So I filled the son of a gun up with other people's stuff. Um, and yeah, man, like three, Three weeks after the idea, I had 3000 dollars cash sitting on the bed in my dorm. So we were profitable from day one. I didn't look, I think one of my advantages here is I didn't consider myself an entrepreneur. I didn't study entrepreneurship. I didn't fall into the entrepreneurship trap or a business like this would not have excited me, frankly, because it was hard.
AI assessment note: “Oh, I didn't know. I had no idea what I was doing.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q about it as like a pizza, it's just like you're cutting You know, you're cutting it in another slice, and another slice, and another slice, and another slice, and it's a bit of mental overload. So sometimes, you know, I look at what you're doing, and I'm like, whoa, this guy's like working on a lot of projects. Um, is that just me, or how do you feel about it?
A Yeah, I, I'm an over-delegator to the extreme, meaning I'm not going to interact with any of the customers. I'm not going to have an email address from, for the company. I'm not going to have a job in the company or I'm pissed off. And that's a blessing and a curse. It's a curse because, you know, it's 80% as good as it would be if I were doing it myself. Like I could do it myself better, but it's a blessing because I can take more shots and I can Invest in an operator who I know is awesome. I mean, an example is my property and casualty insurance company, which could be the biggest of all my businesses in, in 10 years. I have my, my, the CEO of that company is, is my business partner, Dan Hagberg, who I went to college with and founded the storage company with and owns half my real estate portfolio. And I know he's a killer. I have not been on one meeting. I have not done anything at all for that company, except ask him on the fourth hole of a golf course. Oh, Hey, by the way, how's, how's Titan risk going? Other companies are different. Like not, not all operators are as competent as Dan, but in a way, like they're, they're impressing me. Like these people that own these, that are running these companies, they're impressing me. Like I don't, I don't need to talk to the guy who runs my recruiting company, but once a month and he, we've done 76,000 dollars of revenue in the fir…
AI assessment note: “I'm an over-delegator to the extreme, meaning I'm not going to interact”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Yeah. So he's anonymous, which is pretty interesting. Like if you were him, Would you like, why is he anonymous?
A I don't have patience for people who are anonymous. Like if you, if you're not even, if you are not willing to put your face behind your ideas on Twitter, then I am not going to heavily weight your ideas on Twitter, period. I mean, I love the concept of web three and I love, um, Balaji's idea of everybody being an anonymous being on the internet, but in general, in business, when it comes to people doing deals with you, when it comes to people wanting to get to know you, when it comes to serious opportunity, That all comes when people get to know a person that they can trust, and they can build rapport with, and people invest money with me, people bring deals to me, people talk about business and opportunities, and I can make so much money on Twitter because I'm a real human. Um, the Anon stuff, I don't know, it's kind of a cop-out in my opinion.
AI assessment note: “The Anon stuff, I don't know, it's kind of a cop-out in my opinion.”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.00
Q You know, over the long time, a long period of time, you'll be okay. With real estate, if you want to get into real estate, you can't really do that. Like, you only have, like, if you, you have to be very smart about when you're purchasing your building, your product. If it's your first building that you're buying, should someone buy it in 2023, or is it too uncertain?
A So there's just so much real estate in the world. Look, there's 50,000 self storage facilities. Some of them are going to be really good deals. It all depends on how much you pay for one. Like, There's a 100,000 buildings within five miles of where you are in Miami. Um, some of them will trade at really good deals where the people who bought them are going to make a lot of money. We haven't acquired very much storage in the second half of 2022, because overall as a market, seller expectations are still too high. And I don't think it's wise to deploy a lot of capital into real estate, but we just bought a deal and closed it on the 15th of December for 1.65 million. And it's a really good deal. I think in a couple of years, it might be worth three million dollars. You know, so it's really hard to say. It's really hard to say. It all depends on.
AI assessment note: “I don't think it's wise to deploy a lot of capital into real estate”
Answered raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q And what percentage Like what percentage true is this tweet?
A I pretty strongly. So look, it's, it's, it's geared towards my target person. Obviously not everybody is in the situation where this applies to them, right? They're people with mental issues. They're struggling with alcohol. They're literally do not have their own life together and they have no business getting married and trying to support a child. But I'm talking to the people who are like me because that's the majority of people who follow me on the internet are Competent people, 30 to 40 to 50 years old, who are kicking ass at their career, they're making money, they're into entrepreneurship, they're into business, and maybe they've just kind of forgot that, holy cow, kids are super important to live a rewarding life. Then I make the second tweet. Don't buy in the illusion of choice because you hear the excuse all the time of guys and girls alike being like, I just want to travel. I want to get it out of my system. I want to go live my life and, you know, do all these things before I have kids. And I personally pretty strongly believe that that's bullshit and actually creates a bunch of bad habits that are really hard to break when you actually do want to settle down. So my second tweet, I just lean in. Don't buy into the illusion of choice. You know, don't buy into the lie that is getting out of your system. If you travel and sleep around and do whatever you want for 20 ye…
AI assessment note: “it's geared towards my target person. Obviously not everybody is in the situation”
