Jeff Sekinger

Founder & CEO, Nurp · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jeff Sekinger is an ex-corporate banker who founded algorithmic trading software company Nurp, business funding consultancy 0 Percent, and digital asset hedge fund Orca Capital. He is widely recognized for overcoming severe opioid addiction and debt to build several multi-million-dollar financial companies.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Sekinger: Borrowers Need 21 Accounts for Perfect US Credit Score

“So you actually need to have 21 accounts to have a perfect credit score in the United States.”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 37:14 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

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Assertion Contradicted

Sekinger: Borrowers Need 21 Accounts for Perfect US Credit Score

“So you actually need to have 21 accounts to have a perfect credit score in the United States.”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 37:14 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Assertion Contradicted

Sekinger: Almost all billionaires built their wealth through private equity in private companies

“Pretty much almost every billionaire has been built through private equity, which is through their private company.”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 39:54 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Insight

Sekinger: Leveraging credit for cashflow-producing assets is the fastest way to scale

“That's how you can start and scale quickly is by leveraging your credit to invest in things that are going to produce cashflow.”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 43:48 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Sekinger: NERP will generate $50M to $60M in 2024

“We'll, we'll do somewhere between 50 and sixty million this year.”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 45:19 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Insight

Sekinger: Experiencing energy from opioids is a warning sign of addiction

“And I realized that the thing that you'll, you'll realize when you're going to be in trouble from opiates is when it actually gives you energy. So it actually gave me a bit more energy to in, in drive to want to do more things like lift more weights and work o…”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 3:37 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Insight

Sekinger: You cannot shoot a cannon from a canoe

“You can't shoot a cannon from a canoe. Meaning you can't do anything big if your foundation is not solid. So you have to build a solid foundation yourself before you try to do these crazy things and help all of these people.”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 28:41 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Insight

Sekinger: Early-stage founders do not need expensive business plans to launch

“What I learned from the, you know, the business plan company that I started was people don't want a business plan. They want to be able to actually queue quickly. And they honestly don't really need a rock solid business plan to start either. They need some ty…”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 31:43 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Insight

Sekinger: Use debt exclusively to produce wealth, never for consumption

“The big thing is you got to use debt for purposes of increasing your wealth, not being a consumer. So you can decide to be a producer with the debt, or you can be a consumer with the debt. Don't use that to be a consumer. Use that to invest into things that ca…”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 34:40 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sekinger: Scaled educational credit business from $5K to over $100K monthly

“The first couple months I launched, like the travel piece and that, that, that educational program, I think I made right around five grand and then it went to, you know, the next month was like 12 grand and then it went to over 20 and then it went to I launche…”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 32:48 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sekinger: Accumulated over $60,000 in debt before entering rehab

“I was over 60 grand in debt at the time, so my back was against the wall. I had no, no other direction but to go into rehab and then use that as a place for me to reset and change my life.”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 5:22 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sekinger: Opioid recovery took six months for physical and mental reset

“It took about probably like a month and a half for the physical symptoms to subside. And then the next, you know, like four months, it was, you know, four, five months just mental, you know, stuff, get my brain back to normal from many, many years of on and of…”

Jeff Sekinger Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 21:15 You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
You Can't Shoot a Cannon From a Canoe and He Proved It at $60M	Jul 23, 2024	31m

Jeff Sekinger

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