The Come-Up: What's the Highest Jump You've Seen?
Unfortunately, the world isn't fair. The biggest driver of success in life generally stems from how much your parents made and the opportunities presented. For instance, the kid born in rural Appalachia growing up on food stamps is basically screwed in comparison to the NH private school kid when competing for high tier jobs and financial success. However, there are always some outliers that are able to climb from the shit.
What's the story of someone who you've personally interacted with that has the highest come-up? What made them successful?
I know a guy whose mom left him in a dumpster on prom night... he climbed out of the dumpster all on his own and walked to the orphanage.
There he became the alpha of the orphanage and basically ran the show. He got great grades at shitty public school and used his shit upbringing to get into Harvard. Absolute boss
I know another guy who started out as a single cell organism on a turd in Bangladesh. He learned to work with other cells and become a multi-cell organism. Eventually different groups of cells began specializing in different activities. These specialized groups of cells eventually became a human body and he busted his ass to be the best student he could be.
He broke out of Bangladesh and into Harvard (his application essay basically wrote itself) where he became a top student, leader in numerous clubs. Now he’s working at TPGs growth equity group - what a boss
Bad example, warm turds are great places to incubate single cells into multiple cells. Might as well be leading off 3rd base with silver cleats.
Another evolution opportunity presents itself for this former single-cell organism:
TPG Growth Founder Bill McGlashan Placed on Immediate Leave Over College Admissions Cheating Scandal
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My dad started as a village boy living on probably ~$1000 a year and makes north of $200k/year now - sometimes far north of that figure. Needless to say to improve on his "come-up" I'd probably need to make ~$10+ million a year at some point.
A lot of the big come-up stories I have seen have been a result of athletics. For example, somebody with terrible prospects goes to college as a first generation college student and then gets a great job. Know a few traders like that - came from small towns in fly-over states and now making a ton trading commodities.
Really interesting, do you know what they attributed to their success? I'm sure their work ethic was unreal, but maybe just surrounding yourself in college with connected, well-off people was enough to get momentum going in just knowing options and lingo.
Yeah - they are all super smart people that would have been intellectually overqualified to really do anything where they grew up. Fortunately they were identified and had a way to grow into that potential through connections and opportunities afforded to them in college.
Know someone that came from a developing country over to the states. Was disowned for not following traditional values. Had about $150 to his name.
Paid for undergrad and grad school himself by working and teaching throughout college. Started up his own company that has grown to about $3 to $4mm a year in Revenue.
I know a guy who started from the bottom. Living with his mamma they'd argue every month. He worked all night and got caught in traffic on the way home. He's worth 9 figures now.
Guy in my fraternity was a child soldier in Africa. Long story short, he escaped the situation and is now getting his law degree and is a successful activist.
So he's one of those darn SJWs? Don't those idiots know how amazing everything is and that they should just shut up and enjoy the freedoms in this country and not rock the boat?
Don't worry it didn't go over my head, looks like it whooshed by a few people though
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SJW == Activist
SJW = Annoying feminine person from a rich country
Lululemon manager to private equity VP at a family office.
Guy married the daughter of the guy who owns the fund.
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Guy whose mom was an alcoholic and he grew up in the middle of nowhere. Dad was not a good guy either. Dude was literally dumpster diving at one point and all his siblings are drug addicts/FAS/etc..
He started a company and just completed a Series A at an 8 figure valuation after 4 or 5 years of grinding it out. He got some level of liquidity out too which is nice.
Easily one of the nicest most/hard working guys I've had the chance to be around and 100% earned his success.
I've seen him go way way way out of his way to help people too.
There’s a guy who goes to a non target school. He grinded out his first two years mad hard and got a 4.0 GPA. Tho he couldn’t land any internships then proceeded to troll forums and blame H1B slots and Immigrants for stealing his interships despite having a perfect GPA.
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Post the studies that show starting out poor with a high IQ is better than starting out rich with a low IQ, as far as ending up rich.
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This is a complete non-sequiter. Sure, intelligence is important (though "intelligence" is a nebulous claim and there are major some major drawbacks to the IQ system as a measure of intelligence). But until you can show that it is more important than access to education, nutrition, etc, you have essentially no point at all. Having a huge dick might be highly correlated with success, too, that doesn't make it a meaningful driver of it
No, "g" is a very well thought out assessment of intelligence, and intelligence can indeed be measured very well. It's amazing to me how so many of you clowns can be so misinformed and don't even care.
There is no significant correlation (or any robust statistical association) between IQ and hard measures such as wealth. Most “achievements” linked to IQ are measured in circular stuff s.a. bureaucratic or academic success, things for test takers and salary earners in structured jobs that resemble the tests. Wealth may not mean success but it is the only “hard” number, not some discrete score of achievements. You can buy food with a $30, not with other “successes” s.a. rank, social prominence, or having had a selfie with the Queen. - Nassim N. Taleb
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There is no correlation between IQ and success? That is so incorrect on the face of it that it's silly. It's even more silly when looking at studies. IQ is the best indicator of success.
Guy born in deep East Texas, rural and standard Irish family problems: too many kids, not enough money. Goes from HS to working the rigs in ETX, quits and manages to graduate college. Winds up MD at a HF.
I've heard stories of rednecks out in the oil patch starting as roustabouts and exiting fracking services companies for 9 figures 15 years later... Guys that may not have even finished high school.
My old man started pretty low on the totem pole. Dirt poor even by 3rd world country standards, only kid in his building (and trust me, they packed those buildings with bodies) to get into high school, ended up scholarshipping his way all the way through a doctorate and providing us kids with a solidly middle to upper middle class upbringing. He's no PE BSD throwing cash at models and bottles, but I think he did pretty well for himself.
And now I'm here slinging monkey shit at anonymous people on an online forum
For real though, try Jack Ma or Wang Jianlin.
John Paul DeJoria has an interesting story to tell. I think he is famous enough to google.
My great grandfather was a poor Copt in Egypt back when muslims liked killing us for no reason (and still do). Got tight with the right individuals at the right times, past down connections to granddaddy and now we're doing well, better than most in the country. It makes me happy today that many Egyptian industrialists are Copts, and garbage like the muslim brotherhood gets overthrown, hanged, shot, and sewered by our almightly president Sisi.
Know dozens of immigrant doctors or engineers who grew up dirt poor and all of whom are making at least mid 6 figures. Some were able to parlay that into low 8 figure net worths through investing
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