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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | I was a liar, a cheater, I'm a manipulator, over-seller, but I hated myself, so I sat there. |
0:11.0 | And I remembered these four things and I was going to take stock of them. |
0:18.0 | This is the flavor. |
0:20.0 | So a lot of people ask me, how the heck do you lose over a hundred million dollars and go bankrupt? |
0:25.0 | And it was really three points in my life that I look back now to say, this is how it happened. |
0:34.0 | And two, I will tell you how I got out of it, which is a lot of what I've explained already. |
0:39.0 | So when I was 30 years old, imagine being a multi-millionaire coming and growing up from nothing. |
0:45.0 | Not only a multi-millionaire, but I was running Samsung's phone division, the CEO of the world's first smartphone. |
0:51.0 | They didn't even call it a smartphone in 1999. It was called a convergence device. |
0:56.0 | It converged to phone and computer. |
0:58.0 | But I was also married to my dream girl from the fourth grade, who my best friend Rob at Sixth Grade Camp asked her to go steady with me. |
1:07.0 | And she said, no, and he made fun of me in front of everyone. |
1:10.0 | And so I got mad at her and threw an egg at her and then threw rocks at her and asked her why her friends were prettier than her. |
1:16.0 | Imagine I'm now living at 30, married to my dream girl, a multi-millionaire with an unbelievable position. |
1:25.0 | And my dad, who left me at five, gives me a birthday present, the first one in 20 years, he sends me a jacket. |
1:33.0 | I'm so excited just to get a birthday present from my father. I think in my head, oh my gosh, he wants to have a relationship with me. |
1:39.0 | He gets it. He wants my forgiveness for all the things that he's done to me. |
1:44.0 | And I open up the jacket and I put it on and it fits perfectly and I start to cry. |
1:48.0 | My wife's like, what's the matter? I said, he actually cared enough to find out exactly my size. |
1:53.0 | It fits perfectly. So I opened it up to see if it says especially made for my son's birthday or our money, he tore out all the pockets. |
2:01.0 | I went from complete joy to hate, to anger. |
2:06.0 | And I called him up and I said, Dad, why are you punishing me? |
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