Ok, so let me counter your question with a question, "Why do you care?"
To understand that let's unpack the question you are asking. You have equated dollars to success. But in the world dollars are not related to success they are related to luck. Acts are related to success, "This person did x.", "This person created y." or "This person discovered z." Those are acts not dollars. Do you consider someone who won the lottery by picking the numbers that were chosen by a random number generator successful? They might have way more money than you do at this point, does that bother you?
Elon Musk isn't "successful" because he has a lot of money, he is successful because he created the first private company that could put things into orbit and recover them. He is successful because he changed how the world thought about electric cars. He is successful because he did things that no one else had managed to do before.
Creating a bunch of companies is a great start, and its great that you've managed to acquire some working capital. The measure of your worth, of your success, is how you decide to apply that capital. (hint: using it to 'market' your image is not a good use of capital.) Want some ideas? Develop a way to redevelop cities ravaged by war. Find an economic model that creates housing for people that can't currently afford it. Develop a way to farm that generates food with better safety and fewer resources, then prove it can scale. Invent a way to use wave power to run a desalination unit such that a unit on the beach can provide potable water for islanders or inland villagers.
You don't have to be brilliant, you've got a skill for making money by creating businesses, now combine that skill with someone who is brilliant but has no business acumen at all. As a team you can change the world whereas separately you both have little impact.
Change your success focus from dollars to impact and you won't need to market yourself.
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Ok, so let me counter your question with a question, "Why do you care?"
To understand that let's unpack the question you are asking. You have equated dollars to success. But in the world dollars are not related to success they are related to luck. Acts are related to success, "This person did x.", "This person created y." or "This person discovered z." Those are acts not dollars. Do you consider someone who won the lottery by picking the numbers that were chosen by a random number generator successful? They might have way more money than you do at this point, does that bother you?
Elon Musk isn't "successful" because he has a lot of money, he is successful because he created the first private company that could put things into orbit and recover them. He is successful because he changed how the world thought about electric cars. He is successful because he did things that no one else had managed to do before.
Creating a bunch of companies is a great start, and its great that you've managed to acquire some working capital. The measure of your worth, of your success, is how you decide to apply that capital. (hint: using it to 'market' your image is not a good use of capital.) Want some ideas? Develop a way to redevelop cities ravaged by war. Find an economic model that creates housing for people that can't currently afford it. Develop a way to farm that generates food with better safety and fewer resources, then prove it can scale. Invent a way to use wave power to run a desalination unit such that a unit on the beach can provide potable water for islanders or inland villagers.
You don't have to be brilliant, you've got a skill for making money by creating businesses, now combine that skill with someone who is brilliant but has no business acumen at all. As a team you can change the world whereas separately you both have little impact.
Change your success focus from dollars to impact and you won't need to market yourself.