FasterFreedom

1.2 billion seconds is 38,000 years…

Elon Musk is currently worth $1.2 trillion on paper

You can argue all you want about if it’s real or not or if it’s ethical or not, but it’s a lot of freaking money regardless

This is a good way to portray how much bigger 1 trillion is than 1 billion or even 1 million

I understand that he’s a trillionaire on paper and I also understand that he cannot put his money into a savings account because it’s not all accessible but the point is it’s a massive number that most people can’t comprehend, including myself

Last weekend I did something that scared me more than speaking in front of 1,000 people in Vegas.

I roasted my high school basketball coach. At his retirement party. With him sitting ten feet away.

This man was my coach for four years. But calling him a coach doesn’t cover it. He was a second father to me during the years a young man needs exactly that. He pushed me harder than I wanted to be pushed. Held me to standards I didn’t think I could reach. And shaped a teenage kid in ways neither of us fully understood at the time.

So when they said his party was a roast — and I was one of two former players asked to speak — I said yes immediately.

Then I spent two weeks genuinely nervous.

Because a normal speech has a script. A roast has a tightrope. Be funny without crossing the line. Honor a man while making fun of him. Land jokes with timing you’ve never practiced while a hundred people who love him watch your every word. There’s nowhere to hide in a roast.

And that’s exactly why it mattered.

Standing up there, somewhere between a joke about his practice drills and a story I almost couldn’t finish, it hit me — this man is still coaching me. Twenty years after my last game. He put me in a position where I had to stretch. One more time. Because that’s what he’s always done.

He pushed me on the court and it taught me what growth actually requires. That lesson carried me into entrepreneurship — through the first deal I was terrified to do, every uncomfortable conversation, every moment where the easy choice was to stay safe and the right choice was to stretch.

Everything I’ve built traces back to a high school gym and a man who refused to let me be comfortable.

Growth doesn’t live where you’re comfortable. It never has. Every meaningful thing in my life was built on the other side of something I didn’t want to do.

And if you’re lucky, you get a few people who keep shoving you toward those moments. Who see more in you than you see in yourself. Who are still doing it decades later without even trying.

Coach — congratulations on an incredible career. The roast was for you. But somehow I walked away with one more lesson.

That’s just like you.

Building a business and being an entrepreneur is hard

If you don’t enjoy the journey, you’re probably not going to make it to the result you want

And if you do, you probably won’t enjoy them as much as you think you will

And you’ll probably think about selling feet pics