Do you remember...
 

when PayPal was giving away $5 if you created a new account? This was back around the year 2000. Every now and then I run into someone that does not have a PayPal account and am always shocked. I suppose I forget that not everyone has an online "world."

Interesting timeline on Elon Musk's career. Pay attention to the dates. A good reminder that great things take time.

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-...ampaign=buffer

Paypal have come a long way and so has Elon Musk

Timimg is everyrhing.

Put me in that tech boom and id be filthy rich too.

Since ive been an adult here the timeline

9/11
non stop war
Recession, re amd full banking crash
my primary income internet porn is dead


All that im doing ok.

Point is timing is everything.

If i could have sold my first biz for 300m im sure id followup with some other neat stuff

Timing has nothing to do with anything. For every success since 1994 online, there have been 1,000,000 failures. They were all there at the same time(s). Almost every venture ever invested in online has lost it all. I seriously doubt you'd bet everything you had an wake up finding yourself in the top .0001% of entrepreneurs simply because of a date. Having cash has little do with his continued success. He's a super intelligent person and a visionary. He plans well. He executes well. He leads well. He competes well. He runs his companies well. He does 1000 things well in business that 99.999999% of people do not.

You are mostly correct sir but not totally, timing is hugely important.

Are you saying the bangbros guys would be where they are now if they started in 2005 as many other who are equally skilled yet had far less success simply due to timing.

Ithey are no geniuses yet they are in the % you mentioned.

Theres a lot of options open when you are making 300k a month doing next to nothing.

Furthermore theres much more successed in booms and the last ten years has been anything but a boom.
Nearly every industry has tanked really making succeess 100x harder. Possible but 100x harder.

/ point.

I'm saying that many many years after people proclaimed the adult industry "dead" online, JT built an empire and explained over and over again how he did it to deaf ears. Timing has nothing to do with being great at what you do, being a great leader and being a great business person.

My point which I thought was clear, was that just because its 1998, doesn't mean you're suddenly guaranteed to make 300 million dollars. All the guys who made the most in the first days of adult are dead in the water now. Timing was important and the fact that they were shitty business people is why you can't even name 10 of those people as i can that rapidly made 8 figures and just as quickly lost it all in the following years. They weren't Elon Musk either.

Almost all money invested in web ventures in online business is lost. I sincerely doubt you are smarter or more competent than legions of people worth 8 to 10 figures, with a combined countless 1000s of years as entrepreneurs. If you were, you'd be making that money right now and not pining for the past or blaming the present. ;)

BTW... anyone that knows this business and its history, knows full well that BangBros has done well over the years because of their high quality, and namely their exclusive content. While they were blowing up and doing 1000s and 1000s of joins per day, others were going out of business left and right, whining that the industry is dead. All working at the exact same time. All experiencing something very different, according to their abilities.

I do far better than most and as such I know where my luck came in and where timing played a roll in my success.

Earlier was a quote from gates saying its part luck...so you should continue this debate with him pls as im saying the same thing essentially.

There is a fine line for MANY that determines great unbridled success or mediocre success.

You even said it. Many total drugged up morons made FORTUNES early in porn due to their timing but couldn't hack it when it turned into a business.

elon is clearly a smart guy and clearly had some good luck / timing.

Now pls point ur angry boner in another direction, away from me. K thx lol

i'm not angry.

if i may ask... why aren't you interested in my boner?

I'm with you!