Neil Patel

The reason I look at numbers the way I do is I want to beat my friends has nothing to do with

I have a lot of friends who are worth more money than me and I'll never beat them.

And when they do well, it's not like, damn it, you're doing better than me.

I still want to root them on and have them win, but I still want to win as well.

And why can't I get to their level?

I just don't think I'll actually get to a lot of my friends level in my lifetime because I picked too small of a TAM, which is total addressable market.

It's like, if you look at the ad agency space, the WPPs of the world, the publicists of the world, they've been around for a long time.

Most of them are worth the big ones are lucky.

If there were 10 to $20 billion, it requires a lot of capital to get there.

It's not efficient, like software companies or some of these tech companies, which have much better margins.

So who do you think is successful in a business aspect or in just general life aspect?

People have really hit the home runs where you can do whatever you want.

And what I mean, do whatever you want is you can buy a sports team.

You can buy multiple sports teams.

You can buy, you know, you have enough money to buy your own private islands.

That to me is successful from a business aspect.

Yes, that's spot on.

Very spot on.

I used to play fantasy football, but yeah, I haven't in years, but I love it.

Personally, I look at success as very different.