Legends – anywhere they go, they find how to extract value. Today, Donald Trump is about to be rewarded with $3 billion for Truth Social: “Shareholders voted to approve Trump Media’s merger with a blank-check company, following years of legal and regulatory obstacles. Trump will own a dominant stake in a public company, with shares worth more than $3 billion at current market prices.”
We rant here, post day and night, but one businessman with deal sagacity has created a $3 billion fortune in less than 4 years from social media!
Do not be jealous, just try to understand how they create this value. Because if you are in that virtuous circle of value capture and acceleration, you will always be rolling, whether in real estate, fashion, social media, etc.
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In the greatest Igbo novel ever written (by my call), Tony Ubesie’s “Isi Akwu Dara N’ala” explained the transformation of Chike, the husband of Ada, in the context of “osisi na ami ego” [literally, a tree which produces money as the leaves]. Heavens opened for Chike, and he harvested money from trees – and those trees were factories, and industries. Ubesie was at his finest, producing a trilogy of James Hadley Chase (There’s Always a Price Tag), Thomas Hardy (The Mayor of Casterbridge) and Bertha M Clay (Beyond Pardon) all lumped together.
Legends – they win at night, they win at day; they always find how to make money in anything, even though we the people may not understand. Post, share, hate, and like, Trump adds $3 billion for the same thing!
Legends – anywhere they go, they find how to extract value. Today, Donald Trump is about to be rewarded with $3 billion for Truth Social: “Shareholders voted to approve Trump Media’s merger with a blank-check company, following years of legal and regulatory obstacles. Trump will… pic.twitter.com/LlqhLHj0Ri
— Ndubuisi Ekekwe (@ndekekwe) March 22, 2024
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The man Trump lives his life in the very way most people would have wished to, only that they are cowards, and therefore they say one thing and harbour a different thing in their hearts. Here is a man who knows how to fight, you do not need to like him or his ways, but his fighting spirit is something only few humans can match, he never surrenders nor cower, irrespective of whatever you throw at him. The world is neither nice nor pleasant, so if you can’t fight, you get steamrolled.
The Truth Social emerged from his deplatforming across all major social media, the snowflakes laughed at him and derided him, now he’s about to worth extra billions of dollars, with obviously great chance of making his way back to the Whitehouse. If that is not extraordinary by every standard, then you are both naive and deluded, and you have no truth in you.
There is something about this man called Donald Trump, and to make sense of it, you first need to sanitize your mind from default prejudices and unhealthy biases, so that you can see what people with clear heads and hearts are seeing.
The man Trump came, saw, and he keeps conquering. Dismiss him at your own peril.