Last Friday, before I took off for the weekend, my friend Aitio dropped by the office.

He stops by a few times a year just to say hello.

He wasn’t exactly in our neighborhood, which is in downtown Manhattan on the water. But with his 2023 Tesla Model S Plaid…

Do you trust the stock market?

Long-term, sure I do. But short-term, no way.

The Nasdaq just closed in bear-market territory for the first time since 2022. It’s down more than 20% from its record high in December.

And the S&P 500 has fallen 17.4% since setting an all-time high on February…

Late last year, a new world record shook the financial world:

A private startup raised $10 billion.

When most startups go out to raise capital, they raise a million or two. If they’re hot, they might raise five or ten million. A tiny handful raise $100+ million.

But $10 billion?…

The stock market is terrifying right now.

Last month alone, fears about global tariffs and a potential recession erased $4 trillion from the S&P 500.

In times like this, it’s helpful to see what professional investors are doing — and if possible, copy them.

So today, I’ll show you the…

They say you should invest in what you know and love.

“Well,” you might say, “I love to drink. Does that count?”

Funny you should ask…

Beverages as Startup Investments

Beverage products can make great startup investments — especially now, as a wave of M&A is happening. For example:

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Imagine stumbling across something at home that’s worth a fortune…

An old painting, a vintage necklace, a slab of marble sitting outside.

Well, in the true story you’re about to read, that’s exactly what happened.

A used tablet — in fact, a very used tablet — was recently discovered.

I expect this to be one of the stranger stories you’ve heard about recently.

It’s about a startup that just raised millions from top investors. Now it stands a good shot at beating the odds and becoming successful. But that’s not the strange part…

What’s so strange is how darn…

What was the #1 most profitable investment of all time?

Was it Warren Buffett’s investment in Coca-Cola in 1987?

Was it picking up shares of Amazon or Netscape in the 90s?

Or was it something more unexpected?

I recently came across a list of the world’s most profitable, documented investments.

Being an investor can give you whiplash.

Just yesterday, it seemed like you had a perfect investment plan. But today, a talking head on CNBC is preaching about how wrong your strategy is.

So, should you stick with your Magnificent Seven stocks, your QQQ, your 60/40 portfolio, or whichever plan…

A couple of years ago, 35-year-old Shane O’Farrell realized something:

Investing in stocks for the long-term wasn’t going to work for him. The returns were too low. As he said, stocks won’t “get me where I want to go. It would take decades.”

So he tried something else: investing in…