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Matt Lauritz

3 Con-man Lessons about Confidence for Client-facing Businesses

A few years ago, I had the displeasure of seeing very wealthy people (with $100m+ net worths) get scammed. And it wasn’t like the scammer was some particularly smooth dude with an airtight backstory – he was a loser living in a hotel.

We should have known better, but fortunately the actual damage done was relatively low, and I got to learn 3 profitable lessons about landing bigger clients.

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Matt Lauritz

The Hilarious Scam Targeting My First Grader

Public school isn’t an efficient way to learn. But it’s a decent place to get socialized and prepare for the “real” world.

So it’s totally natural and good that my kid is already being scammed by authority figures in the first month. (Just like real life!)

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Democratizing opportunity through technology.

"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights." – J. Paul Getty, whose children created one of the greatest philanthropic endowments ever as a last laugh on a bitter miser.