Would you cut a check and invest in you?

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January 19, 2022

by a searcher from Arizona State University in Boston, MA, USA

Let's say you are in business school and you had to invest in someone, and that someone represented the equivalent of a stock or a company that you are buying, who would it be?

Would it be the smartest?

Would be the one that is always studying?

Would it be the most outspoken?

Would it be you?

Is there a person/stock/business you would short?

This framework, I believe helps us to identify blind spots in whom we are becoming as human beings in reaching our full potential.

Thoughts?

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from University of California, Berkeley in Seattle Metropolitan Area, WA, USA
I have to laugh a bit as I read your title and the first sentence and thought it was going the route of p2p MBA lending space (which may or may not be ready for prime time, though I've seen a few failures over the last 10 years).

Would bet this is a big question for most of us with self-doubt, and why we see a bunch of people that succeed by choosing to actually make the bet on themselves instead of wrestling over it.
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from IMD in Melbourne VIC, Australia
You know, there's a guy I went to college with who wouldn't have been anywhere near the top of my list of potential successful entrepreneurs.

That same guy later founded a company that went to over $500m market cap, then a couple more that haven't gotten as big (yet) but are undoubtedly successful, and has a personal net worth in the high 8 to 9 figure range,

Funny how things work out sometimes.
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