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Re:The Dangerous Fetishization of ‘Hustle Porn’ by lxmorj on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:18AM (#18438784)
GaryV was a major investor in FaithBox, a company that knowingly incurred huge bills with my company that they'd knew be unable to pay (I run a 3PL). The switched to another warehouse for two months and did the same to them, then they "sold" to a firm in Omaha in a supposedly $0 asset-for-debt sale, and the buyers are trying to get out of paying me ~$60k. My lawyers are on it and I expect to get something out of them eventually, but I was lucky my business was far enough along to survive the hit.

The guy who ran the company into the ground through gross mismanagement was one of the speakers at SubSummit this year.

Such 'hustle'...

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Re:The Dangerous Fetishization of ‘Hustle Porn’ by mindentropy on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:29PM (#18453571)
I am seeing more and more of this on youtube now. The people who advise others like this are usually flawed in their business dealings. These people usually tend to focus on soft skills without any emphasis on other skills. The soft skills is usually convincing people and leans more towards conning people with sweet talk and forceful marketing.
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