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Vinny Lingham Quotes

born 1979 South Africa

Vinny Lingham (born February 7, 1979) is an entrepreneur and technology investor renowned for his significant contributions to the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries. He is best known for his early investments in major blockchain projects such as Solana, Filecoin, and Render, as well as his role as a General Partner at Multicoin Capital from 2017 to 2020.

South Africa
Businesspeople

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Too much education in business is a bad thing, because the time you’re spending learning theory you could be gaining real-world experience.

We live in a weird simulation, for sure.

I laugh at people who, from studying business, go into an MBA after one year’s experience. You learn nothing like that. MBAs don’t maketh the entrepreneur.

Not all entrepreneurs drive around in big cars with fancy houses. I live in a modest little apartment. It’s nice, but it’s just two bedrooms.

Clients ranged from eBay to Expedia, and Lingham attributes the search marketing company’s success to his own technical know-how. “I understood the techniques to rank keywords for clients higher than anyone else.

The biggest mistake that the government and people of South Africa (are) making is to think that South Africa is going to be the biggest economy in Africa in 10 to 15 years.

I built (Clicks2Customers) up within three and a half years to a $10 million-a-year business, with only one South African client. So all the revenue was coming from the States.

The guy who the courts have ruled is not Satoshi wrote a prediction tweet thread about a man who is trying to own more BTC than Satoshi... Would be even more crazy if this comes to fruition…

The difference between entrepreneurs and other people is that you work for a lot lower salary on a monthly basis, but then you’re building long-term equity wealth and value in your shares and the companies you build. Ambition often comes with sacrifice.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vinny Lingham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.