In my nightlife days, the promoter was the most underestimated person in the entire ecosystem.
Club owners got the glory. DJs got the fame.
Celebrities got the attention. But the promoter?
The promoter was the connective tissue that made all of it possible. Without a good promoter, you had a beautiful room with no one in it. And a beautiful empty room is just a very expensive storage unit.
I built one of the first digital nightlife and events promotion companies. Now I run Neman Ventures.
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My parents left Iran with one suitcase and a few hundred dollars. They didn't speak English fluently. They didn't have jobs waiting for them. They didn't have a network, a safety net, or a five-year plan. What they had was a conviction that the country they loved was no longer a place where they could build the life they wanted for their children. And that conviction was enough to make them walk away from everything they'd ever known.
I've told pieces of this story before, in interviews, in conversations, in the margins of my book. But I've never sat down and written the whole thing. And I've never connected it, directly and explicitly, to the way I think about investing, risk, and building a life. So I'm doing that now. Because as I get older, and as I watch my own kids grow up in a world of abundance and opportunity, I realize that the most important lessons I carry aren't from college, or from medical school (which I dropped out of), or even from the nightlife industry (which taught me more than both combined). The most important lessons came from watching two people with nothing build everything.
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Regrets of the Dying – Bronnie Ware
People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance.
What's the Best Workout For Longevity?
“NEAT is actually what helps people manage their overall body composition the most,” Dr. Galpin says, saying that examples of this type of physical activity include pacing while on the phone, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, doing household chores, gardening, and playing with your kids or pets.
12 lessons to overcome whatever is holding you back
This week’s insights: 12 Lessons To Overcome Whatever Is Holding You Back, How to Avoid Family Conflicts Over Inheritance, and Why We’re Less Happy in a Better World.
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