The company still exists, the current share price doesn't mean that Blackberry is unable to become a large company again.
I would buy a Blackberry before I'd buy an iphone.
I'd buy a Blackberry with a full keypad from 10yrs ago, before I'd buy a brand new iphone.
Mac does more sales on their iphone than all of Microsoft, I believe, but the digital world would be crippled if it weren't for Windows.
So, someone needs to calibrate their understanding of how to quantify value.
Gary Vee is a hustler, and a shyster.
He's not an innovator.
He inherited his family's multi-million dollar wine business, and grew it from there.
He didn't start with nothing, and build a legitimate business.
He had a proven model to start with, and all he had to do was expand it, without doing anything too stupid.
It's my understanding that he entered that business at age 14, and then after college he started doing it full-time.
So, that means he was in the business for several years, and then when he started doing it full-time, it took him five years to grow the business from $3mil to $60mil.
He is now 44yrs old, and his net worth is supposedly $150mil.
So, it took him 10yrs of experience to initially grow his family's wine business.
Now, 20yrs later, he's only worth twice as much?
Obviously, he's rich, and famous, and I have no doubt that he's competent enough to be so, but it took him many years to get there, and he obviously had a lot of help to do so.
Therefore, I think it's silly how he's glorified, when you actually look at the facts.
If I started with a multi-million dollar business, I'd have big gains, too.
I've only been in Internet Marketing since 2015.
I started with $700, and now I make a small salary. LoL
In another 5yrs, I'll definitely be compounding my current gains.
Doesn't make me a prodigy. xD
Just makes me a regular dude who put in some time, and built something decent.
Maybe I'm ignorant of some of the facts of his backstory, but the core numbers don't lie.
If he actually started with nothing, he'd probably be some Joe reading BHW posts, right now.
