Ecombaba retweeted
At 23, we sold our software company to an international buyer for €83 million.
A few people have asked me how I got started without money. This is how it happened for me.
I grew up poor and started working for myself at 16. I had no money to invest and no network to ask for favours. But I'd learned to code, so I started earning money with that.
Websites, iPhone apps, computer repairs. Whatever people needed that I knew how to do.
At the same time, I kept building my own software projects. Hundreds of systems that went nowhere before I finally made something that worked.
I was 19 when I met a woman working in healthcare. She was much older than me, around 50 if I remember correctly. She told me her staff were still working with Excel, Word and USB sticks.
I thought it was so primitive. Surely I could build something that would let them write reports about their patients online, straight from their phones.
She offered to finance the whole thing as long as I did the programming.
I wasn't thinking about ownership, negotiating shares or eventually selling a company. I thought it was a really interesting problem, and now someone was offering to fund me solving it.
I've always loved figuring out difficult things. Give me something complicated to build and I'll happily disappear into it.
That's why I didn't negotiate. I was happy with what I was offered because I got to spend my time doing something I loved.
What started as a way to write patient reports became a complete ERP system. It covered everything from assessing how much care a patient needed to scheduling staff and billing for the care delivered.
We built a company around it, with employees and multiple locations. The software became a market leader in its field.
None of that was in my head when I first said yes.
At 21, I received my first dividend.
I was on holiday with my parents in Fuerteventura, standing in line at Lidl to pay for some croissants, when a notification came through on my banking app.
The money had arrived.
I opened the app and immediately took a screenshot. That's the picture attached.
When you've grown up without money, seeing a balance like that is a feeling I can't really describe. Almost better than sex, honestly.
Two years later, we sold the company.
That €83 million was the sale price of the business, not what I personally received. I owned 30%.
Looking back, I wish I'd had the confidence to ask for 50/50. She financed the project, which made it possible. I built the entire system. But at the beginning, I hadn't really thought about the value of what I was bringing.
I was just excited that I could build it.
So when someone tells me they don't have the money to bring their ideas to life, I understand. I didn't either.
I earned money from my skills, kept trying my own ideas and eventually met someone with a problem I could solve who was willing to finance the development.
That doesn't mean every project will work. Most of mine didn't.
And I certainly didn't know at 19 that this would become the business we sold at 23.
I'd gladly do the work again. I just wish I'd trusted my own ability earlier and taken the ownership conversation as seriously as I took the programming.
Ecombaba retweeted
Me 3 years ago :
- 50k debts
- Criminal record
- Can’t get a normal job
- Breakup after 7 years relationship
- Kicked out of house
- Moved back to parents house
- No friends left
- Failed son
I would never become successful if all those things didn’t happen to me.
Let me explain it :
The -50k debts made me realize that I had to make a lot of money and fast. I started to think big and I started taking action immediately.
I started to do my research and I heard that @EcomMatrix & @ecomlegend which are both from my city became rich in a very short amount of time.
I know them both from childhood so I opened my old IG account and messaged them both.
They ignored me and were gatekeeping everything so after asking around I found out that they do dropshipping.
I was mad at them back then but understood them later.
I had to move fast, no time to lose.
I didn't believe in myself so I contacted my childhood best friend, a super smart guy that just finished university and showed him that there is money in this. We decided to start a business together immediately.
Unfortunately everything we tried together failed.. he came to my house at some point and said in a nice way that he wants to stop and is going to work 9-5 again with his degree.
I understood him, thinking back I would have done exactly the same if I was him.
But I was in a situation where I had to make it. There was no other option left.
Meanwhiles I tried to get a job as well but I kept getting refused by every company because of my criminal record.
So I asked my father full of shame if he can help me to get a job in the factory he is working in. He has a managing role so he gave me a job in his team. I started working full-time in shifts like 22:00 until 06:00.
When I came home I made coffee and started working on my business until dinnertime, I slept a couple hours and went back to the factory.
I was still running a unprofitable business. My situation even got worse.
I had literally lost all my motivation, I lost my mind and started punching my wall.
I was about to give up..
I remember me saying:
"Ya Allah, I can't take it anymore”
“Ya Rabbi, show me a way out”
After a while my mother knocked on my door, she brought me a cup of coffee, a sandwich and a small heart shaped paper saying “I love you”.
She looked at me and said, son I know you are in a hard situation now but I believe in you. In a couple years from now we will be speaking about nice things together.
I couldn’t look back at her. I wanted to tell her that my situation is worse than she thinks but no word came out just tears.
Tears are not paying the bills unfortunately.
I didn't believe in myself anymore but my mother did.
I manned up and started grinding again.
Everything changed, I made money through dropservicing and started dropshipping again.
Nothing failed anymore.
I was deep in the grind every single day and ended up in Dubai running 5 different businesses.
I literally reached higher levels than the people I used to look up to without realizing it.
TRUST THE PROCESS.
Allah already had a plan for me. I just had to be patient.
“And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him a way out. And will provide for him from where he does not expect.” - Quran 65:2-3
Ecombaba retweeted
Okay let's start. With the EASY 100k/month. 🥷🏼
By the way, will share much more results later on. This is just a warming up hihii. 🤣
Here a quick 100k/month with 1 of my 5 shops. I just opened this one end of May. ☺️
The reason why I am not sharing results now is because of the evil eyes, when I close a shop I will show the results. 🙃
Why I share this? Because ECOM was never that easy to hit 100k/month. 💯
Now I have your attention so read it. 💭
- Get a good supplier for your META Assets and Structures.
(Don't work with an ad-acc agency, it's a scam. Find one supplier who can deliver very strong personal ad-accounts.) 🌐
- Get a good supplier for engagement profiles so you can get much more from your ADS. (Build a team who can do this, take it inhouse.) 🌐
- Get a good supplier for your TrustPilot Profile.
(Build a long term dropship shop what is sustainable so you can make consistent money) ✅
Okay okay, how I can find all these suppliers?
I have 1 PLUG what I use for all this different stuff.. 🥶
RT + COMMENT "PLUG" and I'll share it with you like the tweet too (You must be following). 🪵
Ecombaba retweeted
I AM FREE.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 3 YEARS I CAN LEAVE ROMANIA.
THE SHAM CASE IS FALLING APART.
$DADDY X THEREALWORLD GLOABL TOUR LOADING -
Will you be there? Jointherealworld.com
Ecombaba retweeted
Wassup, Cryptoguys!
If you left Dubai broke last year, no worries! Your comeback journey is close.
Once you are ready we will help you open a company, fix everything, and make Dubai your home sweet home again.🏠
Are you ready to come back?
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Ecombaba retweeted
Living a life where people know you but know nothing about you is such a "BABA" thing 👑
Ecombaba retweeted
Mafia wasn’t about dealing drugs and owing guns
Mafia was about making money and being as strong as possible.
Having a network full of strong men who make money
Standing up for yourself not being afraid to lose money or of fighting.
New age mafia exists legally.
Ecombaba retweeted
What a fucking event
MadeMen 2023 @CarlWeische
@ArianCyrus_ @EcomBaba
Hats off
Will be joining you at all the future ones as well
Ecombaba retweeted
As happy as I am #Ramadan has begun, I’m sad my brother @Cobratate isn’t here with me. He was looking forward to spending his 1st Ramadan with his brothers, we even planned Umrah during it also. His 1st Ramadan is in a jail cell, that’s not right. May Allah make it easy on him.
