Tai Lopez is an entrepreneur, internet personality, YouTuber, and investor from America. His name is familiar to those who usually watch YouTube.
Lopez is known for his Here In My Garage ads that make anyone want to visit his website to learn how he became so rich! He refers to money as freedom units.
Why is Tai Lopez the most talked about name in the virtual business? Read further to know who he is and where his wealth comes from.
Tai Lopez: A Brief Bio
He embarked on his journey on the platform Facebook almost fifteen years back in 2008. Then he used Facebook as a marketing tool and a medium to attract viewers. Tai Lopez is popularly known as the self-help guru of the online business world.
He got a breakthrough in 2015 when one of his YouTube videos that he shot in his garage went viral. In the video, he was seen arguing that books can provide one with more benefits than a Lamborghini.
His website now offers many training and mentorship programs that included a high-ticket Business Bootcamp. He holds an American passport.
Tai Lopez: Birth, Age, And Early Years
Tai Lopez was born on April 11, 1977, in Long Beach California, and he is 45 years old. He was assigned the birthname of Taino Adrain Lopez.
The constant presence in his childhood was his mother and grandmother as his father was serving his term in prison. Lopez was influenced by his grandfather, who was a successful man and the father figure of his life. He had cultivated an entrepreneurial mindset as a young lad at the age of six when he helped his mother to sell cherry tomato bags.
Later he said that his mother used to sell a bag for 25 cents and that part of his life helped him to learn the importance of demand in business. He realized that the cherry tomato business was not making any profit for his mother, and he came up with the idea of selling lemonade with sugar.
He found out that there was more demand for lemonade with sugar rather than cherry tomato bags. He said that when he started the lemonade business he was able to make 2.50 US dollars in the time he could only sell a 25-cent bag of the previous business. Lopez acknowledged this as the incident that taught him the value of taking risks in a business.
Tai had created an intimate bond with his grandfather, who was a scientist. He recalled that he who missed the presence of his father, turned to his grandfather to learn the essence of life and asked the latter for help through a letter.
The reply letter that young Tai received from his grandfather had the lines the modern world was too complicated and no one would be able to find all the answers from one just person. The letter read that if one had luck then he would have a handful of people throughout his life who would point the way forward. Tai to this day looks out for the handful of people that his grandfather mentioned.
Tai Lopez Books
Lopez was an introverted child while growing up. As his boyhood days were spent in the 80s Long Beach had a growing number of gangs he diverted to find friends through books.
Along with the reply letter, his grandfather had also sent him a box containing eleven books
He said that he had read Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle at a young age, which he had helped him to cultivate the idea that he calls a Good Life.
Lopez considers a good life is a balance of four major pillars of life such as health, wealth, love, and happiness.
Tai Lopez: Travel Around The World
His habit of reading books made him want to travel around the world and to see the places that he read about and meet the people that he read about. Lopez has traveled through 51 countries and funded himself by working a variety of jobs including one in a leper colony, a colony in which a community of isolated people suffering from leprosy lives.
He in his vast travel have been to Argentina, India, New Zealand, and Australia.
Lopez follows the book-a-day habit in his life.
He thinks the most valuable lesson that he learned in his is Do the hardest thing in your day first.
Is it possible to read an entire book in a day?
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Well, what Lopez does is he takes a book, reads the table of contents, then skims through the pages, and he would finally lands on one specific chapter that he has been looking for, he calls it one or two nuggets.
Tai Lopez: Professional Career
In 2007 he became the owner of Elite Global Dating, LLC
He runs a successful podcast under the name The Grand Theory of Everything.
Lopez has a 67 Steps Program where he does business mentorships, inner circles, and conferences on virtual platforms.
Lopez is the cofounder of Mentorbox, a subscription-based program that he founded with Alex Mehr, a business entrepreneur, and a former NASA scientist.
Mentorbox is a rather different approach to a book club in which the authors themselves appear to teach and talk about their books through written notes and summaries.
In 2017 he was one among the list of Top Influencers in Technology and Business.
Tai Lopez’s Net Worth
Tai Lopes has an estimated net worth of 60 million US dollars.
Lopez, however, has scarcely been interested in revealing how much he has accumulated in his bank account.
Once in a Podcast with Logan Paul, an American social media personality, on being asked about how much he was worth of he did not say an exact answer but said that thinking that he was of 50 million US dollars it would be underestimating.
In another instance, when he was participating in a webinar, he said that he makes roughly 3 million to 5 million US dollars per year. In the webinar, he was asked whether he was making 3 million a month, to which he sarcastically replied that if he makes 3 million in a single month he might get a heart attack.
Tai Lopez: Now
He is settled in a 44 million US dollars worth of mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Tai Lopez’s partner is Kenna Alastair.
Tai Lopez: Brands Acquired
Bodybuilding.com, Wilhelmina, Ralph & Russo, Pier1, RadioShack, dressbarn, Stein Mart, Linens N Things, The Franklin Mint, Modell’s Sporting Goods, The Book People, Farmers Cart, mosh, and ESR Holdings.
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