When Influence Enters the Arena of Consequence

Just before COVID, I had direct conversations with Andrew Tate while he was exploring casino operations in Romania. I told him plainly that casinos weren’t as consequential as markets—especially during lockdowns, when markets were the only arena still fully alive.

At the time, his attention was split between coins and forex, while my focus was on investment ideas experimenting with early-stage authorship. That misalignment became clear as he watched some of my calls: it dawned on me that he didn’t have a sophisticated understanding of markets, though he was respectful. Yet he was already selling courses on the subject as an influencer.

Influencers win by controlling narrative.

Real operators win by absorbing consequence.

Boxing is one of the few arenas where talk cannot mask execution.

When the bell rings, presence is audited in real time.