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If you live in Silicon Valley, California, then today’s podcast episode is for you. Over 50% of the podcast listeners, people who are subscribed and who listen to this podcast are from Silicon Valley from the Bay Area. And all of them, most of them are radio listeners that listen to my radio shows. This is a question, but this was never presented to me, like a question, but I kind of took it out from a series of conversations. What does it take for you to succeed in Silicon Valley? And different answers to this question at different times? If you would ask me this question, a year from now, I may have a different answer. If you would have asked me this question. 10 years ago, I would have had for sure a different answer. And I know this because even my answer kept on changing when I was asking myself from the outside, it looks very easy. And from inside, for somebody who is really playing the game, this is there are a lot of complexities and a lot of things that one has to maneuver if not, Master.
Now, let’s for a second assume that you are not in Silicon Valley. And you don’t have a question on how to succeed in Silicon Valley. Well, the principles do apply doesn’t matter whether you live in Silicon Valley or not. So I have made many references to Silicon Valley. And one of the references I made was three dominating references here three dominating comments. One is that you need to be in the top 1% of 1%. To live, work, and exist, live work, and exist in Silicon Valley. Exist means you know when you’re not working. And when you’re not really living. But you still are fighting to survive somehow. That’s what I mean when I say exist. And you know that when you fight when you hustle it through, you scramble yourself during the time when you don’t have work, you would have any opportunity, you know that if you stay longer than you will make it and you’ll make up for everything that you lost. That’s what Silicon Valley is. So top 1% or 1%, you’re here which means your top 1% Doesn’t matter. What your education is, doesn’t matter whether you’re a male, or female, whatever way you want, you identify yourself, doesn’t matter whether you have any financial, economic, or educational background, or you do not don’t matter how you came here, but you are here, then you are in top 1% or 1%. I also made a statement here that if it doesn’t matter what you do, there are many professionals in Silicon Valley, in the Bay Area, doesn’t matter what you do. But as long as you’re living, working, and existing here, you are a techie.
This was another statement I made on a radio show, you are a techie, you, you are listening to technology, you are seeing big, big companies as you’re driving on the freeways here. So you are a techie. And that’s how I look at you. Because you are having conversations that are unique and different than anybody else living on the other side of the Earth, or, for that matter. On the other side of the country, I also made one more statement that now has gone viral and vital. I should say that or not? But in the 50-mile radius from where you live, there are over 50 Nobel Prize winners in the 50-mile radius from where you live. It’s crazy. What kind of knowledge, what kind of wisdom, what kind of enlightenment exists in the valley? So there’s a lot that’s happening. There’s a lot that’s going on here. And for anybody to succeed, you need to have an eye for it. skills, talents, all those are given that’s why you are here. So there is nothing you should think about and demotivate yourself. Now, that said, over the years, I have gone through many different analogies of what it takes to succeed in Silicon Valley.
And today, at the time of the recording of this podcast, I have three things that I know for sure that you need to have to succeed in anybody three things and it doesn’t matter. Again, no specific industry or any of that. Just three things The first is, in fact, three hours. Let’s say that that way, three hours, three hours of Silicon Valley, okay? The first art is a resume, your resume, things that you do things that you have accomplished, and things that make you stand out. Things that are unique to you things that really speak about you to people who do not know you. Things that represent truly who you are to an outside world that has no time to connect with you talk to you or understand you. Things that make you shine. That’s the resume. Now when I say resume, I’m not talking about a one-page printout or two-page printout. That’s not what a resume means. A resume means everything that you do that otherwise can be consumed by somebody else, while you’re not doing it. For example, you make some posts on Facebook, you make some posts on LinkedIn, you write a blog post, whatever you do on social media on the media, doesn’t matter. And you go back, you go to sleep.
Now while you’re sleeping, this is doing its magic. This is working on your behalf. That’s what I mean by a resume. Well, by resume I also mean your skills, your talents, your capabilities, your strengths, everything that defines who you are everything that makes up your constitution, your existence, your job is to keep on improving the resume, your job is to keep on applying those skills over and over again and trying to see are there any cracks? Are there any gaps? What can I do to improve those skills? What Skills Should I bring in to strengthen to enhance my resume, you need to be constantly working on the resume and I’ll go I’ll die saying this. But I see people taking the resume for granted. You need to work on your resume on a daily basis. Impeccable people, incredible people who do some incredible things in the Valley have incredible resumes. writing resumes not English writing, the resume is not opening up the word file and typing things in. That’s not what I mean by a resume means acting upon things that you know that you need to do for you to get to that level where you want to get to that only you know, nobody else knows. So that’s the first part. The second arm is relationships, relationships, I didn’t say relationship. I said relationships, plural. Your relationship with yourself is the single biggest thing that’s going to set you apart and create success for you. Have you handled stress how do you handle anxiety, overwhelm, frustration, chaos, and any and every kind of thing that’s going to challenge your beliefs, your convictions, and your emotions?
How do you handle what’s going to set you apart to make you the best in your relationship with people in your profession? What kind of relationships do you have, how do you define those relationships are your friend in need your friend in deed, and it means like a contract deed not indeed deed, or you or you are not seeing your relationships define the connections. And there’s a lot of wealth in those connections. Now, apart from all those relationships, there is one relationship that really stands out which is your relationship with your spouse or your partner or your relationship in the house inside the house could be your parents, your spouse, your children, or whoever your siblings over life with you. What is that relationship? See, I can tell you this for sure. And so again, this is not mine, I read it somewhere no outside success can make up for the failure at home. If you don’t have good relationships at home then doesn’t matter how successful you become outside.
So, if I have to rate I would rate relationships higher than the resume. Okay. Let’s see. Okay, so in the finally the last one, the last one is the third odd Third up for success in Silicon Valley is real estate. When I say real estate, I mean investments, and there’s no better investment than real estate in Silicon Valley people tell me about all the sparks and, and everything. And now but now given where we are, and at the time of this recording this podcast recording, we are sure the market is slowing down. And it’s the end of the year, it’s going to slow down even more holiday syrup. In a week’s time, we’ll have Halloween, I, you know, listen, it doesn’t matter. The bottom line is if you’re not in real estate, you know that you’re not in real estate, you don’t own a house, and you don’t have investments. So then your financial situation is challenging. If you have a house, and that you had for a while, let’s say, then your financial situation is reasonably stable. There could be other things going on. So sucks. If you measure success through money, then I highly suggest that get into real estate-owned real estate. And it’s going to set you free, I promise you. And I see that happen over and over again across anybody that I come across. Okay. Those are the three Rs. You need to do resumes, relationships, resume, relationships, and real estate.
Hopefully, this is helpful. Let me know if it is okay. I’ll tell you something very interesting. As I wrap this up, if you’re taking notes, write those three things down resume relationship, real estate, 10 years from now, 15 years from now. I’m not sure if I’ll be around. But listen, go back and read, you’ll see as I’m recording the podcast, because hopefully, the sound comes you’ll see that these are the pages of notes that have been taken over the years. And I have them with me. And some of these notes are also now scanned and are on my hard drive. But some I have in the physical shape here, and some are on the notebooks. I take notes. So take these three things as a note today. Those are my relationships in real estate 1015 years from now, come back and open up your notebook and see and this will remind you that Yeah, you heard the podcast and took notes. And I promise you there are two emotions that will come out of it. One is that I wish I would have listened to Srini what said, or I listened to Srini see where I am. I just happened to be here but I took notes and acted upon them. I’m glad I did. And my life changed for good. These are two emotions. The third emotion. She told me to buy real estate and investment real estate relationships and I built up a resume I did all three. I failed. Not gonna happen. Not in Silicon Valley.
Okay, that’s the homework for you. I’m done. I don’t want to add anything more to this. Okay, I’ll leave it there. I’ll leave you there for a Saturday. This is good. I’ll catch up with you tomorrow. Stay tuned.