Thread by @Trinitosss_

🧵1/49 How I went from -$25k in debt, making 415$ per 15 days to $1M2 in 1 year at 25 years old while being in the army. 🫡

A story of pain, resilience, commitment and hard work. 👇

2/49 In this thread, you will find my story and the 6 revenue streams that got me to where I am right now:

👉Army
👉Tournaments
👉Analyst side job
👉Crypto
👉NFT project
👉B2B Lead Generation

3/49 First of all, I’ll give some brief context about me that’s relevant to this thread but won’t go into all the details to avoid making this thread too long (it already is).

4/49 I was in the army for 3 years, learning to become a pilot✈️, which was pretty much my dream career.

The reason I’m not in the army anymore is that I suffered a lot of injuries over those 3 years, some of them major. 🏥

5/49 Those major injuries pretty much made me feel constant pain for the majority of those 3 years I spent in the army, leading to poor quality of sleep/life most of the time

I lived through the pain and got accustomed to it eventually, mainly by looking at my end goal (pilot)

6/49 It’s important to mention that getting access to this pilot career was my first major achievement in itself. The success rate of the aircrew exams is around 2%. ✅

I got it and didn’t want to let some shitty injuries (hip, labrum tears, fractured spine...) ruin it for me

7/49 Enough for the context. Let’s dive into how I made it

First of all, I always enjoyed gaming competitively, and in the middle of the covid thing, there weren’t many activities to do.

For that reason, I started doing a lot of Warzone tournaments and won a lot of em.

8/49 Some of you guys on my Twitter know me for this reason, I won about 25 tournaments 🥇, got many more 2nd place 🥈, and overall won about $15k in a year thanks to those tournaments.

9/49 I’m a big believer that if you’re at something, you will eventually find opportunities related to that something.

That something can be truly anything. For me at that time, it was playing Warzone and being really good at it.

10/49 That statement was particularly true for me, and it was thanks to my passion for competitive Warzone that I met 2 guys @AH00DIE and @gotchocolated (now my partners on @STYLLARNFT ), running arguably the biggest Warzone tournament organization at the time @mainlandgaming

11/49 A couple of discussions with @gotchocolated led to my third revenue stream.

I started working for @mainlandgaming during the weekends, essentially filtering players' stats/vods trying to find cheaters and cleaning the leaderboard.

12/49 My hate for cheaters made me pretty good at the job, and the job got me an extra 400$ per weekend which was substantial at the time for me.

In the army, as an officer cadet, I earned about 415$ per 15 days so I’ll let you imagine how good is 400$ per weekends…

13/49 The witch hunting for cheaters was kinda fun not gonna lie. When there’s money involved in a tournament, you bet there will be a couple of cheaters.

In every tournament we caught many, and they all faced the ban hammer, no exception made.

14/49 I remember one day I caught a guy and we weren’t sure about him watching his vods.

The only reason we caught him is that I remembered his voice in another stream, on another account he was using and blatantly cheating on months ago. 🤣🫡

15/49 Anyway, this story isn’t relevant to the whole thread but does in some way show how much I pay attention to the details, and that definitely helped me for the rest.

16/49 At that time I had about $15k in debt from previous University studies.

I wanted to make more money, I was tired of being broke with a fully loaded $2k credit card that I couldn’t repay.

17/49 That’s when I started getting interested in crypto, which is going to become my 4th revenue stream later on.

Anyone actively playing in the market probably remembers what the 2020 dip looked like both for stock and crypto.

18/49 That’s precisely where I got into crypto thanks to #Dogecoin popularity at the time.

It’s important to mention that I always treated crypto like a job 🧠, never like a casino. I know that many normies will find this confusing, but there’s a clear difference here.

19/49 Finance/crypto/stocks was a completely new world to me, I knew I was going to make tons of mistakes, so I started small.

Had like $200 turn into $1k in Dogecoins, and that’s when I really deep-dived in bitcoin and the altcoin world.

20/49 I didn’t have much free time left. Being at the military college, you’re constantly solicited for taskings, studies or exercises + I was working every weekend.

We were confined on base during the beginning of covid, so I was living like a hermit during the weekend. 🫥

21/49 I pulled crazy hours pretty much every day, waking up at 5h am, going to sleep at 1h am.. I wouldn’t recommend it.

Truth is, as I was learning this crypto stuff, I knew the timing was right and it wouldn’t always be like this (massive bull run from 2020 to 2022 Nov-Dec).

22/49 Now in the first post I said I was in debt 25k, how did that happen?

Well at that time I was so confident about crypto and $LUNA particularly, that I literally borrowed $10k from the bank and put it all in crypto alongside all the money I was funnelling from other sources

23/49 Stupid or calculated risk, I’ll let you judge of that, but here was my reasoning:

We were in a confirmed bull run, $LUNA was very promising alongside $SOL and I was becoming a pilot in the army.

$10k was an amount I could afford to lose with a pilot pay.. Right?

24/49 Well now I can say that it worked, but BOY I WAS WRONG 🛑 about taking the pilot career for granted.

I rode $LUNA all that time, it went from $5 to $22 (happy me), took no profit, and it went back to $4.5 in May 2021 (now I learned the take profit lesson).

25/49 I was down in money at that point, but I understood that we were still in a huge bull run, and #terra the blockchain which has $LUNA as the main token, kept pushing very promising projects/updates.

The #lunatics community around it was also pretty strong.

26/49 I doubled down on it even harder with all the money I was making, and surely it took off to 122$ (with ups and down in between).

And that time, I did take profit, thanks to the valuable lesson learned a couple of months earlier.

27/49 Now how did I learn crypto specifically, and what are my 2 other revenue streams?

Well while learning crypto, and terra (in dept), I made a website called Learn Terra.

28/49 It was fairly simple, learning crypto is kinda hard for beginners because the information is scattered everywhere and at the start, you don’t know what is good information and what is trash.

29/49 Bottom line, I put all the good stuff about Terra on 1 website, helped tons of people and grew my network tremendously at that time.

I also joined a group of people with a lot of experience in Crypto. That speeded up the process a lot for me.

30/49 Now I just want to do a quick context parallel so the rest makes sense. It was approximately at that time, in the summer of 2021 that I got my last major injury in the army.

I broke my spine.

31/49 I’m going to be real, that was a hard pill to swallow.

Financially I was doing great.

Physically and mentally I was at the lowest I ever was.

That new injury was another major one, I had just recovered from my labrum tear that took 6 months and here I was again in pain.

32/49 I lived the past 2 years at that point in constant physical pain. Sometimes the pain would make sleeping pretty much impossible.

The labrum tear to my shoulder for example, if I moved the arm during my sleep you better be sure the pain was waking me up.

33/49 The broken spine was worse.

You try sleeping with a broken spine.

Guarantee you will just want to punch the fucking wall and wonder why you exist at that time.

And it will be like that for.. months..

34/49 You might think, what about morphine?

Shit didn’t work for that one.

+ I never was a pill guy, I always lived with the pain, trying to be as livid as possible.

They wanted to give me pills for depression also.. Let’s just say that wasn’t for me.

35/49 It really was a weird sensation.

I had the best financial success of my life

But I also had the worst physical and mental shape of my life.

My mental wasn’t helped by the fact that I had just definitely lost the dream career I pushed for during many years of preparation.

36/49 Anyway, enough with the context.

Just know that it played a key role in forming who I am now.

Here’s what happened after with all the free time I got from forced sitting for 1y.

37/49 Having a huge network on Terra and new connections IRL allowed me to do something I never did before, a lead generation business.

You see, at the peak of the bull run, every project/founder was looking for smart contracts developers (#rust) mainly.

38/49 I had access to a software company offering that service and so I started linking up the founders/projects with this company.

I made that software company around $700k in 5 months. I was personally getting around 10% of each sale.

39/49 In hindsight, I probably wasn’t charging as much as I should have for this business model, especially since the leads I was given were pretty warm ones.

I’d be genuinely curious to know how someone like @LeeviEerola would be charging for this type of lead.

40/49 Btw quick plug here for @LeeviEerola because as I am learning more about the lead generation business aspect, that guy is giving a lot of value in this field + he’s ex mil as well.

Here’s his new 119 pages document about lead generation: docs.google.com/document/d/1z7…

41/49 Using my experience in crypto and my network, I also launched in October 2021 a pretty complex NFT project named Styllar alongside @AH00DIE and @gotchocolated.

Remember, those were the 2 dudes I met working on Mainland Gaming

42/49 You see how sometimes opportunities just show themselves, from gaming to a successful NFT project with the same people.

A lot of you guys on Twitter know me because of Styllar. Just know that the team and I are still working on it and planning to be way ahead.

43/49 Styllar was a huge success at launch, and we want to bring back the hype around it in the next NFT cycle.

Terra crash definitely setted us back a bit on this, but as you know Styllar is already migrated to Polygon and we’re still recoding all the smart contracts.

44/49 Since this summer, I am officially out of the army for medical reasons.

My current plan is to scale my businesses during 2023, and stabilize my revenue streams.

As most of you guys know, the market was pretty trash in 2022, and I got hit by it as well.

45/49 I plan on rebranding this Twitter and focusing mainly on creating valuable content and bringing you guys alongside me in the journey.

You guys can expect content around the money Twitter niche (not crypto Twitter only anymore).

46/49 I’ll be mostly focusing on business (lead generation, ecommerce), real estate and the crypto + stock market.

It’s no secret however that stock/crypto markets + real estate market are not very good right now, so we might look at end of 2023, early 2024 for results on those

47/49 As for eCommerce, my target is probably around mid 2023. I’m actively learning about it thanks to @ecomwithbrook free (in-depth) course. Highly recommend his channel if you’re looking to get into eCommerce as well.

Quick plug as well, but I recognize value when I see it.

48/49 Through my journey filled with obstacles, I learned a lot about myself and what I could do.

I genuinely believe people can achieve anything they want.

It simply requires resilience, commitment and hard work, and that’s simply a mindset.

49/49 If you found my story interesting and if any of those topics interest you, please drop that follow.

I’ll make sure to make it one of your most valuable follow of 2023.

Happy new year everyone!