In 2014, Louis Vuitton just dropped 120,000 gummy bears into a single artwork...

Haribo, Mars, and Trolli were outraged by this rising candy superstar.

That genius move changes everything...

Here's the untold story of Albanese and how it could destroy Haribo for good:

Scott Albanese was born to Italian immigrants in Northwest Indiana.

Raised with a strong work ethic, he ran a construction business in his 20s.

Wanting a fun, creative venture, he made a bold pivot, fueled by hope.

In 1983, Albanese took the biggest gamble of his life...

Muammar Gaddafi wasn’t just Libya’s dictator.

He secretly built a $200 BILLION fortune, making him richer than Bill Gates, Zuck, and Bezos.

Here’s how oil money, secret banks, and corruption created the richest dictatorship in history: 🧵
Gaddafi wasn’t just a dictator.

He built a $200 BILLION hidden empire bigger than Libya’s GDP making him the richest dictator in history.

Here’s how oil money turned into one of the greatest secret fortunes ever built:

Dubai was once a small fishing village with no oil and a bleak future.

Today, it’s a $110B economy, a playground for billionaires, and a global hub heads and shoulders above Europe and America.

Here’s how Dubai pulled off the greatest pivot of the 20th century: 🧵
In the 1950s, Dubai had a population of just 20,000.

Its lifeline was pearl diving and small-scale trade.

When Japan's cultured pearls destroyed the industry,

Dubai was left with nothing, proving that resource scarcity can be fatal for weak nations.

Peter Thiel built a company that literally helps the US elite military decide who lives and dies.

It can access all of your financial, health, and personal data and quietly runs the US government.

Welcome to Palantir.

America's deadliest weapon yet... 🧵 In 2003, fresh off PayPal's sale, Peter Thiel had a vision.

Not for social media or e-commerce.

But for something darker: a company that would weaponize data like never before.

He named it Palantir, after the all-seeing stones in Lord of the Rings.

This 22-year-old college dropout just proved every marketing team is obsolete.

He raised $15M in 10 weeks with zero traditional marketing.

His secret? An army of TikTokers that costs less than one Super Bowl second.

Here's how he's destroying the $600B marketing industry:🧵 Meet Roy Lee (@roylee0705).

Got rescinded from Harvard. Blacklisted from Big Tech.

Built a tool to cheat on coding interviews that went viral with 250M views.

Then he realized something every CEO is missing...

Football's dirtiest secret isn’t match-fixing or gambling.

It's how players, clubs, agents, and even family members LEGALLY LAUNDER millions in every transfer.

This made me lose sleep for weeks.

The true underground world of football transfers is insane... 🧵 In 2022, Man City announced Erling Haaland’s £51M release clause.

Another £34M went to his agent Mino Raiola and Haaland’s father—67% on top of the transfer fee, COMPLETELY HIDDEN from the fans.

And that's not even the craziest part...

In 1984, Dietrich Mateschitz orchestrated the coldest betrayal in business history…

He erased the real founder and stole the Redbull empire.

Then, through pure greed and deception, he turned a Thai tonic into an $80B monster.

This is how Red Bull really started... 🧵
As a marketing director in Germany, Mateschitz tried Krating Daeng on a trip to Bangkok.

Back then, energy drinks were virtually unknown globally.

Minutes later, he felt sharp and alert.

That's when he realized something powerful:

In 2012, Richard Mille was a struggling Swiss watchmaker.

No history. No prestige. Just one bold idea.

Then, at an elite watch show, he unveiled what looked like a plastic toy.

What he did next made Richard Mille into a $1.5B empire.

The greatest marketing stunt in history:
Mille priced the RM056 at $1.65 MILLION... amid a show full of cutting-edge tech and designs.

A plastic-looking watch stunned everyone

How could an outsider drop something so outrageous?

This was just the start of a revolution:

In 2024, a cartoon monster destroyed millions of savings accounts.

Meet Labubu – the $12 toy now selling for $7,000+.

Here's the dark untold economics behind history's most manipulative toy bubble: 🧵 First, let's understand what we're dealing with.

Labubu is a furry creature with rabbit teeth created by artist Kasing Lung.

Retail price? $12-15 per blind box.

Resale price? $300-7,000 depending on rarity.

That's a 58,000% markup.

We are watching the birth of America's first techno-feudalist empire.

• Zuckerberg bent the knee.
• Tim Cook gave Trump $1 million.
• Bezos censored his own newspaper.

This isn't normal corporate politics.

Here's what the future holds, and who is really profiting... 🧵 Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle warned us 2,300 years ago:

"Oligarchs have no loyalty to their nation. They'll betray their own people for profit."

In Athens, 400 oligarchs sold out their democracy to Sparta.

Today? Our oligarchs wear hoodies and talk about "disruption."

At 20 years old, this Singaporean stole $230 MILLION in Bitcoin.

He blew $500k PER NIGHT at clubs and bought 31 luxury cars.

Caught in 30 days.

But the story of how Malone Lam pulled off one of the craziest crypto heists ever literally blew my mind: 🧵 Meet Malone Lam.

20 years old. Unemployed. Overstaying his US visa.

Online aliases: "Anne Hathaway" and "$$$"

In August 2024, he targeted one man.

What happened next became the largest crypto theft from a single person in US history.

Amazon launched a full-scale attack to bankrupt this pet startup.

Bezos had Prime, faster shipping, and cheaper prices.

And Ryan Cohen? Love letters to dogs.

Today? Chewy is a $15B brand.

This is the insane story of how Chewy won the pet war against Bezos: 🧵
As of 2025, Chewy has grown into a $15B pet retail powerhouse, one of the few companies to beat Amazon at its own game.

So how did a scrappy startup operating out of a cramped Florida office manage to pull it off?

Here's the full story behind this epic David vs Goliath fight:

The richest man in American history wrote 38 secret letters to his son.

They weren't about money.

They were ruthless psychological principles J.D. Rockefeller used to build empires worth more than most countries.

Here's 9 principles he really taught his heir: 🧵 First, understand who Rockefeller was:

• Started in poverty, father was a con man
• Built Standard Oil from nothing
• Controlled 90% of U.S. oil refineries
• Worth $400 billion in today's money

But his greatest creation? These letters.

This man controls the world's 2nd largest economy with zero checks on his power.

But in 1969, Xi Jinping was just a cave-dwelling exile.

Here's the disturbing playbook he used to become China's dictator for life.

Everyone entrepreneur should understand this... 🧵

Xi's father was Mao's ally who helped win the Chinese civil war.

His reward? Being purged as an "enemy of the people."

15-year-old Xi watched his sister die and his family destroyed.

Then they sent him to live in a cave...

Sam Altman just built a doomsday bunker with weapons and survival supplies.

In 2017, Sam Altman warned AI would cause human extinction.

Today, he tells Congress AI is safe and beneficial.

The pattern of what's really coming blew my mind: 🧵 Let's start with the bunker.

Altman secretly built a fortified shelter stocked with:

- Antibiotics and medical supplies
- Hydroponic food systems
- Weapons for protection

This is the same man reassuring you AI is "controllable."

What does he know that you don't?

This man became a millionaire by convincing millions of men they're controlled by "Puppet Masters."

Then he deleted videos and footage
while blaming the Puppet Masters for censoring him.

I studied his rise and fall...
and here's what no one tells you about Iman Gadzhi: 🧵 Meet Iman Gadzhi.

At 23, he's built a multi-million dollar education empire.

His story? Escaped poverty through social media marketing, became a millionaire at 18.

But there's a darker side to this success story that few people know about...

This woman scammed JP Morgan out of $175 million.

She faked 4 million customers, fooled JP Morgan's due diligence team, and walked away with millions.

Caught for fraud...

But her downfall reveals something terrifying about major banks: 🧵
Meet Charlie Javice.

At 28, she was a Forbes "30 Under 30" darling who sold her startup Frank to JPMorgan for $175 million in 2021.

The problem? She claimed 4.25 million customers when she actually had only 300,000.

But here's where it gets interesting...

100 years ago, Charles Ponzi discovered the psychological trick that makes smart people do stupid things with money.

Today, scammers still use his exact playbook to steal billions.

Here's the dangerous psychology behind every "get rich quick" scheme: 🧵 Charles Ponzi wasn't born a criminal.

He was born into a fallen Italian noble family - once wealthy merchants, now his father was just a postman.

This early taste of "lost status" planted a dangerous seed in young Ponzi's mind...

This kid had the perfect childhood:

• 96th percentile SAT
• Eagle Scout like his dad
• Full scholarships to top universities

But then he built a $214M business that got DOUBLE life prison + 40 years.

How this all happened was crazy wild: 🧵 Meet Ross Ulbricht, born March 27, 1984, in Austin, Texas.

Perfect childhood. Perfect grades. Perfect future ahead of him.

He scored 1460 on his SATs and earned a full ride to University of Texas at Dallas for physics.

How do you bankrupt a multibillion-dollar company?

In 2014, GoPro was worth $11 BILLION.
Today? Only 2% of its value is left.

Founder Nick Woodman went from Silicon Valley's golden boy to a cautionary tale in a light switch.

The warning signs were so obvious...🧵 Nick Woodman wasn't always the action camera king.

His first startup, an electronics website, flopped completely.

His second venture crashed in the dot-com bubble, burning through $4 MILLION of investor money.

The iconic bite in Apple’s logo has nothing to do with:

• Alan Turing
• The forbidden fruit
• A wordplay on “byte”

The real reason is so stupidly simple yet so genius, it changed branding forever.

Here’s the untold story of Apple bite: 🧵 The Apple logo we know today wasn't the company's first.

In 1976, Apple's original logo showed Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree, surrounded by a quote from William Wordsworth.

It was detailed, but completely unusable for marketing.