James Wang

How two college students at Cornell made $500k from $3000 from one play in their dorm:

Dropping out of Cornell was the scariest thing I've ever done. Everyone thought I was throwing my life away. My parents were worried. My peers thought I was delusional. Turns out betting on yourself is only scary until it works. Then people call it a great decision. Same decision. Different result. Completely different narrative. Nobody writes think pieces about the bet. Only the outcome.

Everyone I know who made it did the same thing. They picked one thing and went so deep into it that the market had no choice but to reward them. Not two things. Not a portfolio of skills acquired for networking purposes. One thing. Obsessively. For years. I picked crypto at 12 years old when my friends thought I was weird for caring about it. That one thing compounded into everything else.

I've had a great year in 2025 with my businesses at 18: Here are 7 lessons from building millions at 18: 1. There are no secret cheat codes I used to think successful people had a hidden path nobody talked about. After building multiple businesses and making multiple angel investments across ecom, SaaS, fintech, and crypto The skills that create success are always the same: → Hard work → Focus → Discipline → Commitment to one path The business model doesn't matter. Becoming the person who executes consistently does. 2. Your focus is finite. Protect it. I was working 100+ hours a week and calling it a badge of honor. Most of it was noise. A founder running a $40M ARR SaaS company told me: "If your business needs you working 80 hours a week, you don't have a business. You have an expensive job." I audited my week. 70% of my activity was low-leverage and could have been done by someone else. I'd rather someone take my money than my mental energy. 3. No one hands you a curriculum I dropped out of college at 17. By 18, I was managing 7-figure portfolios and negotiating term sheets. Most 18-year-olds worry about college parties. But the biggest thing I learned? You have to build your own structure. You have to own your own education. Nobody is coming to hand it to you. 4. Trust is earned slowly and lost instantly A close friend/team member lost $1 million in a single social engineering attack. One screen share. One phishing call. Gone. Visible wealth at young comes with a target on your back. Implement OPSEC. Use 2FA. Never discuss specific holdings publicly. 5. Build systems that run without you I was the bottleneck in everything. Creating content. Onboarding members. Answering questions. Analyzing trades. All me. All the time. Then two team members quit at once. Instead of replacing them, I asked: What if we just stopped doing half of this? I spent 3 months building systems. Month 4 — I was working 15 hours a week. Quality went up. Revenue doubled. Team went from 11 people down to 6. One exceptional person is worth ten average ones. Not just for output but for the standard they set culturally. A players attract A players. B players make other B players comfortable. 6. Imperfect action always beats perfect planning I'm a perfectionist. When I launched my community Fortune Collective, I wanted everything perfect. The systems. The content. The onboarding. I launched anyway, with 3 pieces of content and DMing people manually as onboarding. That messy launch became a 7-figure community. Action creates information. Information improves decisions. Better decisions create better outcomes. You will learn more in one week of doing than 6 months of planning. 7. Cash is king In April, the market crashed. But I had dry powder. I deployed money across 5 positions at peak fear. Those positions returned great profit over the next 5 months. When everyone panics cash is power. - JW

@shaams Bro wtf

thot daughter or son who talks about Clav like this?

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@arviemov Goat

I use to be homeless 4 years ago couch hopping, waking up every morning at 6am to go swimming and then going to uni classes, than go to the library to do homework and work on my business, go home, cry my bed to sleep than rinse and repeat. As the years go by and I became more and more successful, I necessarily didn’t become happier, but I guess less complacent. Now looking back at those hard times I miss it to an extent. I don’t give myself much credit and did pretty well for a 22 year old. This year alone I exited a company I was a key part of to the biggest crypto company in the world, and been killing it at my new job, angel invested in some companies that have tremendously well. My next goal I’m dreaming big, and I know soon I will get there. Follow my page to follow along the journey. I’ll be posting a bit more often now. I ordered a burger and I’m waiting for it to come while writing this post, but I can’t figure out how to fix my eyelids, despite sleeping for 8 hours a day. My parents don’t have it so I can’t figure out how.

for some reason despite majors PA, i feel very optimistic right now onchain and crypto have evolved to the point that there will always be opportunities, no matter what $btc is trading at not to mention that if the intersection of crypto & ai continues to develop, we'll only see more skilled builders launch projects onchain that you can catch early (there will definitely be more $molt type plays in the next year) im very confident that as long as you try to actually become a good trader rather than just make fast money (devving, scamming, gambling, etc), you will be able to consistently outperform crypto on a higher timeframe so yes, maybe bundles, low volume, etc are an issue right now, but thats only in the short term when you zoom out, its obvious that there will only be more money that flows into crypto as the internet continues to develop. you only need to capture a fraction of a % of this to "make it"

i think setting goals of $/month as a trader is extremely -ev its kinda corny but your only goal should be being the best trader possible crypto is way too unpredictable to set financial goals (besides more long term ones & even those will ultimately change due to market conditions) attaching yourself to a number will make you more emotional the further/closer you get to it as well e.g. you might get lazy if you hit the $10k goal within the first 7 days of the month however, if you focus on consistently improving your skills & being the best trader possible, money will inevitably follow some months you'll outperform, in others you'll underperform/be flat but regardless, you're making the most out of the market in front of you rather than emotionally chasing an arbitrary goal

@shaams Sending ur tweet back to Alex heaven

he stole my tweet DO NOT ENGAGE x.com/WBJcrypto/stat…

i think setting goals of $/month as a trader is extremely -ev its kinda corny but your only goal should be being the best trader possible crypto is way too unpredictable to set financial goals (besides more long term ones & even those will ultimately change due to market conditions) attaching yourself to a number will make you more emotional the further/closer you get to it as well e.g. you might get lazy if you hit the $10k goal within the first 7 days of the month however, if you focus on consistently improving your skills & being the best trader possible, money will inevitably follow some months you'll outperform, in others you'll underperform/be flat but regardless, you're making the most out of the market in front of you rather than emotionally chasing an arbitrary goal

@WBJcrypto why are you stealing my tweets go steal some pnls larp x.com/shaams/status/…

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Pov: you took a screenshot instead of taking profits

@SolLunix Oh nah.

@SuppressDev @CookerFlips just lol.

Hanging out with @CookerFlips today We took the yacht out with the team and i flew in @CookerFlips We chatted about his long-term vision about SUB 5 ABGs and at the end of the day I put his first Rolex on his wrist. 🏆 Seeing a friend's face when you take him out, show him the life, and hand him something he'll pass down reminded me why any of this is worth it. All respect to him, WAGMI @CookerFlips ❤️🙏

@notalexchoi @CookerFlips @shaams bro

@shaams Warming up for the trenches

wagmi