Faruk Ilkhan
4.7K posts
Bought a Lamborghini with my brother @ecomfatih
I started building in public on X exactly 1 year ago: 🧑💻 Quit my 9-5 💰 Launched my first SaaS ($1k+ MRR) 🌏 Visited Bangkok 🇹🇭 Bali 🇮🇩 Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾 Da Nang 🇻🇳 📱 Launched an IOS app 📚 Learned a lot of marketing + business - 9,750 followers 📈 - 33.1M+ impressions - 6,145 posts - 102.7K+ likes ❤️ It was probably one of the best decisions I made in my entire life 🫡 Thanks everyone following my journey 🙏
In my teens and 20's I would spend way too much time playing Starcraft and Civilization. Harvesting resources, building things, and expanding was super addictive to my brain - to an almost unhealthy degree. Later I realized that entrepreneurship and business is the ultimate game. It scratches the same itch for me (resources, building, expanding), but you're actually contributing to humanity at the end of the day, which can be much more fulfilling. Business is also much more positive sum than video games. In Starcraft, the other player has to lose for you to win. In business, there is competition, but in a growing market there can be multiple winners. And gains compound long term (it's a infinite game) instead of starting over each time. Now days I prefer to watch pros play video games to unwind, instead of playing video games myself. But a quick game can still be fun here and there to unwind. By contrast, the game of business is played over many decades.
