The Answer Mark Cuban Is Looking For: Wallstreet + Silicon Valley = ?
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The Answer Mark Cuban Is Looking For: Wallstreet + Silicon Valley = ?

Mark Cuban has been vocal as of late and he’s getting mixed reviews about his thoughts on venture capital funding and the state of business.

Elon Musk has been going off the rails lately too, having a few meltdowns every day, talking about moving out of Silicon Valley, selling his house, etc.

So I wonder how serious these two are about actually making something happen. How much of this is PR and Marketing?

It seems like I’ve been hearing for the last 5 years about a need for a renaissance, especially with how forgettable the 2010s were.

The buzz of Wallstreet in the 80s was electric and it had a cult-like aura to it drawing thousands of young men and women across the country to move to New York to be apart of it.

And then eventually, the scandals and criminal thievery caught up to them, and now its a pretty tame version of what it used to be.

But could you imagine if, say, Jordan Belfort used his ability to get the youth excited about their future for good? Imagine if that movement was put towards a useful innovation of some sort and the youth he inspired wrote history favorably.

All the way on the other side of the country, the next closest thing to it is Silicon Valley, of course. Almost counterculture to the slick business attire with the flip flops and khakis, San Jose has been a hot zone that the top talents and entrepreneurs have been flocking to for decades, so what’s next?

It seems like it would make sense to have a revival as trends are normally cyclical in nature as it is, so is it time for the modern ‘Wallstreeter’ to come back and put their bid in again?

The thought of it is exciting and that kind of rivalry (assuming ethically, but I know, hope and a prayer) would be incredible. Almost like the Athens Vs. Sparta tug-of-war where two completely opposing cultures battle it out for the same thing.

Enter the Major League of Sales. Just like the NBA, the NFL, and the MLB. A major league for the most competitive startup enthusiasts, coders, and entrepreneurs. Sales is a spectator sport and has been dragged through the mud to the point it's unrecognizable.

It used to be a profession that didn’t require a lifetime of schooling or big loans and as long as you applied yourself, you could change your whole life.

Venture capitalists fetishize the Silicon Valley brand and hand over blank checks for, well, pretty much anything. A modern ‘Wallstreeter’, (who doesn’t even necessarily have to be from New York, a lot of those guys & girls weren’t) would naturally flock to the big ticket items if there was a business boom and that would be the venture capitalists going big on Unicorns.

It could be incredible for getting those inventors the voice they need to have their products get seen, perhaps even life-changing products, and would create many new jobs.

With Small Business being consolidated and feasted on by the ‘Big Dogs’, acquiring them for pennies on the dollar, is there a better time than now to get some serious horsepower rounded up and having a friendly (yet heated) competition that gets economy booming again?

Gen Z needs meaning in their life, according to them. Here you go, let’s repair the country and get the excitement going again. That early 2000’s feel.

And Jordan Belfort, this is your chance for redemption too. You can invest in the youth and teach them to use their powers for good.

I’ve issued the challenge to all three of them, so we shall see what happens.

The 20’s: still early enough to write history