(WIP) Mentors & People I Chase After

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May 18, 2024 10:27 PM
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I promise to reflect and write my learnings from all my mentors - living and dead.

  1. Kai Elmer Sotto - challenged me to dream a better dream - to believe that a 17 year old kid in the Philippines could become a technology entrepreneur: “If Dado Banatao, a son of a farmer from the Philippines can do it, what’s your fucking excuse?!”
  2. Dado Banatao - his story from a son of a farmer in a remote province (Cagayan De Oro) n the Philippines to demanded me to dream. He sold 3 companies for hundreds and millions of dollars - powering the personal computer revolution.
  3. Paul Rivera - the first YC startup in the Philippines. I begged to work for him. I did any shit work so I could absorb lessons and mental models from one of the all time greats.
  4. Joan Magno - I learned the craft from her. She gave me the opportunity to break into product & entrepreneurship.
  5. Nassim Taleb - I opened up intellectually because of Taleb, he gave words to my intuitive thinking and decision making. I would not have clear thinking without him.
  6. Charlie Munger - G.O.A.T.
  7. Napoleon - He taught me the organizational speed & that leadership is formlessness.
  8. Marcus Aurelius - He taught me that my mind is my fortress.
  9. Justin Hart - He taught me how to analyze large swats of data in order to make meaningful decisions
  10. Andrew Dowd - He’s always winning the day to it’s fullest. I learned radical kindness and candor as a product leader from him.
  11. Moritz Gastl - He taught me how to lead in the workplace through strong radical candor and superhuman relationship building.
  12. Konrad Chua - He taught me how real world of business to business transactions work.
  13. Dandan Ng - He taught me how to rally others towards the good. He is my model of a king.
  14. David Ongchoco - he taught me to humble myself to learn from the greats
  15. David Gozali - he taught me to silence with love.
  16. Donald Felbaum - he taught me self reliance and independence
  17. Casper Chan - he gave me time to grow. He was always ahead. He had patience to wait for me to catch up. He’s been my partner in crime (product work) since 2017.
  18. Luis Gan - he taught me to reinvent myself always.
  19. Niko Tiutan & Alex - my creative partner and now creative friends.
  20. Adrian Yu - he’s proven the haters wrong - a man of action and fucking results.
  21. Sigmund Ty - a silent and quiet strength. His energy is
  22. Kyle Kua - he is light. pure fucking light. I ask myself what Kyle Kua would do when faced with dark emotions.
  23. King & Jeff - always pushing forward no matter the odds.
  24. TJ Palanca - I learned that product of data teams are decisions. I saw how he operated, learned his mental models at work and stole them for Expedock.