Pearl - He Was Making $650K—Then They Cut Him Off! @ShivAiyar

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In this episode, I talk about my experience of being capped at $100,000 a year at the age of 24, and how I was able to go on to make $100 million a year as a 24 year old.

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00:00:00.000 and yeah i feel like when you have a really high performer it's kind of like expected that at some

00:00:05.620 point they're gonna go well i think the secret though because i have a lot of hype like now

00:00:10.440 it's funny because i learned from that mistake i have really smart people who work for me now

00:00:14.280 and what should what should they have done to keep you they should have they should have not

00:00:19.080 capped me at the money i'm gonna make they put a cap they're like you're making too much money so

00:00:23.340 it basically it was because when i was making 650k a year they're like okay that's too much

00:00:27.720 money for a 24 year old i'm like but i'm like but i'm but that was all commission based yeah it's

00:00:33.260 like but the more money i make the more you make so why would you care and so i think the problem

00:00:39.180 with a lot of people is they look at the physical dollar they're paying someone but if it's

00:00:43.080 commission only you should never cap that person i would love like if i like for me on my team i

00:00:47.760 hope my sales person makes 20 million a year because that means i'm making like 100 right

00:00:51.960 right so that was really stupid i think it was ego because he was kind of successful young but 0.84

00:00:58.760 now it was getting to the point where like i think i was trying the math right 0.98

Pearl - April 29, 2025

He Was Making $650K—Then They Cut Him Off! @ShivAiyar

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