Pearl - April 29, 2025
He Was Making $650K—Then They Cut Him Off! @ShivAiyar
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Summary
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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and yeah i feel like when you have a really high performer it's kind of like expected that at some
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point they're gonna go well i think the secret though because i have a lot of hype like now
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it's funny because i learned from that mistake i have really smart people who work for me now
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and what should what should they have done to keep you they should have they should have not
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capped me at the money i'm gonna make they put a cap they're like you're making too much money so
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it basically it was because when i was making 650k a year they're like okay that's too much
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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
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like but the more money i make the more you make so why would you care and so i think the problem
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with a lot of people is they look at the physical dollar they're paying someone but if it's
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commission only you should never cap that person i would love like if i like for me on my team i
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hope my sales person makes 20 million a year because that means i'm making like 100 right
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right so that was really stupid i think it was ego because he was kind of successful young but
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now it was getting to the point where like i think i was trying the math right
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