Shawn Sharma is living his best life. Smoking cigars and driving exotic cars and staying in penthouse suites in Vegas. Rocking red-bottomed shoes, toting designer bags filled with fat stacks of cash.
It’s no wonder he’s got millions of followers on Instagram.
But he had to sacrifice to get to where he’s at now. He spent a good five years just saving up money, studying, networking, waiting for the right opportunities to come along.
But what were they? How’d he make his money? Is he really that successful? Or just a baller on a budget?
Read on for my Shawn Sharma review.
“Honestly guys, a lot of this flashy stuff is stupid,” Shawn admits. “But if you want it? Honestly, I wanted it too.”
“But I had to sacrifice and save and I had to learn how to invest my money the smart way to make more money,” he continues.
“How I could scale my business and how I could actually make an impact with the little money I had?”
“And it eventually got to a point where my little money started becoming bigger money.”
“And now that bigger money was making me money and that’s how I paid for all this BS, guys.”
“So if you are trying to have a better life, it starts with investing [in yourself and in your business] and not just throwing it all away,” Shawn preaches.
I mean, decent advice, but a little light on specifics.
Shawn shows a crypto trading account with something like $1.3 million in it.
Other than that, after watching all of his YouTube videos and combing through his IG, best I can tell is homeboy faked it until he made it.
Sure, he mentions he’s an expert in credit and arbitrage, but he never speaks on it.
- So like, does he come from money?
- Did he use credit to fund all this lavish living, knowing he’d make it back as his following grew?
- Can he possibly be making anywhere near the $1 million per week he claims?
Unfortunately, we’ll never know.
Shawn’s too busy posing by private jets and posting platitudes.
For example, he talks about the second mover advantage. Where one person starts a business, it’s doing well, and then the second person can come in, model what’s working for them, and take a piece of the pie, right?
So just look for tried and true strategies in mass markets and start replicating.
Whether it’s in real estate, ecom, social media marketing, forex, credit repair, anything with a high high ceiling.
Again, okay advice, but you’ve heard it before and it’s way too generic to take and do anything with.
Another tip he gives is, “Guys, you can’t go very far alone. You have to scale people. You have to focus on the human element.”
“And you have to build systems, guys.”
“So in the short term, right, it’s better to run alone – you know, do it fast. You’ll make a lot of money.”
“But long term, right, you’re not gonna be able to go as far.”
“Apple: trillion dollar market cap. But they have literally millions of employees, right?”
“If you wanna be a big organization, if you wanna move lots of money, if you wanna make lots of transactions, if you wanna make a lot of profit, at the end of the day guys, you have to focus on scaling the human element in your company,” Shawn says.
Or how ’bout this gem: “What I like to say is, focus on revenue-producing activity,” Shawn shares in a different IG video.
“What I do in my business is marketing and sales, right?”
“But I can’t do those things if I have to worry about fulfillment, about customer service, if I have to worry about all the nitty gritty things on the back end.”
“Once you’ve put people and systems in place and you’re free to spend your time on only revenue-producing activities, you’ll have no problem hitting those six figure months, seven figure months, then seven figure weeks and beyond.”
Shawn. Bro. I dare you to say something that’s (a) helpful and (b) practical.
Here’s the bottom line: Shawn Sharma did nothing to convince me he’s worth anywhere near what he says he is.
And it’s really hard for me to believe he’s made any significant amount of money outside of monetizing his Instagram following.
His content is inspirational but it has zero utility.
Plus it’s contradictory. He says material things don’t matter, but that’s basically his entire brand. He says find one thing and stick to it, avoid shiny objects, then talks about credit repair, arbitrage, Walmart automation, stocks, crypto, travel hacking, and more.
And then the way he tosses around numbers, as if any idiot can make seven figures a week. Not per year, not per month, but per week.
I’d rather have the anesthesia wear off mid surgery than give this guy any money.