Here in my garage with my Lamborghini. I don't know if you guys know who Tai
Lopez is. But he's a huge social media marketer and I've always wondered how
did he get rich? Now, I did a bit of research I did a bit of deep diving. And
in this video, I'm going to actually expose how Tai Lopez got rich. And I have a
timeline of exactly the key points in his story. You won't find this anywhere
on the Internet. Stay tuned and I'll outline everything
right here.
Cool. So, Tai Lopez has burst on to the online education scene. He's one of the
biggest influencers around right now in terms of teaching people how to make
money. Some people call him a scam, some people call him a con artist.
I've shook his hand once. But I don't really know too much about his story. So,
I took it upon myself to do some research and figure out what's true
about this guy what's not so I could figure out the ins and outs of this
situation. So, what I found out is Tai Lopez is 41 years old. He was born in
1978. Somewhere I think on the the East Coast area. Now, Tai Lopez graduated
college in year 2000. And what he ended up doing was he actually went on to
become a financial advisor. Now, I think he does claim in some videos he didn't
graduate college. Friends of his say he did graduate college. I'm going to go with
the friends of his on this one. And also the fact is he was a financial advisor
which requires you to get your CFP license you have to have graduated
college. So, we're just going to say, "He graduated college." But he became a
financial advisor then. So, Tai was a financial advisor for a number of years.
He actually worked in corporate America for GE Capital for about 7 or 8
years until he started catching the bug. Now, I caught the bug. And the bug is
wanting to start an internet business. The bug is wanting to leave behind
this corporate world which is inhumane and it just help
this lead a life of being brainwashed slaves. I totally understand we're Tai is
coming from on this one. Nobody wants to work a corporate job for the rest of
your life. You aren't going to make big money, you
aren't going to be satisfied. You aren't going to have control over your time or
your freedom. So, in 2007 he started creating internet business. So, Tai Lopez
actually did affiliate marketing. So, he was doing dating sites. He was doing
what's called white labeled dating sites. And that means you are putting up a
dating site using somebody else's software essentially you are a dating
affiliate. You have your own domain and you can use your own logo but it is part
of a broader, bigger dating site network. Now, this is actually pretty good. This is
pretty smart of him to have started an internet business in 2007. That was
pretty early on for most people getting on to the Internet. You know, I started in
2012. You know, a lot of people will say, "I started an internet business early
before it was cool." He started an internet business back in 2007 and I
suspect and from what sources I could find, he did reasonably well. So, here we
see on the consumer affairs website. Elite Global Dating. It's based in
Beverly Hills California where Tai Lopez's base. And what you'll see is the
reviews aren't too positive based on 6 reviews. The average review is 1. And
the tagline of it is romance for the successful and attractive. So very much
in line with kind of like this ideal imagery that's celebrity that he
tries to create in in what he does. The charges for it is you know 149 pounds
probably about $200 to sign up for this site for 6 months. From what it see,
seems like they didn't allow people to cancel their subscription and they
didn't pay any refunds. This person is saying, "It is a total scam avoid at all
costs." Pretty interesting stuff but, you know, it sounds like he was pretty new to
business and wasn't able to do this. And keep in mind at this time in life, he is
29 years old. So, I'm actually assuming some people assume that he made his
money just by being big on the internet. I actually believe Tai Lopez made his
money when in between this period of when he became very big on the Internet.
Now, you'll see in 2015 he came out with his now infamous commercial "Here in my
garage." If you recall that commercial. "Here in my garage with my Lamborghini, I
don't care about material things though. I care about knowledge. And hey, if you
buy my course, I'll teach you how to have a wealthy mindset." There's something
along those lines so in 2015m he's 37 years old, And this is when he became
famous okay? In 2017, his trajectory continued and he hit 1 million YouTube
subs. And in 2019, it's today, he's you know, 1.3 million YouTube subs. And you
know, he's running his business. He has a very good business and he comes out with
a lot of marketing stuff and I know he's influencing a lot of people. Now, if you
want my opinion on everything, as I said before I believe Tai became rich between
2007 and 2015. A lot of people say that Tai Lopez is a total scam and what he's
teaching is false. His methods to success that he never actually had any success
until he released this commercial about him being in his garage with his rented
Lamborghini. You know, I understand how a lot of people want to believe that he
didn't just become wealthy. And I think a lot of people are actually stuck in
victim mindset. I believe a lot of people want to find reasons for why somebody
didn't just make their own wealth and they weren't a self-made wealthy person.
Especially somebody comes off as douchy as Tai Lopes. But the reality is
and what I'm pretty sure about is based on the volume of complaints about
his dating site, I'm assuming he had a lot of customers. And looks like you know,
people were paying 150 dollars every 6 months or 300 dollars a year. I'm
assuming this guy made a ton of cash running his dating sites. I'm
not sure if it made him a millionaire or a multi-millionaire. But I'm assuming it
afforded him a very good lifestyle in these years in his 30's. So, I believe
he became rich before he became famous. And essentially he became rich as
running dating websites as a white label dating affiliate. Is Tai Lopez a scam?
Maybe leaves to be the question to be asked. Well, obviously you know, people who
were subscribers to his dating web site think that it's kind of a scam. You know,
he wasn't offered, he wasn't honoring their refund policy, wasn't canceling
people's auto subscriptions. But that being said, I think most people are
referring, you know, I'm not going to comment on things that I don't know fully about.
All I know is there's a lot of complaints. But what I can't comment
about is you know, that he sells educational material about improving
your mindset to become successful, to become wealthy. And I believe he's got it
in it. He's got it. And he's figured it out in terms of a mindset perspective. So
I don't believe he's a scam when it comes to business advice. I believe he's
actually a pretty smart guy. He's a marketer just like the rest of us. And he
may have had a stint where he got a little bit too aggressive on marketing
which is obviously not good. But I'll leave everybody to decide their own
judgments. Somewhere in here, he claims to have been Amish. I have no idea about
that. But if you have any insights into this
or if this video was helpful for you in any ways or if you have like totally
opposite thoughts from me, let me know in the comments below. I'd love to see what
your thoughts are on this in the comments. I tried to dissect and research
everything as much as I could. But please, interaction in the comments. Let
me know your thoughts. Is Tai Lopez a scam or is Tai Lopez legit and helpful?
Let me know in the comments. Also if you're interested in seeing how I make
money online because I actually do affiliate marketing. That's what I do for
a living and I'm multi millionaire at this point as well. You can
subscribe to my channel and check out some of my other trainings. I do have
trainings on how to be an affiliate marketer and all that stuff. You can find
free courses and information on my YouTube channel. Looking forward to
seeing the interaction in the comments on this one. It's kind of a controversial
subject but excited to see it. Have a good one and maybe see in another video.