Val Katayev
@ValKatayev
Immigrant. Started at $0. Bootstrapped to $100M+ in profits & exits. Funded $1.7B of credit. Serial entrepreneur in adtech, music, fintech, jewelry, SaaS, RE.
I've generated over $1 billion in sales using ONE strategy. Used it in every recession - 2000, 2009, and 2020. I've never shared it publicly before. This thread might make you a millionaire.
WSJ story “Done with tiptoeing around their kids' feelings, FAFO parents are back”. It’s about time.
The video is from 2016. @pmarca absolutely nails it way before Crypto and AI go mainstream. Unbelievable macro vision.
Marc Andreessen’s advice to college students interested in startups “If I’m 22 again, I think what I do is I go try to find the company in the Valley that’s growing the fastest, has a really good culture, and a really good foundation for training. An example of that would be an…
Imagine spending $100 BILLION building a modern city for 700,000 people but it doesn’t sell and sits as a ghost town with population of just 9,000. That’s Forest City, Malaysia just across a river to Singapore which holds some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
Around 2010, 3 of my companies were headquartered at an office building in Manhasset, NY. It was a fairly new building but every time it rained hard, there would be a leak in my office. An old man with a heavy eastern European accent would stop by, put a bucket, wipe around,…
She nailed it. Can’t be said enough times.
WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve... My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee…
New Milestone. 10th development project is locked and loaded! Building more luxury residences in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NYC.
SALE IMAGE: Val Katayev & Daniel Kaykov DATE: 7/7/2025 ADDRESS: 36 Frost Street MARKET: Brooklyn ASSET TYPE: Development Site BUYER: Poise Property Group - Val Katayev & Daniel Kaykov SELLER: Michael Weiss SALE PRICE: $7,500,000 BSF: 15,000 ~ PPBSF: $500 SF: 7,500 ~ PPS...
In Marbella, Spain and convinced this is where sanctioned countries hang and spend their cash.
Bitcoin going to $1 million. And eventually it replaces the dollar as the global baseline currency. All the mechanics are there for this to play out. And this is coming from someone who is not a crypto nut.
I hope NYC doesn’t elect the most racist candidate we’ve ever seen. And it’s not even close. I’m pretty confident people will wake up and re-elect @ericadamsfornyc.
31% of NYC is white. Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly expressed hostile views toward white people. In a city this diverse, leadership should bridge divides, not inflame them. Here’s a thread of his own words. 🧵