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SRB Holdings

SRB Holdings is a personal holding company currently comprised of ten cash flowing business assets.

Current portfolio holdings include:

• Assembly
• Alto Studios
• Paperboy Studios
• SBloom Advisory

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SRB Ventures

SRB Ventures is an investment firm committed to investing in and accelerating the most compelling startups in the world. Fund I is a $10 million stage and sector-agnostic vehicle writing $100-250K checks into high-growth technology companies around the world.

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Penguin Random House

Forthcoming non-fiction tentatively titled The 5 Types of Wealth—redefining wealth in a more comprehensive way and providing a framework and tactical guide for assessing your priorities and building a fulfilling, wealthy life.

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The Curiosity Chronicle

The Curiosity Chronicle is a 2x weekly newsletter where I provide actionable ideas to help build a high-performing, healthy, wealthy life to a global community of 500,000+.

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Altamont Capital Partners

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Brixton

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INTERMIX

Fox Racing

Exploring my curiosity and sharing what I learn along the way.

Sahil Bloom is an inspirational writer and content creator, captivating millions of people every week through his social insights and bi-weekly newsletter, The Curiosity Chronicle.

His forthcoming debut non-fiction book (tentatively titled The 5 Types of Wealth) is set to revolutionize readers' lives with its groundbreaking framework, helping them break free from the daily grind, discover true fulfillment, and build a life of infinite wealth. The book is a unique blend of strategies, tactics, and actionable insights, enabling readers to make real, positive changes and lead healthier, wealthier lives.

Sahil is also a successful entrepreneur and owner of SRB Holdings, a personal holding company currently comprised of ten cash-flowing businesses, and the Managing Partner of SRB Ventures, a $10 million venture investment firm committed to investing in and accelerating the most compelling startups in the world. Prior to launching SRB Ventures in January 2022, Sahil was an early-stage investor in 40+ startups across the technology landscape, including multiple unicorns.

His previous roles include Vice President and Advisor at Altamont Capital Partners, a generalist investment fund with over $3.5 billion in capital under management, focused on control investments in middle market companies. While at Altamont, Sahil served as a board member at several Altamont portfolio companies, including Fox Racing, Intermix, and Brixton.

Sahil graduated from Stanford University with an M.A. in Public Policy (2014) and a B.A. in Economics & Sociology (2013). While at Stanford, he was a four-year member on the Stanford Baseball Team (2009-2013), twice helping to guide the team to NCAA Super Regional appearances (top-16 finishes). Additionally, Sahil earned two PAC-12 All-Academic Team awards and twice received the Bruce R. Cameron Memorial Award, given annually to a student-athlete exhibiting excellence in athletics, academics, and leadership. Academically, Sahil was advised in his pursuits by former Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice.

Harsh Truth: Networking is dead.

Focus on building, not networking.

• Build communities
• Build genuine relationships
• Build skills that create value for others

When you focus on building, the rest will take care of itself.

Stop networking, start building.

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My rule for life: Don’t complain about anything.

If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, complaining is just a waste of energy.

Harsh Truth: Complaining never got anyone anywhere worth going.

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There is nothing in the world like a mother’s love.

My duty as a father and husband is to make sure that my son understands just how much his mother loves him.

If I can do that, I’ll always be proud.

Newsflash: You are capable of much more than you think.

You just need to think bigger.

We've all been there...

You have a big, ambitious goal you're driving towards, but you start to feel a creeping sense of doubt about whether you can achieve it. You worry about failing to achieve the goal, so you start thinking, speaking, and acting in ways that subtly cut into your odds of success.

You shrink yourself down to avoid a hard fall.

Self-Handicapping is a psychological protection strategy that people use to insulate their self-esteem from the damage of potential failure.

When someone engages in Self-Handicapping, they engage in actions or behaviors that actually undermine their chance at success in an effort to provide themselves with a built-in excuse if failure occurs.

They play small for fear of the failure from playing big.

Self-Handicapping is an emotional and psychological shield we all put up—one that is particularly prevalent among highly ambitious people who set high bars for success.

Fight back: Aim higher. Think bigger.

Spend time around ambitious big thinkers who encourage you to do the same. People who support your vision and never tell you to be realistic.

You are capable of so much more than you can possibly know.

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This Microsoft study will blow your mind...

In 2021, Microsoft's Human Factors Lab studied 14 participants across two days of video meetings.

• Day 1: 4 back-to-back meetings.
• Day 2: 4 meetings with breaks in between.

Participants wore EEG caps to monitor electrical activity in their brains.

The results were incredible...

The two key takeaways:

1. Back-to-Back Meetings = Stress

Back-to-back meetings created an accumulating buildup of stress in the brain.

Anticipation of transitions to the next meeting caused further spikes.

Short breaks in between meetings allowed the brain to reset and never experience the stress buildup.

2. Breaks Promote Performance

Back-to-back meetings resulted in negative levels of frontal alpha symmetry, a brain state connected to lower levels of engagement.

Short breaks in between meetings resulted in positive levels, meaning participants performed better.

The key study conclusion: Take more breaks!

Short breaks in between meetings are necessary:

• Eliminate stress buildup
• Improve performance
• Reduce impact of attention residue

I started implementing 25-minute meetings into my schedule (a built in 5-minute break) and immediately noticed a positive impact.

A short walk or some movement in that window provided a clear reset.

25-minute meetings also eliminate the “how about the weather” low value chit chat most meetings open with.

If you set the tone to dive in and stay focused, there are few things that take more than 25 minutes.

Try it, you won't regret it!

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Sahil Bloom is an inspirational writer and content creator, captivating millions of people every week through his social insights and bi-weekly newsletter, The Curiosity Chronicle.

His forthcoming debut non-fiction book is set to revolutionize readers' lives with its groundbreaking framework, helping them break free from the daily grind, discover true fulfillment, and build a life of infinite wealth. The book is a unique blend of strategies, tactics, and actionable insights, enabling readers to make real, positive changes and lead healthier, wealthier lives.

Sahil is also a successful entrepreneur and owner of SRB Holdings, a personal holding company currently comprised of ten cash-flowing businesses, and the Managing Partner of SRB Ventures, a $10 million venture investment firm committed to investing in and accelerating the most compelling startups in the world. Prior to launching SRB Ventures in January 2022, Sahil was an early-stage investor in 40+ startups across the technology landscape, including multiple unicorns.

His previous roles include Vice President and Advisor at Altamont Capital Partners, a generalist investment fund with over $3.5 billion in capital under management, focused on control investments in middle market companies. While at Altamont, Sahil served as a board member at several Altamont portfolio companies, including Fox Racing, Intermix, and Brixton.

Sahil graduated from Stanford University with an M.A. in Public Policy (2014) and a B.A. in Economics & Sociology (2013). While at Stanford, he was a four-year member on the Stanford Baseball Team (2009-2013), twice helping to guide the team to NCAA Super Regional appearances (top-16 finishes). Additionally, Sahil earned two PAC-12 All-Academic Team awards and twice received the Bruce R. Cameron Memorial Award, given annually to a student-athlete exhibiting excellence in athletics, academics, and leadership. Academically, Sahil was advised in his pursuits by former Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice.

PSA: You don’t “owe” anyone a place in your life.

We all have a few of those people in our lives:

They throw out the subtle digs.

They make the subtle comments.

They tell you to be realistic.

They laugh at your grand ambitions.

If someone isn’t supporting the future you are trying to build, you need to remove them from your headspace or energy.

Replace them with people who encourage you to think even bigger.

Your entire life will change.

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Important daily reminder.

There are two big mistakes in life:

1. Worrying about what other people think about you.

2. Believing that other people think about you in the first place.

Fight back.

Stop worrying about what others think.

Be yourself and live according to your values.

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This 1-minute phone hack changed my life.

Grayscale Mode:

We all need to fight back against the phone addiction that is destroying our attention and focus.

Grayscale Mode removes the colors to make your phone immediately less appealing and addicting.

If you have an iPhone, follow these steps:

• Settings
• Accessibility
• Display & Text Size
• Color Filters -> On
• Grayscale

If you want to be able to toggle it on and off easily, you can create a simple shortcut:

• Settings
• Accessibility
• Accessibility Shortcut
• Color Filters

If you triple-click the side button, you'll be able to toggle Grayscale on and off.

For non-iPhone users...

Grayscale Mode on Google Pixel:

• Settings
• Accessibility
• Color & Motion
• Color Correction
• Grayscale

Grayscale Mode on Samsung Galaxy:

• Settings
• Accessibility
• Visibility Enhancements
• Color Correction
• Grayscale

Since starting to use Grayscale Mode in January, I've seen my screen time drop and my focus rise.

A side benefit for parents: Your phone is immediately less interesting and addicting for your kids. I was shocked by how my son was naturally drawn to our screens from just a few months old. When I turn on Grayscale Mode, he loses interest.

Try it for a day. It's a massive life hack you won't regret.

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In the short run, it is much harder to be exceptional than it is to be reliable.

In the long run, being consistently reliable makes you exceptional.

Early in your career, I think the most important thing is that you build a reputation for:

1. Reliability
2. Figuring it out

Both are entirely free and don’t require any talent or luck.

Just show up, do the work, and get the job done.

People will literally fight over you.

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One of the most significant lies we tell ourselves:

"When I get [X], then I'll be happy."

It's easy to convince yourself that your happiness is contingent upon some external milestone:

• Money
• Promotion
• Fancy stuff
• Recognitions

But these "when, then" traps are a dangerous mirage:

You climb to the top of that mountain, only to see the happiness you thought you'd find melt away and reappear in the distance.

If you convince yourself that your satisfaction is contingent upon the next achievement or milestone, you'll never find it.

Real satisfaction and happiness is an inside job:

Find it on the journey—or you won't find it at all.

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Social media is a drug.

It is designed to make you wish you were somewhere else, doing something else, with someone else.

Don’t fall into the comparison trap.

Embrace the positive, valuable people and ideas you can follow.

Reject anything that makes you feel you’re not enough.

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How to make powerful progress in any arena.

Use my ABC Goal System:

For any arena, you establish three levels of daily goals:
• A Goal: Most ambitious, perfect case.
• B Goal: Middle ground, base case.
• C Goal: Minimum viable level, downside case.

The idea is simple, yet profound:

If you start to struggle, people who only have an A Goal (most people!) are likely to fall completely off track. Once their only goal is out of sight, they have nothing to drive them forward.

If you have a B Goal and a C Goal, you always have something to keep you pushing—to keep you in the game.

On days when you feel great, you hit your A Goal.

On days when you feel ok (most days!), you hit your B Goal.

On days when you feel bad, you hit your C Goal.

The ABC Goal System removes any intimidation or guilt: As long as you hit your C Goal, you're making forward progress. Remember: Anything above 0 compounds!

The system prevents optimal (A Goal) from getting in the way of beneficial (C Goal) and gives you the flexibility to make progress while allowing the inevitable vagaries of life to enter.

Here are a few examples of how this might look in your life...

Fitness:
• A Goal: Full lift and cardio (approximately 90 minutes).
• B Goal: Full lift or cardio (approximately 60 minutes).
• C Goal: 30 minutes of movement (walk, dance, etc.).

Relationships:
• A Goal: Dinner date and long walk together.
• B Goal: Short walk together.
• C Goal: One call or FaceTime chat.

Work:
• A Goal: Two long focus work blocks.
• B Goal: One long focus work block.
• C Goal: One short focus work sprint.

When you're traveling (or when life gets chaotic), it can be hard to hit your A (or even B) goals in these areas. With the ABC Goal System, you can focus on hitting your C goal to stay on track and keep moving forward.

To get started with your ABC Goal System, choose an area of life where you find yourself struggling with motivation or discipline.

Establish your ABC Goals. Write them down so you can track which goal you hit on a daily basis.

My ABC Goal System is designed to help you stay the course and avoid the stagnation that comes from allowing optimal to get in the way of beneficial.
Give it a shot and let me know what you think.

Remember: Small things become big things. Anything above zero compounds.

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A mathematician shockingly rejected the $1 million prize.

The reason why (and what you can learn from it):

Grigori Perelman is a mathematician considered to be one of the smartest humans alive.

He became known around the global mathematics community for his work that made previously impossible proofs appear obvious in hindsight.

In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for his contributions to the field.

But in a crazy twist, Perelman declined to accept it.

"[The prize] was completely irrelevant for me. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed."

Later that year, he formally walked away from professional mathematics and moved to a small town outside Saint Petersburg, Russia, to live with and look after his elderly mother.

In 2010, Perelman was awarded the Millennium Prize, which came with a $1 million cash prize.

But yet again, he declined to accept it.

In a world so focused on external achievement and recognition, Grigori Perelman was a unicorn:

An individual who had completely eliminated the need for external validation. He was fulfilled by the process—by the joy of working on the complex problems—not by the reward at the end of that journey.

While none of us should reasonably aspire to this level, there is a powerful lesson in his story:

A life devoid of the need for external validation is a life lived on your terms. It is a life of true freedom.

Conflating money and freedom is the mistake that people seem to make—they incorrectly assume that more money equals more freedom, and wind up disappointed when it does not.

Money is a tool that can be used to gain freedom, but more often, it becomes a tool that keeps us running for more.

Once you’ve achieved a certain level of financial success, everything becomes about a quest for freedom. The ability to do what you want, with who you want, when you want is what everyone prizes above all else.

Freedom is the real goal.

Grigori Perelman realized that. It's time we all did as well.

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Freedom is the real goal.

Once you’ve achieved a certain level of financial success, everything becomes about a quest for freedom.

Being able to do what you want, when you want, with who you want is what everyone prizes above all else, but few have it.

Freedom is rare, but incredibly apparent when you feel it.

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We all need to find our 15th century Florence...

Here's what I mean (and how it will change your life):

In the 15th century, the Medici family began funding the arts, which led to many of the great artists and thinkers of the generation converging on Florence at a single point in time.

The concentration of talent in one location led to an explosion of innovation that gave rise to the entire Renaissance movement.

Today, there are versions of 15th century Florence popping up all around the world, with a high density of interesting people leading to explosions of growth, ideas, and insights.

Spending time in them is essential if you want to accomplish great things.

As Paul Graham wrote, "Ambitious people are rare, so if everyone is mixed together randomly, as they tend to be early in people's lives, then the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers. When you take people like this and put them together with other ambitious people, they bloom like dying plants given water. Probably most ambitious people are starved for the sort of encouragement they'd get from ambitious peers, whatever their age."

Some people experience 15th century Florence on their college campus during their youth, only to leave and never experience anything like it ever again.

Conversely, some make an effort to live in (or frequent) these high density locations and reap the long-term, compounded benefits they provide.

I always feel new energy after spending time with big thinkers in a single physical location.

My advice: Find your 15th century Florence and spend more time there.

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How to make new habits stick: The Two-Day Rule.

With whatever habit you’re trying to build, never allow yourself to skip more than one day in a row.

Creates forward progress—but allows for the vagaries of life to enter without derailing momentum.

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Connecting with people is a critical life skill.

4 principles to become a master conversationalist:

Principle 1: Create Doorknobs

I read an article by an improv performer who referred to "doorknobs" in conversations. Doorknobs are questions or statements that invite the other person to open them and walk through by telling a story.

Example: How did you decide on the wedding venue?

The question version (where did you get married?) will lead to a conversation stop (a location response). The doorknob will lead to a story.

Every story offers new opportunities for you, the listener, to attach to a point and further the discourse.

Doorknobs create stories—you should create doorknobs.

Principle 2: Be a Loud Listener

In a recent NYT opinion piece, David Brooks referred to the idea of loud listening.

Loud listening can take many forms:

• Sounds: Saying "yes" or "uh-huh" or "hmm" to signal listening and encourage energy from the speaker.

• Facial Expressions: Changing facial expressions to react to the story being told.

• Body Language: Forward lean posture towards the speaker signals engagement and positive energy. Never turn away or sideways.

We've all been in a conversation where the other person is uninterested in who we are or what we have to say. We know that feeling. Don't create it for others.

Principle 3: Repeat & Follow

Active listening leads directly into the "repeat and follow" method:

Repeating key points back to the speaker in your own words and following on with an additional insight, story, or doorknob. This is an opportunity to cement connection with the speaker and show engaged listening.

Principle 4: Make Situational Eye Contact

Eye contact is nuanced: Too little and you look shifty, too much and you look psychotic.

I like situational eye contact:

• Deep and connected while they speak.
• Organic while you speak.

It’s ok to gaze off while you think, but use eye contact to emphasize key points and moments in a story.

To get you started, here are 9 great "doorknobs" that I like to use in conversations:

1. What are you most excited about right now, personally or professionally?

2. What was your favorite (or least favorite) thing about your hometown?

3. What's the origin of your name? Why did your parents give you that name?

4. What was the most interesting thing you've read or learned recently?

5. If you had an entire day to yourself, how would you spend it?

6. What do you feel you've changed your mind on recently?

7. If you could have a dinner with 5 people from history, who are they and why?

8. What has been something you've purchased for under $100 that made a difference in your life?

9. What is the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you?

Focus on the four core principles and use these doorknobs t, you'll immediately improve your overall ability as a conversationalist.

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