June 15,2025

Happy Sunday, everyone! 🌞
Good morning! Whether you’re easing into the day in PJs or already crushing your to-do list (power move), I hope today feels like a deep breath and a fresh start.

Here’s a fun thought: What if building wealth wasn’t one big leap—but a series of steady steps anyone could follow?

That’s what we’re diving into today with Wealth Stacking—a 5-step framework that’s less about luck and more about smart moves that build on each other, like financial LEGO bricks 🧱💸. Stack them right, and before you know it, you’ve built something solid, lasting, and growing on its own.

Let’s break it down and set the stage for a future that builds itself while you live your life.

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
— Drew Houston, Co-founder of Dropbox

A business is only as scalable as the systems behind it.
Before you grow, ask: am I building a machine, or just running on motivation?

— Ryan Rincon, CEO and Founder at The Wealth Wagon Inc.

Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria, restoring a critical conduit for both cargo and passenger traffic. The crossing had been closed for months amid heightened security concerns, but after extensive reviews and bilateral coordination, movement has now resumed.

Japanese and U.S. negotiators met in Washington to explore the framework for a new bilateral trade agreement, potentially timed for announcement around the upcoming G7 summit. Although no terms were released, both governments confirmed that progress was made on key economic coordination fronts.

If finalized, the deal could reduce costs and improve market access for companies in two of the world’s largest economies. It also serves as a potential blueprint for post-pandemic trade resilience, helping multinational firms navigate a fragmented global trade landscape.

Meta has made a blockbuster $14.8 billion investment in Scale AI, acquiring a 49% stake and bringing Scale’s CEO Alexandr Wang into Meta’s leadership team to spearhead “superintelligence” projects. The move instantly triggered a competitive backlash, with Google—Scale’s largest client—exiting the partnership.

This is a watershed moment in AI infrastructure strategy, reflecting how the biggest tech firms are seeking control over the entire model development stack—from data to deployment.

Goldman Sachs has revised its forecast for a U.S. recession in the next 12 months to 30%, down from 35%, citing improved consumer price trends and diminished U.S.–China trade frictions. The adjustment comes on the heels of encouraging CPI data and a new tone of stability in tariff discussions.

In a significant development, OpenAI has partnered with Google Cloud to supplement its compute infrastructure, expanding beyond its foundational relationship with Microsoft Azure. The deal highlights intensifying demand for high-performance GPUs and flexible infrastructure to support large AI model training and deployment.

This signals that the AI arms race is now an infrastructure race. For cloud providers, it’s a matter of who can scale faster and more efficiently. For developers and enterprises, expect AI inference costs to remain high as demand outpaces supply.

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Most people think of wealth as a single event:
A big IPO. A huge salary. A lucky investment.

But that’s not how it works for most successful people.

Real wealth is built by stacking layers of financial progress, one on top of the other — until the stack becomes unstoppable.

This is a principle I call Wealth Stacking — and once you understand it, you can apply it whether you’re making $4K/month or managing a $4M portfolio.

Let’s break down the 5 stages, how to move through them, and what to focus on at each level.

A lot of people are stuck in “chase mode”: chasing money, chasing trends, chasing the next thing.

But wealth builders play a longer, more structured game.

They don’t jump from step 1 to step 5.
They build step 1 into step 2… then stack step 3 on top of that… and so on.

Wealth Stacking is sequential.
Each stage feeds the next.

Goal: Be in control of how money comes in.

This doesn’t mean you have to be rich yet. It just means you’ve figured out how to consistently generate income — ideally on your own terms.

Options:

🔑 Key mindset: Stop thinking “I need a job.” Start thinking “I need to control how money flows to me.”

Goal: Create your first real wealth gap (earn more than you spend).

You don’t need to be frugal forever. But you do need to manage lifestyle creep.

Focus areas:

🔑 Key mindset: Buy freedom, not status.

Goal: Make your money work.

Once you have a surplus, you need to start deploying capital — instead of letting it sit in cash.

Smart plays:

🔑 Key mindset: Dollars are employees. Send them to work.

Goal: Multiply output without multiplying time.

This is where your wealth-building speed accelerates. You start using leverage — tools, systems, or people — to scale income and impact.

Leverage types:

🔑 Key mindset: Wealthy people don’t trade hours. They trade systems.

Goal: Own things that grow in value and cash flow long term.

At this stage, you’re thinking about wealth preservation, not just generation.
You want durable, appreciating, income-producing assets.

These could be:

🔑 Key mindset: Own > rent. Equity > salary. Assets > effort.

For high-level employees:
→ Use salary + bonuses to invest. Turn your expertise into side assets. Negotiate for equity or profit share.

For business owners:
→ Reinvest profits into scalable systems. Pull excess cash into long-term wealth vehicles. Automate your company as much as possible.

For investors:
→ Focus less on speculation, more on cash-flowing, tax-efficient vehicles. Use earned income to buy equity and yield.

For beginners:
→ Focus on income + skills first. Stack every dollar earned into growth, not consumption. Build digital proof of work.

Most people think wealth is an event.
It’s not. It’s a stack — one level at a time

You don’t have to do everything at once.
You just have to move from one level to the next — deliberately.

This month, pick one:

Because the moment you start stacking?
The compounding begins.

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What did the broke entrepreneur name his startup?
“IOU Technologies.”

You can build me in minutes or destroy me in seconds.
I don’t cost money, but I’m worth everything in business.
I can’t be bought, but I can be lost.
What am I?

Google rents goats to mow its lawns.
Yep, instead of gas-guzzling mowers, Google once hired a herd of 200 goats to eat the grass around its HQ.
Eco-friendly, and… kinda adorable.

Would you rather…

(Security vs. entrepreneurial freedom — what’s your future worth?)

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