The amount of money you get.

Investing in professional development is not a cost.

Well their intention was to take these home equity loans and put that money to work, invest it in some way.

Malibu Equity and Investments. Roger Van Zant.

For example, if you want to better the cost of the toilets or the quality of the water

Did you know that 40 percent of the wealth created in Africa is not invested here in Africa?

Investment

Now, who are they accountable to?

Let me put that.

Malibu Equity and Investments.

So essentially, instead of Countrywide being responsible for my loan, my payments now go to these investors.

Is that something that you are still invested in, that you still believe in the notion of investment?

In the general election, it's the citizens who get to vote, if you're over 18, in some states if you have an ID.

(Laughter) Here's some advice from one of the largest investors in the United States.

He valued what we already had at 5 million dollars.

And then, what's the state of affairs in our city now?

They're valuing these assets at 1 million.

As investors flee

Investing.

I do lose a couple of these people because they are willing to walk a little bit further for a cupcake.

Here in this situation, I actually make money.

So you have tons of investors.

EBlT in this case would be the operating profit plus this investment income.

So I think we all agree that if I were to build a factory that this is let's say I'll do everything in green as investment.

So then they funneled even more money.

There's only 25,000 in this little pile of money that I'm collecting, but people think that there should be 35,000.

He's only running at 25 utilization.

Mmhm. It's a real estate investment.

And this is the important thing.

This is the total actual value.

I'm talking about the situation where you had Pete, and Pete said

And I'll show you why that matters in a second.

Big investors.

Investment in what?

So he was able to withdraw his money, so when he goes back to the country club, he gives this guy and that guy more conviction that this is all on the up and up.

I hope you invested if you can't invest in your own thing, why should I?

I'm legitimate.

So let me delete this.

We are now faced with these questions to answer.

And of course the pre money valuation is just you just take the pre money valuation plus the amount of cash they're giving us.

Now we have 3,000 apples being produced, because these were really good investments.

Or are you trying to get an intuition for helping to become a better investor?

But what it does is, it limits the interactions.

So let's say I have investor A.

That they're reducing volatility.