Intelligent 15yo business man

[CEO]

The one question I still have

I’ve now contacted 70 consulting partners and received one reply.

So I’m asking here instead.

If I asked you right now who your most important professional relationship is that you haven’t spoken to in over a month — would you know the answer immediately?

If you’re a consulting partner, an M&A advisor, or anyone who manages a large professional network — I’d genuinely like to hear your answer. Reply here or email me directly at tjong.willem@gmail.com.

I’m 15 and I’m trying to build the right thing. Every honest answer helps.

I emailed 70 consulting partners. Nobody replied. Here's what that taught me.

Three weeks ago I started cold emailing senior partners at boutique consulting firms.

substack.com

— Willem

I sent him a free help and invitation if he's interested to join and wants to learn new things.

If someone can share more ideas write it here I will forward it to him.

Peace.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

At 15 you should go to school, hang out with girls and play outdoors. Live the real life of a teenager. Not reach out to "consulting partners" and "M&A advisors" 🙄
Too much social media for this kid. Where are his parents?

 

[CEO]

At 15 you should go to school, hang out with girls and play outdoors. Live the real life of a teenager. Not reach out to "consulting partners" and "M&A advisors" 🙄
Too much social media for this kid. Where are his parents?

Right but he will be a great business man in the future.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Right but he will be a great business man in the future.

How you know? Right now he's just filling his mouth with words he doesn't understand. Not a good start.

 

[CEO]

How you know? Right now he's just filling his mouth with words he doesn't understand. Not a good start.

I started playing with tech when I was 13. Maybe I can feel him.

Why he is doing that, maybe his parents are entrepreneurs or maybe for financial reasons, or he is influenced by X Twitter build in public this is the current trend etc.. I saw an example in shark tank Australia.

For sure he is going to fail and learn but he will succeed in his journey.

I wish he will follow good passion.

 

[Paratore]

I could think of worse things for a 15 year old to be up to.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

I could think of worse things for a 15 year old to be up to.

Sure, there are worse things a 15 year old could be doing than sending awkward emails to consultants. That is true. There are also far better things than trying to cosplay as a 38 year old LinkedIn zombie before you even know how the real world works.

Ambition is good. Premature corporatization is not. At 15, the priority should be building a brain, a body, social skills, judgment, and some culture. Otherwise you end up fluent in big words and empty underneath, which sadly is already enough for 80% of the consulting industry.

We should mock the environment that makes a teenager think “networking with M&A advisors” is a normal developmental milestone. Let him build things, read serious books, learn to speak properly, make mistakes, get rejected, and maybe even have a life. That will help him more than collecting one polite reply from 70 human autoresponders.