The Ride Jeff Doesn't Know Changed Everything
Victor Draemont on the late-night Uber ride in Buckhead that became the most consequential hour of his mentoring life...
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The Night I Recognized the Grind
Victor Draemont on the Atlanta night Jeff drove him home, and what he saw in a stranger before he knew his name — a p...
Read itThe Night I Watched Jeff Count and Said Nothing
Victor Draemont sat across from Jeff counting forty-one dollars after six hours of Uber driving — and chose silence o...
Read itThe Night Jeff Handed Me Back the Money
Victor Draemont on the night Jeff refused his help — and what that refusal revealed about the man Jeff was quietly be...
Read itThe Morning Jeff Asked What I Do All Day
Jeff asked Victor what he actually does all day. The honest answer took longer than expected — and cost more than Vic...
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Victor Draemont on the Atlanta grind, what he sees in the people still in it, and why Jeff's Uber shift was the most ...
Read itThe Ride That Cost Me Nothing
Victor Draemont on the late-night Uber ride in Buckhead that introduced him to Jeff — and what a stranger's grind rem...
Read itAdvice I No Longer Give
Victor Draemont on why he stopped giving direct advice to the people he mentors — and what he does instead when someo...
Read itWhat the Grind Teaches That Capital Cannot
Victor Draemont on what years of difficult, unglamorous work deposit in a person — and why no amount of capital can r...
Read itThe Afternoon Jeff Stopped Apologizing
Victor Draemont on the afternoon Jeff quit hedging his hustle — and what that shift looked like from across a steakho...
Read itThe Young Man Who Reminded Me of Geneva
Victor Draemont on the Atlanta hustler who sat across from him and mirrored something he thought he'd long since left...
Read itThe Night a Rideshare Driver Made Me Laugh
I got into a stranger's car in Buckhead late on a weeknight and came out of it with a friend. It remains the best return I have ever gotten on a car ride.
Read articleWhat I Look For in Someone Still Grinding
People assume I am watching for ambition or intelligence. Both are common. The thing I watch for is neither, and it is rarer than either.
Read articleWhy I Never Hand Anyone Money First
The most useless thing I can give someone in the grind is the thing they think they want from me. Here is what I learned doing it the wrong way.
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- The Ride Jeff Doesn't Know Changed Everything
- The Night I Recognized the Grind
- The Night I Watched Jeff Count and Said Nothing
- The Night Jeff Handed Me Back the Money
- The Morning Jeff Asked What I Do All Day
- Hustlers Atlanta
- The Ride That Cost Me Nothing
- Advice I No Longer Give
- What the Grind Teaches That Capital Cannot
- The Afternoon Jeff Stopped Apologizing
- The Young Man Who Reminded Me of Geneva
- The Night a Rideshare Driver Made Me Laugh
- What I Look For in Someone Still Grinding
- Why I Never Hand Anyone Money First