“How do you find all these billionaires and convince them to give you an interview?”
It’s probably the most common question people ask me about my work.
Most of the biggest guests on my channel came through personal introductions from people they trust.
The more successful and influential someone becomes, the more selective they tend to be about the people they meet. Trust becomes increasingly important.
That is why it is usually difficult to reach billionaires through cold outreach.
Knowing this, we built a unique element into The Backstage Circle: curated introductions.
When someone becomes a TBC member, one of the first things we do is build a detailed profile of them.
We learn about their short-term and long-term goals, communication style, expertise, network, and much more.
Based on this, we know who they should meet, why the introduction matters, and how to make it valuable for both sides.
This is perhaps one of the most powerful parts of our private membership.
In the real world, people pay serious money for introductions like these. Often, they simply cannot be bought at all.
At TBC, they are built into the membership.
Apply to join here: https://forms.gle/huwR6NQNz5A4XgC78
P.S. We are accepting founding members until our first trip to Phuket at the beginning of September.
It’s probably the most common question people ask me about my work.
Most of the biggest guests on my channel came through personal introductions from people they trust.
The more successful and influential someone becomes, the more selective they tend to be about the people they meet. Trust becomes increasingly important.
That is why it is usually difficult to reach billionaires through cold outreach.
Knowing this, we built a unique element into The Backstage Circle: curated introductions.
When someone becomes a TBC member, one of the first things we do is build a detailed profile of them.
We learn about their short-term and long-term goals, communication style, expertise, network, and much more.
Based on this, we know who they should meet, why the introduction matters, and how to make it valuable for both sides.
This is perhaps one of the most powerful parts of our private membership.
In the real world, people pay serious money for introductions like these. Often, they simply cannot be bought at all.
At TBC, they are built into the membership.
Apply to join here: https://forms.gle/huwR6NQNz5A4XgC78
P.S. We are accepting founding members until our first trip to Phuket at the beginning of September.
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You know how much I like Phuket and how often I go there.
This time, I went to decide whether I could actually see myself moving there.
I had a packed few days: speaking at a conference, checking out a real estate project where I might buy a new house, and finding out what everyday life in Phuket really looks like beyond the beaches.
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPOrYnMPfc
P.S. Let me know where you think it’s better to live: Singapore or Phuket?
This time, I went to decide whether I could actually see myself moving there.
I had a packed few days: speaking at a conference, checking out a real estate project where I might buy a new house, and finding out what everyday life in Phuket really looks like beyond the beaches.
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPOrYnMPfc
P.S. Let me know where you think it’s better to live: Singapore or Phuket?
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I’m often accused of loving Singapore too much.
Some Singaporeans are even unhappy that my content praising Singapore brings more foreigners to the country.
But I feel Singapore is still often misunderstood. Many foreigners still have this image of it as a “strict and boring place,” which I think is a very outdated view.
I genuinely feel that I want to explain Singapore to the outside world from the perspective of a foreigner who came here at some point, just like many others.
After eight years of living here, Singapore feels like home to me. I’m not a citizen, but every time I travel abroad, I’m always happy to come back.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to live here and contribute my small part to this country.
Happy birthday, beautiful Singapore! 🇸🇬
I wish you continued success and prosperity, despite whatever challenges come your way.
Some Singaporeans are even unhappy that my content praising Singapore brings more foreigners to the country.
But I feel Singapore is still often misunderstood. Many foreigners still have this image of it as a “strict and boring place,” which I think is a very outdated view.
I genuinely feel that I want to explain Singapore to the outside world from the perspective of a foreigner who came here at some point, just like many others.
After eight years of living here, Singapore feels like home to me. I’m not a citizen, but every time I travel abroad, I’m always happy to come back.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to live here and contribute my small part to this country.
Happy birthday, beautiful Singapore! 🇸🇬
I wish you continued success and prosperity, despite whatever challenges come your way.
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I have one passion that very few know about.
I love people who are obsessed with what they do.
Especially when they no longer need to do it because they’ve already earned enough money to retire.
When I interviewed Bill Heinecke, the billionaire founder of Minor International, the group behind Anantara, I was struck by his energy.
He is 77, yet he remains deeply engaged and genuinely excited about his businesses.
Those are exactly the people I am bringing together through The Backstage Circle: people who are deeply passionate about what they do and whose energy is contagious.
TBC is a private membership community for high-level business owners and investors across Asia.
We also organise private meetings with billionaires and some of the region’s most iconic founders.
For example, during our first group gathering in Phuket this September, we will visit the home of Mohan Murjani, the entrepreneur who backed and launched Tommy Hilfiger.
In a very private setting, we will have an open conversation with him about life and business.
To join us, the first step is completing the application:
https://forms.gle/huwR6NQNz5A4XgC78
If there is a fit, you’ll hear directly from me.
I love people who are obsessed with what they do.
Especially when they no longer need to do it because they’ve already earned enough money to retire.
When I interviewed Bill Heinecke, the billionaire founder of Minor International, the group behind Anantara, I was struck by his energy.
He is 77, yet he remains deeply engaged and genuinely excited about his businesses.
Those are exactly the people I am bringing together through The Backstage Circle: people who are deeply passionate about what they do and whose energy is contagious.
TBC is a private membership community for high-level business owners and investors across Asia.
We also organise private meetings with billionaires and some of the region’s most iconic founders.
For example, during our first group gathering in Phuket this September, we will visit the home of Mohan Murjani, the entrepreneur who backed and launched Tommy Hilfiger.
In a very private setting, we will have an open conversation with him about life and business.
To join us, the first step is completing the application:
https://forms.gle/huwR6NQNz5A4XgC78
If there is a fit, you’ll hear directly from me.
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Tonight, one of my most controversial videos will be posted on the YouTube channel. I’m slightly nervous... 😅
Maybe we should not have published this video at all...
Here are the types of comments I keep receiving from viewers under the video. I wasn’t sure about this video, and here we go!
Today’s guest is “Lord” Edward Davenport, whose net worth is estimated at $100M. He is a Brit who now lives in Thailand and owns around 60 properties in central London.
Years earlier, he turned a former embassy building into one of London’s wildest and most luxurious party mansions, where he hosted stars like Cher and the Rolling Stones. But… a life this extraordinary rarely comes without trouble. Edward went to prison after a multimillion-pound fraud case and later paid £10 million under a confiscation order.
Yet after his release, he kept living life on his own terms. I spent three days with Edward, and he told me how he made millions organizing parties, what really happened inside his legendary mansion, what almost three years in prison were like, and why he chose Thailand when he could live almost anywhere in the world.
If you still want to watch it, it's here for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWvdmPMakpI
Here are the types of comments I keep receiving from viewers under the video. I wasn’t sure about this video, and here we go!
Today’s guest is “Lord” Edward Davenport, whose net worth is estimated at $100M. He is a Brit who now lives in Thailand and owns around 60 properties in central London.
Years earlier, he turned a former embassy building into one of London’s wildest and most luxurious party mansions, where he hosted stars like Cher and the Rolling Stones. But… a life this extraordinary rarely comes without trouble. Edward went to prison after a multimillion-pound fraud case and later paid £10 million under a confiscation order.
Yet after his release, he kept living life on his own terms. I spent three days with Edward, and he told me how he made millions organizing parties, what really happened inside his legendary mansion, what almost three years in prison were like, and why he chose Thailand when he could live almost anywhere in the world.
If you still want to watch it, it's here for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWvdmPMakpI
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I’m now on a plane flying from Singapore to Monaco.
Long time no talk. My last update was at the end of August, so I wanted to share what’s been happening.
In Europe, we’re working on a pretty big project: a documentary about one of the biggest founders in iGaming. His company is valued at around $5 billion. We’re starting filming in Monaco, on his yacht, and after that we’re taking a private jet to Portugal to continue filming there. Pretty exciting project.
Apart from that, September has been a very busy month. We officially launched TBC, The Backstage Circle, our private membership. I came up with the idea last year, tested the interest at the beginning of 2026, and now we’re live.
We currently have 16 very high-level members building and running businesses across completely different industries, from international schools and pregnancy apps to garment manufacturing and AI. They’re between 35 and 63 years old, originally from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, France, Germany, US, Russia, the Netherlands, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, the UK, South Africa, Serbia, Hong Kong and Cambodia, but all of them are now based in Asia.
The beginning of September was pretty stressful. I got super sick 10 days before our first TBC gathering in Phuket. It felt like my first COVID, really bad. On the first day I literally couldn’t get out of bed: 39+ fever, extreme body pain and a terrible headache. Eventually I recovered before the event, although the cough stayed with me for the first two days of the trip. Anyway, we made it happen.
A big reason why is the team I’ve assembled. Rob is our Operations Lead. Before TBC, he had already been working with me for two years on the YouTube brand deals side and helped us grow our commercial collaborations vertical 10x. He’s from NYC, has a military background, and is probably one of the most solid executors I can imagine.
And Qi, who I’ve interviewed three times on my channel, is our Founding Programme & Facilitation Lead. She’s also one of the smartest people I know, and our TBC members basically said the same thing after meeting her, haha. Stanford graduate. You understand the level, yeah?
After the opening trip, I took an entire week off and did absolutely nothing. And I’m not ashamed of it, although it’s definitely not typical for me. I stayed in Thailand, rode a motorcycle, went to ice baths and saunas, ate a lot of Thai and Russian food, met friends, and that was basically it. God, I needed it. Now I feel fully recharged.
What else? YouTube is doing well, although the views are fluctuating because we experimented with some controversial topics, haha. But that’s part of the game.
One very exciting interview is coming soon, with a guy who was jailed in Singapore by mistake and has just been released from prison. It became huge news here, and even ministers were debating the case. Now a 2+ hour interview with him is coming to our channel next week.
Oh yeah, one last thing. I signed up for HYROX at the end of November in Singapore. Am I training for it? Well... technically not really. But I signed up, so now I have about two months to somehow get ready, and I already know I’m going to suffer haha
But it’s okay. Not the end of the world, right? Or maybe I’ll die during the event. Let’s see.
Okay, that was quite an update. Talk soon.
P.S. I just looked around the plane and had this weird thought. I’m 42 years old, I feel better than I did at 30, and I’m sitting on this huge, beautiful plane (speaking like Trump), flying business class from Asia to Europe to work on a fucking exciting YouTube project.
What? Is this actually my life?
I’m not saying this to be cocky. I’ve had so many downs and low points before, honestly much more than ups. So I’m just sharing what I’m feeling right now: genuine surprise and gratitude for where life has taken me.
Long time no talk. My last update was at the end of August, so I wanted to share what’s been happening.
In Europe, we’re working on a pretty big project: a documentary about one of the biggest founders in iGaming. His company is valued at around $5 billion. We’re starting filming in Monaco, on his yacht, and after that we’re taking a private jet to Portugal to continue filming there. Pretty exciting project.
Apart from that, September has been a very busy month. We officially launched TBC, The Backstage Circle, our private membership. I came up with the idea last year, tested the interest at the beginning of 2026, and now we’re live.
We currently have 16 very high-level members building and running businesses across completely different industries, from international schools and pregnancy apps to garment manufacturing and AI. They’re between 35 and 63 years old, originally from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, France, Germany, US, Russia, the Netherlands, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, the UK, South Africa, Serbia, Hong Kong and Cambodia, but all of them are now based in Asia.
The beginning of September was pretty stressful. I got super sick 10 days before our first TBC gathering in Phuket. It felt like my first COVID, really bad. On the first day I literally couldn’t get out of bed: 39+ fever, extreme body pain and a terrible headache. Eventually I recovered before the event, although the cough stayed with me for the first two days of the trip. Anyway, we made it happen.
A big reason why is the team I’ve assembled. Rob is our Operations Lead. Before TBC, he had already been working with me for two years on the YouTube brand deals side and helped us grow our commercial collaborations vertical 10x. He’s from NYC, has a military background, and is probably one of the most solid executors I can imagine.
And Qi, who I’ve interviewed three times on my channel, is our Founding Programme & Facilitation Lead. She’s also one of the smartest people I know, and our TBC members basically said the same thing after meeting her, haha. Stanford graduate. You understand the level, yeah?
After the opening trip, I took an entire week off and did absolutely nothing. And I’m not ashamed of it, although it’s definitely not typical for me. I stayed in Thailand, rode a motorcycle, went to ice baths and saunas, ate a lot of Thai and Russian food, met friends, and that was basically it. God, I needed it. Now I feel fully recharged.
What else? YouTube is doing well, although the views are fluctuating because we experimented with some controversial topics, haha. But that’s part of the game.
One very exciting interview is coming soon, with a guy who was jailed in Singapore by mistake and has just been released from prison. It became huge news here, and even ministers were debating the case. Now a 2+ hour interview with him is coming to our channel next week.
Oh yeah, one last thing. I signed up for HYROX at the end of November in Singapore. Am I training for it? Well... technically not really. But I signed up, so now I have about two months to somehow get ready, and I already know I’m going to suffer haha
But it’s okay. Not the end of the world, right? Or maybe I’ll die during the event. Let’s see.
Okay, that was quite an update. Talk soon.
P.S. I just looked around the plane and had this weird thought. I’m 42 years old, I feel better than I did at 30, and I’m sitting on this huge, beautiful plane (speaking like Trump), flying business class from Asia to Europe to work on a fucking exciting YouTube project.
What? Is this actually my life?
I’m not saying this to be cocky. I’ve had so many downs and low points before, honestly much more than ups. So I’m just sharing what I’m feeling right now: genuine surprise and gratitude for where life has taken me.
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Today I’m doing two things for the first time in my life: riding in a Bugatti and flying on a private jet.
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From a Tinder Date to a Singapore Prison
Here is one of the craziest stories on my YouTube channel.
Meet Lev Panfilov, a Russian who moved to Singapore from Saint Petersburg as a teenager, completed his National Service, and dreamed of representing Singapore in fencing at the Olympics. But one Tinder date changed everything…
In this video, Lev reveals what life is really like inside Singapore’s maximum-security prison, shares the shocking details of what happened on that Tinder date, and explains what it takes to rebuild your life after spending nearly three years behind bars.
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/F_znZ5RUD5M
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Here is one of the craziest stories on my YouTube channel.
Meet Lev Panfilov, a Russian who moved to Singapore from Saint Petersburg as a teenager, completed his National Service, and dreamed of representing Singapore in fencing at the Olympics. But one Tinder date changed everything…
In this video, Lev reveals what life is really like inside Singapore’s maximum-security prison, shares the shocking details of what happened on that Tinder date, and explains what it takes to rebuild your life after spending nearly three years behind bars.
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/F_znZ5RUD5M
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Millionaires Are Looking for Friends Too
In September, we launched a project we'd been working on since last year: The Backstage Circle (TBC), a private membership community for accomplished entrepreneurs and investors.
Our first gathering took place in Phuket. There were 18 of us in total, including my amazing team, Qi and Rob. We talked about life and business, had a lot of fun, and met a local billionaire.
The core value of TBC is its people. Every member is carefully selected: highly successful at what they do, open-minded, and, just as importantly, a genuinely good person (we even had a “no assholes” policy when screening candidates haha).
But something surprised me.
People at this level are incredibly focused on their businesses (which is one of the reasons they're so successful). Yet they're also looking for something else: deep, meaningful relationships, genuine friendships, and people they can truly trust.
After our Phuket gathering, I sat down to articulate the purpose of TBC. Here's what I came up with:
Our Purpose:
To help accomplished people make deliberate choices about their next chapter in life or business through trusted peers, real-world insights, and shared experiences.
Ultimately, it comes down to three main benefits for our members:
1. Better people around you
2. Better decisions, knowledge, and opportunities
3. People who know you well enough to challenge you over time
When I finished writing all this, I realized that we're building something truly powerful.
And I'm incredibly happy about it.
Towards the end of this year, we'll open applications for our second TBC cohort. You can already register your interest in joining.
https://forms.gle/LYxm8bKjZLbq816y9
In September, we launched a project we'd been working on since last year: The Backstage Circle (TBC), a private membership community for accomplished entrepreneurs and investors.
Our first gathering took place in Phuket. There were 18 of us in total, including my amazing team, Qi and Rob. We talked about life and business, had a lot of fun, and met a local billionaire.
The core value of TBC is its people. Every member is carefully selected: highly successful at what they do, open-minded, and, just as importantly, a genuinely good person (we even had a “no assholes” policy when screening candidates haha).
But something surprised me.
People at this level are incredibly focused on their businesses (which is one of the reasons they're so successful). Yet they're also looking for something else: deep, meaningful relationships, genuine friendships, and people they can truly trust.
After our Phuket gathering, I sat down to articulate the purpose of TBC. Here's what I came up with:
Our Purpose:
To help accomplished people make deliberate choices about their next chapter in life or business through trusted peers, real-world insights, and shared experiences.
Ultimately, it comes down to three main benefits for our members:
1. Better people around you
2. Better decisions, knowledge, and opportunities
3. People who know you well enough to challenge you over time
When I finished writing all this, I realized that we're building something truly powerful.
And I'm incredibly happy about it.
Towards the end of this year, we'll open applications for our second TBC cohort. You can already register your interest in joining.
https://forms.gle/LYxm8bKjZLbq816y9
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