Hey, I’m
Sumit Chatterjee

My conscious life began in Standard 9th, when I started reading books. Just like all teenagers in my time, way back in 2007, I was fascinated by IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) and anything and everything related to it. My elder brother was prepping for it and it was a topic of great interest to my family and the entire community around.

During this time, Chetan Bhagat — an IITian and an author — became extremely famous among us, because of his books Five Points Someone and One Night at the Call Centre. I grabbed both the books and a Pandora’s box just opened in front of me.

And no, it wasn’t because of Chetan Bhagat’s book, but because of the fact that I started reading. I started with fiction but due to my immense curiosity, I quickly shifted to non-fiction. Due to this habit of reading, I started to explore worlds that were nowhere close to the world I was living in. I got a glimpse into so many different worlds, so many different worldviews — and so many of them were actually winning big time in their own worldview.

Every successful person I’ve studied seems to champion their own version of it. They fine-tune their approaches, like adjusting weights in a vast neural network, based on real-time feedback — all to amplify their wins and edge ever closer to mastery.

Since I was reading anything & everything I could get my hands on, I started picking up newspapers as well — and I got exhaustively interested in economics and finance. The Economic Times was a goldmine to me, and the financial crisis of 2008 started around that time.

When I started reading Economic Times, it was full of jargon. About 30 percent of the words did not make any sense to me — but right across that time, I started following Vivek Kaul, who was a blogger and author explaining all the financial jargon in plain language.

By 2011, I started to know in-depth about the global monetary system, the government deficits, the massive quantitative easing the US was running to save the economy from the 2008 financial crisis, the Centillion effect, fractional reserve banking and the holy grail of all of it — the fiat monetary system.

This was a massive eye-opener for me. Over the years, I read and consumed content on the global economy like crazy. The world of finance is wild — and it didn’t just open in front of me, it changed the way I looked at everything.

Got to know that governments were printing money big time, they were running massive deficits to fund businesses that were already too big to fail — and even when they failed, they were bailed out using taxpayers’ money. Almost all countries are on fractional reserve banking, which means new money is created into the economy whenever someone takes a loan.

All in all, the amount of money flowing into these massive businesses is so wild that a normal person doesn’t even stand a chance in the real world. All the major businesses had already moved to massive VC-funded games — and the government, Wall Street, and the central banks were all complicit in it.

The 2008 financial crisis and the US government’s ability to manipulate the money supply gave birth to Bitcoin, crypto, blockchain — and later Techno Feudalism BATMMAAN: Broadcom, Apple, Tesla, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia and Alphabet — and now AI and Physical AI, i.e. Robotics.

Since I knew all these things in-depth for the last decade, I finally got the courage to act on it in late 2019. I invested in Crypto (Bitcoin, Solana, Ripple & more), Mag 7 (BATMMAAN), AI Chips (Nvidia, AMD & more), Energy, Data Centres, Robotics, Quantum and a few other asymmetrical bets. All these got accelerated by Covid as well.

Since I am a big believer in honesty, transparency and integrity — here is the proof that I have been reading, writing and doing all of this since 2009, that’s 16 years ago.

I’m all in. The 12× isn’t a flex — it’s an acknowledgment that I can be of immense utility to the community. And I’m not stopping at 12×. My ventures and my personal brand are evidence of that commitment. I’m here to educate, help, and be of service to anyone who chooses to be part of this community.

That’s all about me as of now. Rest is going to be history for sure — but the only question is, whether you will be a part of it or not.