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>attention leads to money.

I think it's blatantly wrong and not even worth engaging with someone who presents that as an axiom, if you or she wants to actually argue for why that is true (and in the process explain all the people for whom it hasn't been true) then go ahead.

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There's a bunch of gurus that have done this and have been tremendously successful. To name a few: Gary Vaynerchuk, Grant Cardone, Tai Lopez, James Altucher. I'm sure there are cases that haven't been as successful, but show me one business that doesn't have failures? The point she was making was with the internet you can become a successful personality because with great content you can build up an audience without a middle man.

What? There's a bunch of rich professional athletes too but you'd be laughed off the internet if you published an article saying that the answer to poor career prospects for millenials was to start playing football. If 'it might work for a couple people' was the point she was making she did a very poor job of it.

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