THE NEW LEVEL OF WEALTH

As a young boy in primary school, I had many dreams, goals and aspirations, part of which was to become the richest man in the world. I dreamt of becoming the richest man in the world but I didn’t know the path I would take to achieve this or get to that level of wealth, as a matter of fact I didn’t have any idea or knowledge of the word ‘entrepreneur’ talk more of taking entrepreneurship as a career path. I also dreamt of becoming a soldier (I’m guessing someone is saying “this guy is confused”, a guy is allowed to dream *smile*).

When I grew a little older (by this time I was in secondary school) and realized that the richest man in the world (Bill Gates) was worth billions of dollars I began to dream again and made up my mind that I would be the first trillionaire in history, mind you, I’m measuring these wealth in dollars. This mind-set made me so allergic to the idea of ever being poor.

I started studying about wealthy guys, guys like Mansa Musa 1 of Mali who is regarded as the richest man of all time with a net worth of about 400 billion dollars, John D Rockefeller, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim, I even started to estimate how wealthy Solomon I the Bible was.

I felt if I had attained the level of a trillionaire (in dollars), I had attained the highest level of wealth. How wrong was I! I couldn’t be any wronger! (Excuse my French)

As I grew older, I started to learn about entrepreneurship till it became my passion. I started many entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses (mind you entrepreneurship and business have different meanings although commonly used interchangeably, but they are closely related), some I failed at, others I succeeded at, most times I just blew my profits, but I learnt a lot and I’m the better for it. Today, I have many stories to tell in my business/entrepreneurial journey.

Along the line, I stumbled on my biggest discovery yet; I found a new level of wealth in which I will reveal to you. This level of wealth is called “The Gillionaire’s” level. Meaning we have, the millionaire, the billionaire, the trillionaire…and the gillionaire.

Unlike the other levels of wealth earlier mentioned where your wealth is determined by how much you have, the gillionaire level is determined by how much you don’t have, that is, how much you give out. It doesn’t necessarily have to be cash; it is just how much of yourself you give out to the society, how much the society feels your impact or how much you do to improve your society. Based on the Holy Bible in Acts 20:35 where it is said that “it is more blessed to give than to receive”, the ideology behind the word “gillionaire” is captured in the first letter “G”. The letter “G” in gillionaire connotes many things as you will see.

A gillionaire is an entrepreneur who is God fearing, a giver, a goal chaser, an agent of real and positive change, a gillionaire impacts his society for good.

It is often said that givers never lack, a gillionaire carries the “givers never lack” mind-set which makes them exert themselves more to the betterment of the society. A gillionaire is active and has the strength and vigour of a youth.

In its entirety, a gillionaire is an entrepreneur with a difference, an entrepreneur who is anointed for business and uses his/her influence in the market place to touch lives and help make the world a meaningful place to live. Once you’ve reached this level of wealth, you earn joy, true satisfaction from the insatiable wants of man and you become the wealthiest man in the world. 

    ARE YOU A GILLIONAIRE?

Gidi Steel is a company that wants to help build a generation of gillionaires by helping start-ups and young entrepreneurs in Nigeria grow. As part of our mission to help and support start-up businesses and young entrepreneurs in Nigeria, we’ll be introducing an online Gillionaires competition and give away from next month (1st June). You have the opportunity to win cash prize from this competition and gain a lot. Don’t miss out of this opportunity.

This competition will be specifically for IG, so check out our IG page @gidisteel for details of the competition.