Wall Street Folly

Did you think he’d ever really go away?: It’s official.The now infamous video resume producer ("Impossible is Nothing") and self-proclaimed expert in everything, Aleksey Vayner, is back.  He’s got a new website.   He’s got a blog (although so far there are only test entries.)  You can hire
him to speak to you (although that part of his website is "coming
soon").  And his story (and obviously, his legend) just keeps getting bigger.  At least that’s what he wants us to believe. He’s pushing his new book that you can preorder on Amazon:
"Millionaires’ Blueprint to Success".  (Well, maybe you could, if it
were listed on Amazon, but it’s not, at least not yet.  The link he provides leads to Amazon’s top page.)  And he tells us about said book.  Or will at some point, according to his website, since the Reviews, Overview, Table of Contents, Introduction and FAQ all say "coming soon…….)

From IvyGate:

What do you do after you become an internet
phenom, subject to interweb-wide flogging and public humiliation? If you’re
Vayner, you proceed as though basically nothing has happened. You insist on the
genius of the “Impossible is Nothing” video by disregarding the
“mockery” from the “the kids in the bloggosphere [sic]” and claiming the
just fruits of “international publicity” for having “created a marketing
peace [yes, that’s another sic] of himself.”

The website’s main point is ostensibly to promote Vayner’s (theoretically)
forthcoming book Millionaires’ Blueprint to Success (remember his previously
forthcoming book? His Holocaust memoir?). Suspiciously, the cover is almost an
exact copy of the similarly titled Secrets of the Millionaire’s Mind by T. Harv
Eker. I’m sure the contents are totally different though. Is this kid retarded?

Excerpts from his biography that appears on his website:

Aleksey Vayner Aleksey Vayner first
received international publicity as a student at Yale University when he created
a marketing peace of himself – a video, titled Impossible is Nothing, where he
summed up his view on ‘success’ and showcased some of his athletic pursuits.
He received his share of mockery from kids in the bloggosphere, but more
notably, was featured in NY Times, interviewed by Yale herald, and appeared on
MsNBC News and 20/20. CBS News’ The Early Show segment on video resumes, Video
Resumes Get The Job Done, credited Aleksey Vayner for opening people’s eyes to
the idea, “creating a more powerful, authentic method to connect with a
potential employer," and potentially making the 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper an
"endangered species."…..

He becomes 2nd in the country few years
later. At the age of 11 Aleksey immigrates to the United States with his mother
and sister. They arrive without a word of English, without money or even
clothing. Aleksey’s sister, sick with hepatitis, is rushed to emergency room.
“Leaving Tashkent we each had a bag of clothing, but mine was stolen out of
our cabin on our way to Moscow,” explains Aleksey. Furnishing their
subbasement room, clothing and feeding himself from the garbage heaps marked his
new life in America. “I remember the first New Year we had in the U.S. We had
4 large ripe oranges on the table that my mom found on the site of a street –
nothing else. A series of events and humiliation that I felt for my mom and sis
as the result of such poverty made me vow that we will never experience such
financial strain ever again.” Obsessed with the lifestyle of the affluent
businessmen and professional athletes, Aleksey begins to study in detail what
they do and how they do it. Recovering from a bad car-bike accident, Aleksey
uses some of the proceeds from the lawsuit to develop trading systems…….

At the same time experiencing a loosing
year in money management for a client makes him shift gears from developing
systems to risk management. Aleksey Vayner is recruited to Ivy Leagues, of which
he chooses Yale University. During freshman year he recalls nearly failing
introductory macroeconomics because he was up for 3 days developing a high
probability derivative strategy based off of the Black-Scholles options pricing
model.

The Triumphant Return of Aleksey Vayner! - Gawker via IvyGate:
BREAKING NEWS: VAYNER’S BACK! – IvyGate

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