BIO: Johnny Widodo is CEO in an automotive startup space with over 16 years of experience across multiple industries and geographies.
STORY: Johnny saw a colleague who was making crazy money trading stocks daily. Johnny decided to do what his colleague was doing and ended up losing about $30,000.
LEARNING: Learn and do your research to understand the investment first before you sign off on it. The game of investing is about how much you have at the end of the game.
“There is no instant thing in life. Everything follows a process.”
Johnny Widodo
Johnny Widodo is CEO in an automotive startup space with over 16 years of experience across multiple industries and geographies. He is active as a global speaker, advisory board member, and mentor in various organizations. He is co-author of 2 books and has published his biography. In his free time, he is passionate about weightlifting and hosts the J-Talk Podcast.
When Johhny just started working, he had this former schoolmate and colleague who sat beside him at work. The colleague would just play his stocks, and Johnny could literally see him making hundreds, even $1,000 every day. This all seemed too easy, and obviously, he was interested in making such amounts of money so quickly.
Johnny started to pump all the money he made into the same stocks as his colleague. As soon as he began trading, the market collapsed, and he lost 95% of his investment, a total of about $30,000.
If you have some money that you can afford to lose, put it out and play. But before you play, you have to do a lot of research on what you are going to invest in to balance your risks.
Johnny’s number one goal for the next 12 months is to build the largest automotive ecosystem in Indonesia. He is also trying to deadlift six plates of like 260 kg. He’s currently doing 230 kg.
“Be responsible for your life. It’s okay to make mistakes, to make your worst investment but just make sure you learn and move on and win the game.”
Johnny Widodo
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