BIO: Tyron Giuliani is an Australian entrepreneur who moved to Tokyo on a whim, where he went on to work with 67 Fortune 500 companies to build their management teams in Asia. He hosted Vice President Al Gore in Japan after winning his Nobel Peace Prize.
STORY: Tyron got introduced to two celebrity business moguls by his big shot CFO friend. The two were starting a new company and asked Tyron to invest. He said yes without understanding what he was getting himself into. The two partners did not see eye to eye businesswise, leading to the company’s death before it even got off the ground. Tyron lost $300,000 in the process.
LEARNING: Don’t let ego mislead you into getting into a bad investment. Do not be blinded by the upside and let an expert do your due diligence for you before you invest.
“Unless you truly know what you’re doing, have another person’s eyes look at your deals.”
Tyron Giuliani
Tyron Giuliani is an Australian entrepreneur, but after being injured and suffering a permanent disability while in the Australian Army, he left Australia on a whim and moved to Tokyo, Japan.
He had one suitcase, no friends, no family, and no Japanese language skills whatsoever.
Fast forward 22 years and he is still there, speaks Japanese like a 3-year-old, but has co-founded, founded, and partnered in three 7-to-8 figure businesses.
He started his first business servicing weddings as an ordained minister, and that business provides wedding dresses to over 420 weddings a month.
To working with 67 Fortune 500 companies to build their management teams in Asia, hosting Vice President Al Gore in Japan after winning his Nobel Peace prize, to opening a K-pop event space in Tokyo.
And since 2017 coaching other B2B business owners his unique methods of transforming LinkedIn from a stale, resume profile approach to recreating your own personal mini-website in LinkedIn and using a sales funnel there to land clients.
When Tyron first went to Japan, he started out teaching English. He soon realized that the country had a lot of potential, and so he was always on the look for opportunities.
Tyron met a guy who was a CFO of a very famous Italian luxury brand, and they became good friends.
Fast forward many years, Tyron was a partner in a recruitment firm. He got in contact again with his friend. At the time, he was the CFO of Virgin Cinemas in Japan, and he was friends with Richard Branson and was quite a well-known guy.
Tyron later got a call from his CFO friend saying that he had an investment opportunity for him. Knowing how much influence his friend had, Tyron was indeed interested in the opportunity. He met with the CFO, and he introduced him to his old boss, who was a big shot in the business world. He had partnered with an award-winning creative director. Investing in two big shots sounded like a good plan. Tyron was too excited to have been considered for this opportunity.
The two guys were starting a nutraceutical company, and the plan was to get it to $300 million. Tyron was entirely sold to the idea, and so he invested $300,000 into the company. The two founders’ previous success blinded him, and he believed they would turn the company over in probably six months.
Things did not go as Tyron had predicted. The two partners were burning through the cash, and they kept clashing about how to do things. One was very much about testing, while the other was about creativity.
Tyron kept