{"id":6534,"date":"2016-11-22T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T09:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keblog.demoapp.xyz\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2022-10-19T03:45:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:45:50","slug":"life-lessons-to-learn-from-self-made-billionaire-nix-nolledo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/life-lessons-to-learn-from-self-made-billionaire-nix-nolledo","title":{"rendered":"Life Lessons to Learn From Self-Made Billionaire Nix Nolledo"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does one become a self-made billionaire? For\u00a0Nico Jose \u201cNix\u201d Nolledo<\/a><\/strong>, co-founder and CEO of mobile content provider\u00a0Xurpas Inc.<\/a><\/strong>, it didn\u2019t come in a wrapped up box with golden ribbons tied on it. Instead, it looked like how most self-made billionaires have done it\u2014a lot of dedication and belief in your product, failing countless of times, and trying again and again.<\/p>\n

As a business management graduate from Ateneo de Manila University back in 1998, Nix had a tough time\u00a0looking for a job<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0because of the aftermath of the Asian Financial crisis that erupted year before. He combed every office building in Ayala, submitted his resumes to every company, and eventually got hired as an\u00a0assistant manager<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at a fast-food chain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur someday, so I thought \u2018why not work in a food company or a restaurant?\u2019 And so I applied to all the quick service restaurant companies,\u201d recalled Nix. He took the job offer at KFC because of their good management trainee program, and it was there where he learned the ropes\u00a0on how to operate a company.\u00a0This was also the same time where he became interested and inspired by the stories of international technology companies.<\/p>\n

He saw a great potential of the internet. Nix has gone a long way since then. And although he didn\u2019t become a restaurant entrepreneur as originally planned, he became the next best thing\u2014one of the\u00a0Philippines\u2019 most successful technopreneur<\/a><\/strong>. And we’re talking about\u00a020 plus companies under his belt<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0It didn\u2019t come easy. There were failures\u2013and lots of them\u2013that Nix and his team had to face. But as clich\u00e9 as it may sound, failures are only stepping stones to success. So if you want to become successful, not just on money matters but also on realizing your life goals, here are three advices from Nix that\u2019ll hopefully give you a little push to achieve that.<\/p>\n

\u00a01.\u00a0<\/strong>Ask yourself, \u2018What would you do if you knew you couldn\u2019t fail?\u2019 and then do that. \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cI would always ask myself this question every day. It is a way for me to remind myself to always create or build something because that\u2019s what I want to do,\u201d says Nix.<\/p>\n

Most of us have some kind of dream trapped within us that has somehow become stifled by the fear of failure. Figuring out what to do with your life is a hot topic. But if you were to answer this hypothetical question, what would you do What excites you? What makes you get up in the morning if time and money were no object? What\u2019s bothering you? What problem would you like to fix? If you\u2019re able to get an answer, then next is to start doing things that will help make that answer into a reality.<\/p>\n

2. Know your vision,\u00a0and think long term.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIf you play a game of chess, the best players are usually the ones who think 20 moves ahead.\u201d Have a clear personal vision of yourself, so that every opportunity that you\u2019ll take is going to be a stepping stone to where you want your personal life to go,\u201d advices Nix. “It\u2019s very easy to make mistakes early on, but if you don\u2019t know how you want to design your life in the long term, you will make a lot of unnecessary mistakes. And time is the ultimate resource here. The more wisely you spend time, the more returns you\u2019ll have for yourself,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

3. Don\u2019t lose sight of who you are.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As humans, we are distinct individual voyagers, traveling at our own pace toward our own unique destination. And in that pursuit, it is rather easy to be caught in the web of the madness of the world. \u00a0Try to not lose sight of who you are, what your values are, and what your vision is because that’s what will keep you grounded and focused on your goals. \u201cIt should be very clear to know who you are, whether there is success or failure,\u201d says Nix adding that success and failure goes hand in hand and that you will never truly experience success if you haven\u2019t failed several times.<\/p>\n

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How does one become a self-made billionaire? For\u00a0Nico Jose \u201cNix\u201d Nolledo, co-founder and CEO of mobile content provider\u00a0Xurpas Inc., it didn\u2019t come in a wrapped up box with golden ribbons tied on it. Instead, it looked like how most self-made billionaires have done it\u2014a lot of dedication and belief in your product, failing countless of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}