Billionaire's Dinner Flight

Jess Mah shares a story about how a billionaire demonstrated the importance of showing up in person for relationships.

"I had a billionaire do this for me where he literally flew in from South America and went straight from the airport to dinner with me. That was the first time I had a one-on-one meeting with this person, and it really made an impression on me. I thought 'wow this guy went out of his way' - he was planning to go to some other city instead, but he came to LA to meet me just for dinner. And he's more important than I am by a million miles, he's so much more important than I am.

After that, I had another billionaire who I hit it off with. We hung out for drinks as part of a bigger group and had two hours where he just talked about the meaning of life, all of his regrets, all the things he'd do different. He's like this 70-something year old dude and he said 'everyone wants me for my money but no one just asked me these questions that you're asking me about life advice.' I said 'we should continue this - where do you live?' He says 'I live in the Bahamas.' I'm like 'great, I'm visiting you.' We booked the time and I'm seeing him for dinner in 3 weeks. I want to literally go there just to see him and get 4 hours of downloading this man's wisdom."