Building a Lighthouse in the Long Night
The ESW App
This past week we surpassed 100 posts on the ExitStrategy.World Patreon weeks ahead of our first anniversary as a company (shoutout to one of our X acquaintances from Brazil, who shares a name with the composer of the above royalty-free power synth track).
That's right, our co-founders launched Xit Strategy World LLC as a Wyoming corporation in late October 2023. Putting together our initial offers and launching the website took considerably more time, into spring 2024.
Above audio credit: Chill Retro Synthwave Endless Night - "Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio"
While reaching the 100 plus posts mark in of itself is not a great accomplishment--especially as we've switched to more short commentary on video posts in recent weeks--the in-depth insights and commentary we've assembled for the MENA and Eurasia regions are something to be proud of. Especially when it comes to demonstrating deep knowledge and geo economic savvy as a relatively small but global network of experts brought together by our co-founders.
The content we've built up is fundamentally about freedom, and our slogan of Create You Own Free World™ amid what the American author, former CEO and military theorist John Robb refers to as The Long Night--the rise of transnational corporatist networked tyranny (aka the globalist technocrats' NWO) . But the articles published here also relate to the challenge posed by one of our favorite thought leaders in structuring and scaling offers, the Montréal-based Serge Gatari:
He who Owns Distribution WINS. Never ever think that being skilled is the answer to scale. EVER!
4:22 PM · Aug 28, 2024
How do we own the distribution of our services to scale, and in Serge's words, "avoid being commoditized like the plague"?
We certainly aren't the only company offering residency or passport through investment services--although our personalized service, Eurasia-focus and fintech/gold vaulting sister company Royal Amparo DMCC easily distinguishes us from the big CBI mills and many smaller competitors.
So what's going to set ESW up for success over the long haul, distinguish us from the competition, and avoid commoditization of our offshoring/internationalization services at the very moment that millions of affluent to HNW Westerners will start looking for exit strategies?
The answer, which we've alluded to in the previous Patreon post: establish relationships and offer access to a community of relationships, not just a one-time transaction.
While James has previously worked for a Las Vegas-based start-up that tried in vain to build a free-speech social network, and learned that he never wanted to do that again, the arrest of Pavel Durov in France has reinforced our team's conviction that the future of the free world will be built in networked but walled gardens. That is, private clubs of extraordinary gentlemen and ladies who choose freedom and who come together to share wisdom and insights on how to achieve it, principally through building businesses--though simple 'Jeffersonian yeoman farmers' will be welcome in our club. Contrary to some libertarians who never graduated from anarcho-cap high school--as Dmitry @BacktheBunny says, code cannot replace law, men with riot shields/truncheons/tear gas and guns ultimately are law. And as our friend Gus Demos likes to say about what President Nayib Bukele has created in El Salvador, "It's nice to come to a country where the men with guns are on our side for a change".
While living partly online, such clubs will need strong not weak sovereigns for protection in the real world, as wealth alone cannot buy protection, just ask Pavel Durov or Elon Musk. Our goal at ESW is to move as many ethical and determined people into rapidly rebuilding or strong states that can resist the worst depredations of Clown World as we can, while outlasting Clown World until the clowns' cursed Tower of Babel finally collapses on itself. Bukele's presidency as the 'world's most popular strongman' is a signal that we have indeed, entered the 'strong men create good times' portion of the G. Michael Hopf Those Who Remain cycle.
To that end, for months now we've been quietly working on the ESW App, with much discussion behind the scenes, but rarely mentioning our highly ambitious App project to guests during our ESW webcasts. Having analyzed other semi-competitors' apps and working with a seasoned project manager to write the Phase One specs, after multiple rounds of Zoom calls and gathering bids on the tender these past few months, we have now awarded the tender. Congratulations to the winning Eurasia-based dev team!
By the end of this year, we will have the first phase of app functionality, and we anticipate release on the App Store and Android in early Q1 2025. The second phase, arriving by spring, will be the ESW Insiders club. This is the apex of the structure we've been seeking to construct since our co-founder drew up the cocktail napkin pitch for what ESW could become to our CEO.
More big news soon.