Muesli Origins

Many of my less successful business associates have been asking me lately, “Oh great Muesli, where did you get your formal education again?” Some even repeat unjustified claims that I am a college dropout!

Rest assured, rumours about my dropout are greatly exaggerated. My goal today is to debunk these nasty fake claims once and for all and explain my educational path in great detail. Buckle up, this is going to be a wild ride.

Already as a child, my parents noticed my impeccable skills in stock trading and running a business. At the age of 6, I was consulting my parents about their investments full time. This was the first time I noticed how people could be grouped to two distinct categories: losers and me.

6 year old me and my father conducting legitimate business in the 90s (source: family archives)

Despite my flawless consigliering, my parents lost 90 % of their net worth with badly timed investments in Russian bonds and LTCM in the late 1990s.

Needless to say, my parents kicked me out. Of the kitchen. And sent me to my room.

They say adversity and misfortune grow a man’s character. Indeed, this multi-hour agonizing excommunicado from my investment community was my personal wandering in the desert. A true via dolorosa.

I locked myself in my room and ran towards my beloved mahogany bookshelf. I already at that time had a fine collection of some of the best investment books ever written. Biographies from great investors and businessmen like Jim Cramer, Bernie Madoff, and Charles Ponzi. I started to throw books around my room in stochastic manner in pure psychosis!

This was the first time in my life when I was struck by 25 sigma event. All stars aligned and it hit me. I understood the single most important principle in life: In this world, you got to make the business first. Then when you sell that business, you become a venture capitalist. Then you have all the power.

This quickly become my life’s deepest meaning. I became an early investor and CEO of Muesli Business Solutions. That business quickly become one of the most wanted properties of the dotcom bubble. I sold mueslibusinesssolutions.com with an undisclosed amount to certain unnamed web company (definitely not Yahoo!) and finally became a VC.

This is how Muesli VC was born.

So never again ask me about my businesses.

As for my educational path is concerned, I have attended some of the most prestigious schools in the world. For due diligence reasons I won’t disclose official documents and proofs of attendance.