How to sell private jets to billionaires...

less than 1m read

·Nov 3, 2024

This is a very hectic day in the life of a corporate jet broker. I came into the office at 7:30. I was about to get ready for an important meeting I had at 10:00 when I got a call from George Ganopoulos from Lux Aviation.

"You're kidding! Client, we just bought a PR 600 for. Wanted to come a day earlier to see the plane at JEDX Bing Hill Airport. That's an hour's drive away or 6 minutes by helicopter from Battery."

The broker representing that airplane is actually coming into our office in 2 hours. I thrive on adrenaline; it's what keeps me going. In situations like these, it's what keeps the business going too. It’s Deal or No Deal. If you don't show up, you lose; but if you do show up and everything goes to plan, that's the most amazing feeling. It never gets old.

Anyway, back to reality. George manages jets, and when a buyer wants to see a jet, it has to be perfect. We checked the plane to make sure everything was looking good. All the records were perfect, and it was meeting done.

"Back to the office!"

"Yeah, I'm on my way now. Let's keep him happy."

"Okay, I made it."

Dostoevsky - Don't Become A Slave to Pleasure

RECESSION ALERT: The FED Just Crashed The Stock Market

View All

15 Things Everyone Wants But Money Can’t Buy

You know, there are things money can’t buy. You know it, but you forget it. You forget that fundamentally, you’re on the same level as the richest people in the world. You have to appreciate these things now, so that when your wealth grows, your motivatio…

Khan Academy Ed Talks with Begoña Vila, PhD - Thursday October 13

Hello and welcome to Ed Talks with Khan Academy. I’m Kristen Deserva, the Chief Learning Officer at Khan Academy, and today I’m excited to welcome Dr. Begonia Villa, who is an astrophysicist and the lead systems engineer for two of the instruments on the …

The Entire History of Space, I guess

[Music] Earth and civilization as we know it has come a long way in the past 200,000 years and has experienced a multitude of changes. In that time, the human species has only existed for a mere 0.0015% of the immense 13.7 billion year age of the universe…