Post: #76

Tucker has enough that he was going to donate $500,000 to Planned Parenthood for the tax break. He's writing regularly about startup investing. In his last book he talked about buying a 100,000$ car. He may not be Jay-Z rich, but he has a large stack of money.

Also - article is old and that writer (who lives in Berkeley) gave a talk with his wife about "worshiping the feminine."

Sidenote sidenote: Friend of a friend banged his wife before they got married.

Post: #77

He always struck me as a little rick boy. His confidence greased with money and social cred.

Post: #78

(02-23-2014 10:25 PM)runsonmagic Wrote:  Tucker has enough that he was going to donate $500,000 to Planned Parenthood for the tax break. He's writing regularly about startup investing. In his last book he talked about buying a 100,000$ car. He may not be Jay-Z rich, but he has a large stack of money.

I wonder how much is from his books vs his other wealth. His first book was a bestseller but that was years ago. The other books didn't do so well, and the movie basically flopped.

Meanwhile, I believe his father owns a large restaurant chain (Max's) and I'd imagine that's being passed to him or he has a trust fund related to it.

Based on his writing, I'd say he's an intelligent guy, but I'm not so sure he made millions from his books.

Post: #79

I have a friend that banged a couple of the same girls as him on the east coast in the early 2000s. This friend seemed to always be able to find and identify the sluttiest and most annoying girls I've ever met. I suspect that was Tucker's skill as well.

I read some of his stuff around the very early 2000s as well and watched one of his lectures a few years ago. Overall I'm not a hater but it's obvious he really mismanaged things.

Post: #80

He was interviewed by James Altucher recently. Seems like he has his head on straight. I like his story of basically lifehacking law school.

Post: #81

This is weird. There seems to be a lot of compelling circumstantial evidence that the guy made hardly anything from his book sales, but I saw him profiled in NY Mag recently where he said he made good money from his books. He's supposedly a successful start-up investor now.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...estor.html

Quote:"I made a pretty good amount of money selling books," Max told me in an interview this week, when I asked why he'd turned his attention to start-ups. "I was looking around thinking, where can I put my money? And at the same time, I happened to have a lot of friends who are in tech and start-ups ... I’m famous enough that there’s a ton of tech people who got to know me in other ways, and they said, 'Holy shit, this guy knows ten times more about advertising than these people I’m paying a bunch of money to!'"

I'd be surprised if he didn't make much though because both books were NYT bestsellers, but I guess that may not count for much either. Wouldn't know.

I did read IHTSBIH and I laughed many times reading his stories. His writing style is damn good.

He's also a very intelligent dude, finished college in three years at a no-nonsense school and got a scholarship to a top 15 law school. There was one semester in his second year where he never even went to class because he moved to Cancun. Still came back to take the finals and passed. That's nuts.

It's because of Tucker Max that the American Bar Association mandated attendance policy requirements at law schools after word of his Cancun adventures got out.

Post: #82

According to celebrity net worth, he's worth $5m (if anyone is interested).

Don't know where they get their info from, but it's a pretty well-known site.

Post: #83

I've read all of his books, and I must say that there's only 1 of his story that seems like it can't be true(ironically the one where he got trashed on the Opie and Anthony show). I won't compare the content of Roosh to Tucker since they're way different. But 1 thing that I've felt while reading both of them, is the honest, raw to the bone truth that some people can't stand about women!!

In a world full of hypocrisy, their writings are honest. In my book, he has game due to his narcissistic personality, but has a lack of inner game. In his first book he was getting laid without the fame due to his cockiness, sense of humor, not putting women on a pedestal, all the sign of good game.

Plus he came from money so he was set. The only difference is that for him these traits came from being a true a hole, and not from studying game like us. The outcome is the same, but we have the inner game reasons why they traits attract women and how to keep them as long as possible while being happy. That's where he was lacking since he always taught about himself and was too emotional like a woman.

By reading the interview, he simply wants to settle down. In my view he's a natural alpha because he won't ever put a woman on a pedestal while being unhappy. He will never keep the attraction of a woman by using is money to by her stuff all the time. He know's that it's his personality that keeps women and knows what the true nature of women are since he hooked up with so much. In my book, by going to therapy, he's getting the equivalent of the manosphere and setting his inner game straight to be a true Alpha

Post: #84

any of you guys like I hope they serve beer in hell?

felt like reading field reports on PUA sites...thinking about returning it to get money back!

Post: #85

(02-24-2014 12:24 AM)Hencredible Casanova Wrote:  This is weird. There seems to be a lot of compelling circumstantial evidence that the guy made hardly anything from his book sales, but I saw him profiled in NY Mag recently where he said he made good money from his books. He's supposedly a successful start-up investor now.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...estor.html

Quote:"I made a pretty good amount of money selling books," Max told me in an interview this week, when I asked why he'd turned his attention to start-ups. "I was looking around thinking, where can I put my money? And at the same time, I happened to have a lot of friends who are in tech and start-ups ... I’m famous enough that there’s a ton of tech people who got to know me in other ways, and they said, 'Holy shit, this guy knows ten times more about advertising than these people I’m paying a bunch of money to!'"

I'd be surprised if he didn't make much though because both books were NYT bestsellers, but I guess that may not count for much either. Wouldn't know.

I did read IHTSBIH and I laughed many times reading his stories. His writing style is damn good.

He's also a very intelligent dude, finished college in three years at a no-nonsense school and got a scholarship to a top 15 law school. There was one semester in his second year where he never even went to class because he moved to Cancun. Still came back to take the finals and passed. That's nuts.

It's because of Tucker Max that the American Bar Association mandated attendance policy requirements at law schools after word of his Cancun adventures got out.

You'd be surprised how little you have to do in law school to pass...I considered not even living in the country as well during one year while I went to school and just returning for finals...I didn't do it but it wouldn't have been difficult. In many classes you can do fine without even reading or owning the textbook and/or going to class as long as you have a good set of summaries.

Post: #86

(02-24-2014 12:24 AM)Hencredible Casanova Wrote:  He's also a very intelligent dude, finished college in three years at a no-nonsense school and got a scholarship to a top 15 law school. There was one semester in his second year where he never even went to class because he moved to Cancun. Still came back to take the finals and passed. That's nuts.

It's because of Tucker Max that the American Bar Association mandated attendance policy requirements at law schools after word of his Cancun adventures got out.

That's actually not nuts at all. At elite law schools, finals are 100% of your grade and class attendance is so worthless as to be a complete joke. Also, grading curves at those schools are set up so failing is almost impossible. The bottom 7-10% get Cs.

My school published granulated-data grade curves for all the classes every semester, complete with the number of people who received each grade in each class. I saw 4 total Fs in three years. All four were in the same semester and were probably the same person who dropped out and just never completed the actual finals.

Oh, and the ABA requirement for attendance only gets enforced at schools much farther down the totem pole. The top 14 couldn't care less.

Post: #87

You're not going to see Fs in most top tier law schools, med schools, or just about any other top level graduate program. Grad school isn't like college where the first two years are about tossing you curve balls to weed out those who can't cut it. The top places take only the people they know are going to graduate.

Post: #88

(02-24-2014 12:53 AM)Captain Gh Wrote:  In a world full of hypocrisy, their writings are honest. In my book, he has game due to his narcissistic personality, but has a lack of inner game. In his first book he was getting laid without the fame due to his cockiness, sense of humor, not putting women on a pedestal, all the sign of good game.

I always thought the reason he got laid so much prior to becoming a B-list celebrity was for the reasons you stated and also because of his looks: not that he's particularly good looking but he has the whole preppy upper-middle class frat boy look down to a tee. It's a lesson in congruencey - some IRT with the same personality would get laughed out of every place he was hanging out at if he acted like that but in Tucker Max's instance his image perfectly fit his personality so it worked very well for him.

In the long standing debate about looks vs. game my contribution to it would be: besides doing the most to improve your looks as much as possible (working out, grooming) you should also gear your looks to the type of game you are working. If you are doing frat boy game, stock up on the backwards baseball caps and Polo shirts. If you are doing hipster games, sport the scarves and stupid 1920s style mustaches etc.

Post: #89

(02-24-2014 02:33 AM)lurker Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 12:24 AM)Hencredible Casanova Wrote:  He's also a very intelligent dude, finished college in three years at a no-nonsense school and got a scholarship to a top 15 law school. There was one semester in his second year where he never even went to class because he moved to Cancun. Still came back to take the finals and passed. That's nuts.

It's because of Tucker Max that the American Bar Association mandated attendance policy requirements at law schools after word of his Cancun adventures got out.

That's actually not nuts at all. At elite law schools, finals are 100% of your grade and class attendance is so worthless as to be a complete joke. Also, grading curves at those schools are set up so failing is almost impossible. The bottom 7-10% get Cs.

My school published granulated-data grade curves for all the classes every semester, complete with the number of people who received each grade in each class. I saw 4 total Fs in three years. All four were in the same semester and were probably the same person who dropped out and just never completed the actual finals.

Oh, and the ABA requirement for attendance only gets enforced at schools much farther down the totem pole. The top 14 couldn't care less.

Nah. It's not as easy as you suggest considering Tucker Max went HAM while in Cancun. This dude was getting obliterated virtually every night the entire semester, no studying, tons of drinking and partying. He was basically chaperoning college students while they were on vacay so you can imagine how wild it was.

Let's be real. Law school students aren't going hard like that, top 14 school or otherwise.

Also, scholarships are rare at the graduate level, so the fact he got one to attend Duke Law - as a white male especially - is impressive. He could have probably went to Harvard with no scholarship.

Post: #90

I remember reading some of his stories about 6 years ago. They might have been all bull shit, but I still laugh thinking about the Absinthe Donuts story in his first book.

Based on his stuff, I had always thought he was a narcissistic ass. With what I know now, I still think he was, however, his line 'all women are whores, except our mothers' is something I've remembered since then. Maybe I don't agree that they're all whores, but it's helped me with avoiding pedestalizing women.

Post: #91

(02-24-2014 10:09 PM)Frontenac Wrote:  I remember reading some of his stories about 6 years ago. They might have been all bull shit, but I still laugh thinking about the Absinthe Donuts story in his first book.

Based on his stuff, I had always thought he was a narcissistic ass. With what I know now, I still think he was, however, his line 'all women are whores, except our mothers' is something I've remembered since then. Maybe I don't agree that they're all whores, but it's helped me with avoiding pedestalizing women.

I will always remember a quote of his from the donuts story, something along the lines of "you are so open minded that your brains fell out!" when he was arguing with some hippie girl...