"Drumroll please" Welcome, everybody to the 2021 MD awards! 🏆🎉

This is going to be an exciting one because this is our first-ever awards issue! Now let's get into it.

1. Event of The Year 📆

• My event of the year is hands-down El Salvador making Bitcoin legal tender and adopting the Bitcoin Standard
• In the span of a decade, Bitcoin managed to grow from an idea to being adopted by a sovereign nation-state. Imagine where we'll be in another decade
• I think we'll look back and see that this was a pivotal moment in history and that's why this is my pick for the event of the year

2. Best Tweet 🐣

• So the story goes like this: there was this news article quoting the director of United Nations as saying that 2% of Elon's wealth ($6B) could solve world hunger and Elon's response to it was absolutely GOLDEN!
• Instead, the WFP (World Food Programme) started a new thread and tweeted a link to a 1000 words executive summary. Total miss!
• This tweet totally made Elon look great and deserve my vote for best tweet!

3. Best Advice 📝

• This was an easy one for me. I was listening to an interview of Stanley Druckenmiller by Trung Phan and his advice stuck with me ever since
• "Make large concentrated bets in high conviction plays"
• I'm the kind of guy who likes to put all their eggs in one basket and watch that basket carefully. That's why this advice resonates with me so well 

4. Best Podcast Episode 🎧

• My winner for best podcast episode is the one from My First Million with Rob Dyrdek
• Rob Dyrdek is a former professional skateboarder turned business mogul who sold nearly $400m worth of companies
• In the pod, he talked about how he structured his portfolio of businesses which was fascinating
• He also talked about this super interesting system he has for organizing his schedule, which includes a calendar scraper tool and analytics
• You should definitely go and listen

5. Best Meme 🎭

• 2021 has been such an exhausting year that when Friday rolls around, all I can think about is literally Daniel Craig saying "Ladies and Gentlemen, the weekend"

Honourable Mentions

• Event of the year: GameStop Short Squeeze. A subreddit managed to coalesce and organize to make trades that moved the market against institutions in a meaningful way and broke several institutions along the way. It shows that retail has power, retail can organize, retail can act as a stronger force

And that's it, everybody! These are this year's MD awards for "One Thing". Stay tuned for Wednesday and Friday's segments to find out who will be their winners!

Now it's your turn to pick. Who is your winner for Segment of The Year? 😏

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