Ali Abdaal

[hollowcrown]

Who on Earth is paying for that trash website

It's literally just content from his Youtube channel spliy up into an easy to manage "course" what a joke

 

[Machtc99]

watch


Again, money
He should become a meme!

 

[hollowcrown]

I guess he has given up all pretense of being a doctor now apart from when he can market himself as a doctor for the prestige and making people think he is an authority.

I've watched the video. All it has shown me that I think Ali is actually terrible with money. He might be making a lot of money but he is also spaffing so much money away on business savings? Like he's paying $6000 a month for COACHING for his employees which I guess is admirable but also that's the cost of paying 3 people a month at like a $30k annual salary?

I bet he's a tit boss too. Someone so obsessed with productivity and also paying for food for their employees when they're working late gives me big "Please put in more than your contracted hours, because we're supplying pizza" vibes.

Also notice how he is once again doing it in DOLLARS despite living in the UK and trading in GBP. Why is he doing this? Hmm I wonder.

 

[Machtc99]

He employs 11 people - 7 full time, has 6 coaches, and spends monthly $84 000 just for the videos of money, and what "interesting" book he has read xD


And he has the balls to give people advices how they should invest as he would be a professionally trained finance person xD

INSANITY!

 

[hollowcrown]

The more he reveals about his personal and business finances the less credible he becomes.

 

[JohnMasters]

Mind blown, imagine employing so many people and spending so much money just to run a mediocre YT channel with 2 videos a week and a website with the occasional article once in a blue moon. I won't even touch on the course which is a collection of free info with the occasional personal Ali touch that involves developing elaborate systems with funny names that never get used again. He seems like the type to read random books and just make up jobs just so he feels like a CEO of something. He's literally creating busywork for people to do so he can be all like "hey team whazaaaaa". Next up, a 2 hour course on how to turn your computer on in the most productive way possible. I can't believe people associate the word with him nowadays, he's absolutely the antithesis of real productivity. His shtick is just crappy busywork disguised as valuable actions in the guise of "productivity systems" with silly names that even he doesn't follow.

I like how he keeps saying "we" spend X on WeWork. Hopefully the people participating in this charade don't have to actually contribute to the "fund" just to have the honor to sit at a desk in a rental of a failing scam company like WeWork. Even people who plan elaborate military operations can work remotely but Ali drags his yes-men with him to WeWork so he can feel like he's strategizing some grand takeover. Judging by his IG stories and previous videos, it's more like playing tabletop games and bleeping around but "feeling" productive.

The "coaches" topic... My bleeping god, not even gonna.

Boggles the mind how his fans can find this kind of content inspiring or valuable in any way. I've never watched a video that made me go "what the f..." more times. Not even those viral tiktok fail compilations raise my eyebrows this many times.

 

[hollowcrown]

WeWork is a massive scam. Ali really needs a healthy dose of skepticism in his life if he's paying a bunch of his businesses money to something he could do at a library or at a cafe for free.

You can tell he just buys into every single idea someone pitches to him. He's clearly read a book about co-working spaces or something and now decided it is the single best thing ever. Every book is "life changing" and he's probably getting told something by his £150 an hour "coach" and then rolls it out to his "business" and then has to drag everyone along with it and change the entire direction of the busienss until he reads another book or speaks to a different coach and then has a new idea which is the best thing ever.





Honestly how is he paying 11 people for this channel & associated business. If it was just him working full time on his channel I would say the content is underwhelming enough - graphic design is bad, cinematography is adequate, content is being recycled and he doesn't even do his vlogs on the main channel any more. But 11 people? Is he just paying people to sit around with him and pretend to be a CEO entrepeneur? If he's paying people to write his videos and do his editing why does he need all of this "tech" and apps to be productive? He was paying someone to be his assistant and sort out all of his life admin for him!

I am convinced 70% of his time is just him cycling through his "productivity" apps of which he has so many that he's just not productive any more.

 

[hollowcrown]

Long video but this is Ali down to a tee. I'm not sure if he realises he is doing it but he is. Flexing lifestyle, getting people hooked with their YouTube videos, newslatters etc and then selling them expensive courses. Plenty of these finance YouTubers are just the new generation of Get Rich Quick Gurus, but with parasocial relationships as the front now.



Good on the video maker to call out "humble minimalist king" Nathaniel Drew as a scammy guru.

 

[hollowcrown]

Not on Ali's channel but it is an interesting watch but Ali is basically unaware of his employees doing 50-60 hour weeks. His business is clearly a cult of personality in which he has a bunch of people who look up to him as inspirational basically running his life for him whilst he just acts as a figure head. 24 minutes onwards is incredible, he looks so out of touch and just like he has no idea how to manage people.

 

[Emmog]

The video above shows what an appalling manager and ceo he is - he’s a fraud if he thinks the way he treats people is the way to run a business and this employee gives away how chaotic and disorganised he is. Total fraud.

 

[Machtc99]

Well i agree he's fraud.
Look at him at the end of that video, he's trying to convince her that it's her problem that she works 50-60h weekly.
He reminds me of my past manager who said that maybe I'm not good enough for the position as I was constantly making overtime. He forgot to mention that before transition from UK to PL that workload was done by 3 people. He treated us as slaves and I get the same "bossy" vibes from Ali.

The saddest thing is that he still has big audience and is surrounded by people which admire him...

 

[Hasanah123]

Well i agree he's fraud.
Look at him at the end of that video, he's trying to convince her that it's her problem that she works 50-60h weekly.
He reminds me of my past manager who said that maybe I'm not good enough for the position as I was constantly making overtime. He forgot to mention that before transition from UK to PL that workload was done by 3 people. He treated us as slaves and I get the same "bossy" vibes from Ali.

The saddest thing is that he still has big audience and is surrounded by people which admire him...

Why do we expect him to care when its known je lacks sympathy? What was it, his ex teacher telling him he wouldnt be good for medicine because he shows no empathy/feelings? Ali has a lot of internal issues to work on. He reeks of being a narc and a robot who just stares and lacks every emotion known to man

 

[Welshgal]

Props to everyone who watched the video. I couldn‘t get passed the first 3 minutes as I found it so awkward

 

[Machtc99]

Props to everyone who watched the video. I couldn‘t get passed the first 3 minutes as I found it so awkward

I just watched last 8 minutes. I get from her creepy vibes, like she would be a sweet teenager who fell in love with next pop boysband or something.

 

[JohnMasters]

As I said in a previous post, it's pretty clear that they hooked up. Only braindead fans could look at this and not spot the gut wrenching awkwardness seeping from this interaction. She's behaving like an enamored schoolgirl and from her description he's acting like someone with special needs. It's really bleeping hard to watch. Not charging your employer for hours worked so he gets to buy more Apple products and flex about how "productive" they make him—nice going Elizabeth, you're the reason some employers treat people like tit, cause they can get away with it. You're bragging about being a wet rag for this doofus like it's some feat of ethics.

So far two employees declared they wouldn't quit their jobs if he halved their pay. In other words, two key employees would willingly switch to a diet of cup noodles so this clown would keep more of his wealth after flexing for several videos that his "business" (that these same two employees administer and prop up) makes 3 million. A business that doesn't imply any of the expenses that an actual real business would incur. It's literally a guy sitting in his bleeping apartment talking random tit (but still choosing to pay $1500 a month for WeWork so he can jerk his ego off about being in an office with his yes-men). How's that kool-aid tasting Elizabeth? Dunno which is worse at this point, Angus who 'gets pleasure from building Ali's "brand"' or Elizabeth who "learned so much". Sounds like, along with Elizabeth, he also managed to gaslight almost 2 million people into believing they've learned so much as if he's the only youtuber out there who uses Notion or talks about Tim Ferriss every 5 seconds. Unbelievable.

 

[hollowcrown]

Why do we expect him to care when its known je lacks sympathy? What was it, his ex teacher telling him he wouldnt be good for medicine because he shows no empathy/feelings? Ali has a lot of internal issues to work on. He reeks of being a narc and a robot who just stares and lacks every emotion known to man

The funny thing is he's still repeating the medical school interview routine of "I want to be a doctor because I want to help people I have empathy" despite the fact he's admitting having poor empathy in previous videos. The far more honest answer was that fact he wanted to be a doctor that could also code as it's more unique but he goes back to that empathy answer. He seems like one of the least empathic persons I've ever seen on YouTube and that's a site full of narcissists.

As I said in a previous post, it's pretty clear that they hooked up. Only braindead fans could look at this and not spot the gut wrenching awkwardness seeping from this interaction. She's behaving like an enamored schoolgirl and from her description he's acting like someone with special needs. It's really bleeping hard to watch. Not charging your employer for hours worked so he gets to buy more Apple products and flex about how "productive" they make him—nice going Elizabeth, you're the reason some employers treat people like tit, cause they can get away with it. You're bragging about being a wet rag for this doofus like it's some feat of ethics.

So far two employees declared they wouldn't quit their jobs if he halved their pay. In other words, two key employees would willingly switch to a diet of cup noodles so this clown would keep more of his wealth after flexing for several videos that his "business" (that these same two employees administer and prop up) makes 3 million. A business that doesn't imply any of the expenses that an actual real business would incur. It's literally a guy sitting in his bleeping apartment talking random tit (but still choosing to pay $1500 a month for WeWork so he can jerk his ego off about being in an office with his yes-men). How's that kool-aid tasting Elizabeth? Dunno which is worse at this point, Angus who 'gets pleasure from building Ali's "brand"' or Elizabeth who "learned so much". Sounds like, along with Elizabeth, he also managed to gaslight almost 2 million people into believing they've learned so much as if he's the only youtuber out there who uses Notion or talks about Tim Ferriss every 5 seconds. Unbelievable.

The sheer lack of avoiding eye contact with her whilst she was angling to look in his face was so awkward. Something has definitely happened there whether it's some sexting or nudes or something...and Ali obviously can't admit that . Very weird behaviour.

His business sense is an absolute disgrace. Whether or not he's sleeping with his employees, the first thing he should have done upon hearing that his friends/employees were putting in 50-60 hour weeks was say let's hire someone else right now, I'll get the ad posted straight away or help you write it up. It's not like he's an actual high level CEO who doesn't have the time to do that, he's managing a crappy YouTube and skillshare "business". Has now outsourced his life to them so he can have maximum free time bleeping about with his apps and can't do anything at all for himself. It's his employees fault as well for putting up with such a man child but at the end of the day the responsibility falls with him as the "CEO".

Hope it all falls down soon. He does not deserve this level of money and success butt honestly I don't think he is competent enough to manage anything much bigger.

 

[JohnMasters]

His business sense is an absolute disgrace. Whether or not he's sleeping with his employees, the first thing he should have done upon hearing that his friends/employees were putting in 50-60 hour weeks was say let's hire someone else right now, I'll get the ad posted straight away or help you write it up. It's not like he's an actual high level CEO who doesn't have the time to do that, he's managing a crappy YouTube and skillshare "business". Has now outsourced his life to them so he can have maximum free time bleeping about with his apps and can't do anything at all for himself. It's his employees fault as well for putting up with such a man child but at the end of the day the responsibility falls with him as the "CEO".

Hope it all falls down soon. He does not deserve this level of money and success butt honestly I don't think he is competent enough to manage anything much bigger.

He was raised by a single mother. It's not surprising he is this incompetent at doing basic things. He spent an entire life coddled by mommy. Right now outsourcing seems to have replaced mommy. Someone who actually has a male role model would not act like such a clueless loser and would perhaps (in case of a good father) start taking more responsibility and being a bit more present.

All of his productivity idols have achieved something in their lives through experiences. He forgets that his #1 idol Tim Ferriss went through some extreme feats of physical prowess and traveled to places all over the world being curious about other cultures and people. He thinks he can just listen to a couple of podcasts, read a couple of books, write some crappy notes and BECOME that guy. Absolute fraud. Now he thinks he can write a book and keeps trashing it constantly because it's turning out to be a piece of tit. Yeah Ali, copy/pasting life advice from other books and trying to fill in the gaps with useless fluff doesn't make for an interesting book. You have NO LIFE and NO STORY TO TELL. You went to school, started YouTube and got lucky by belonging to a certain demographic and having the Cambridge tag. That's literally it. It amounts to nothing. You're just filling your calendar with random tit to appear busy so your fans can worship you for being such a "productivity" god. Even Artificial Intelligence could achieve a more organic life than this dork is living.

All of his social media feeds are full of bleeping tidbits of life advice coming from someone who doesn't know what a life is. It's hilarious that people actually claim to get value from this. Guess it's not surprise that social media is full of knuckleheads.

 

[Machtc99]

On this video, the cringe exceeds all levels. He's not humble at all, he doesn't look at her...
Then around 13:30 he is angry because she's got different view on leaving 9-5 job...

Ali, if you want to get married, learn some emotional skills and stop being a douche bag. Respect your guests.

 

[hollowcrown]

On this video, the cringe exceeds all levels. He's not humble at all, he doesn't look at her...
Then around 13:30 he is angry because she's got different view on leaving 9-5 job...

Ali, if you want to get married, learn some emotional skills and stop being a douche bag. Respect your guests.

Yeah I ended up watching this one too because it was curious.

He is an out of touch idiot. If everyone had a "skill" they could "monetise" (that's called a job for most people Ali) to quit their 9-5 job then the economy would collapse. She has by far the more nuanced view on that. He's so out of touch but that's expected given that he's been making "passive income" since his early 20s and never really needing to work.

It's also unbelievable that he's set up that marriage email inbox and then never checks it. No wonder he is getting no success with women if he's so terrible at replying. Probably takes 2 weeks to reply on Tinder or directs them to his calendar booking system to arrange a date and then is surprised when girls unmatch him.

Such a level of emotional disconnect to other humans and no empathy.

 

[Machtc99]

It's also unbelievable that he's set up that marriage email inbox and then never checks it. No wonder he is getting no success with women if he's so terrible at replying. Probably takes 2 weeks to reply on Tinder or directs them to his calendar booking system to arrange a date and then is surprised when girls unmatch him.
Such a level of emotional disconnect to other humans and no empathy.

I can’t believe that he’s made such mailbox, because It’s confirming he treats people like objects. Srly, you want to meet your second half, create a life together and not be alone, and you make a mailbox and require „CV with photo” WTF????? He’s not Ricky Martin or something…

I’m also shocked that there are women who agree to play this game with him. Either desperate women or with some kind of willingness to ”correct him”.

Ladies, he’s not McDreamy, don't try to buy his fake attitude, otherwise you will end up looking at him when he’ll ignore you and will look at the camera.