Patrick Bet-David went from fleeing a war-torn Iran to building his own financial services firm, raising tens of millions of dollars, and founding Valuetainment, the most popular YouTube channel for entrepreneurs. Ray Dalio, Kevin Hart, the late Kobe Bryant, President George W. Bush, and others have all praised his unconventional approach to business and life. Bush, as well as a slew of other notables. His social media post has been seen more than a billion times. Patrick never completed a college education and worked his way up from the army to selling health club memberships before settling into the financial services industry.

He launched PHP, a financial services firm, at the age of thirty. With his wife and three children, he lives in Dallas.