Mohamed El Hadri
He writes about money the way it actually works - not the way the textbooks pretend it does.
Mohamed El Hadri came up through one of the oldest and biggest industries on earth. He did the work, with his own hands - and then he climbed out of it. Today he doesn’t touch the work at all. He has built a business on thousands of those jobs without doing a single one of them himself anymore. He makes the meeting. He owns the doorway. He keeps the gap.
He started at the bottom of the building, like almost everyone does. How he got off the bottom floor - what it cost him, who he was carrying, the moment he first saw the stairs nobody else could see - he keeps out of MIDDLEMAN on purpose. That book is the map. The story of the man who drew it is another book entirely: The Family Secret.
I came up through it - I did the work, with my own hands - and then I climbed out of it. I don’t touch the work anymore. I make the meeting, and I own the door.
He writes for the person who was told to work harder, when they should have been told to stand somewhere else. His books - MIDDLEMAN and The Family Secret - are the staircase he climbed, written down so a normal person with no money and no name can climb it too.