Inside The Global Matrix
A Blog by Lew Santelises
About the founder
Luis “Lew” Santelises likes to be called Lew by his friends during relaxed conversations. He also likes to be called Lew because he sees himself as a pioneer in the worlds of finance and media and entertainment. He has been greatly influenced by two men, one in finance, Reginald Lewis and one in media, Lew Wasserman. The two were different men but both men had Lew in their first or last names and both were pioneers in their respective industries. Lewis was the first African-American to become a billionaire investor. Wasserman was a media mogul who became the first agent to completely transform the power structure in Hollywood by shifting power away from the studios and towards the actors and the creative talent in the industry.
Why The Matrix Metaphor
Have you ever made an investment in a stock or real estate property and you just knew that the value would go up only to watch it go down and down and down?
The problem is The Matrix. Except here they are not machines. In the world of investing, the matrix is made up CEOs, real estate promoters, tech and biotech entrepreneurs pitching IPOs, central bankers, banks, mutual funds, insurance companies, heads of state, and other intermediaries, telling you that everything is going to be okay. And of course the biggest promoter of all, Wall Street. The sum total of all their promoting, usually to buy, but once in a blue moon to sell, creates a system that is very similar to the matrix in the hit movie, The Matrix.