Wealth & Money Quote by Alex Chiu

It is a sales pitch disguised as a shrug. Alex Chiu frames skepticism not as a problem to be answered, but as an excuse to stop answering. The move is slick: he preemptively declares any request for evidence futile because the “people” who want it are supposedly unreachable anyway. That turns the burden of proof into a personality flaw in the audience. If you doubt me, you are the kind of person who will always doubt me. Case closed.

The intent is plainly defensive but also strategic. By positioning research as “a total waste of money,” he recasts what would normally be an investment in credibility as a sucker’s expense. It’s a rhetorical cost-cutting memo: why pay for verification when you can sell certainty? The subtext is that the product’s truth value is negotiable; what matters is managing perception and minimizing exposure to tests that could fail.

There’s also a quiet admission baked into the bravado. People don’t reject “research” in the abstract; they reject bad research, conflicted research, or claims that sound like science fiction. When Chiu says critics would assume he “made it all up,” he reveals he knows the claim is already living in that neighborhood. Instead of bridging the gap with transparent methods, he weaponizes the gap: testimonials become a substitute for proof, and disbelief becomes evidence of closed-mindedness.

In the context of entrepreneurial hype culture, this is a familiar pattern: treat accountability as a trap, frame scrutiny as hostility, and keep the conversation in the soft-focus realm of anecdotes where the seller controls the story.