From Pressure To Progress

The Bestie Initiatives

WSD Capital Management

Based far away from the global financial echo chambers, WSD Capital Management is a value-oriented investment firm that commits people, capital, and fortitude to help address the critical issues facing public companies.

The firm works to identify, invest, and engage in difficult and complex situations with the explicit objective to develop outstanding assets into outstanding companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Website: wsdcapital.com

Warschild

The world has enough talent. Warschild is building a company that prioritizes it. We believe in the power of elevating talent — enough to make it our mission.

Warschild was founded in 2020, just months into the Covid‐19 global pandemic, as a bold venture emerging from the shadows of uncertainty to sculpt a financial fortress by challenging the norms of entrepreneurship and investment through a people-first blueprint.

Website: warschild.com

Warschild Foundation

We all have a responsibility to improve the welfare of humanity, to make a positive impact and protect the environment for future generations. Every little bit counts, every little bit matters. Major transformational change often starts with small, seemingly insignificant acts that later prove to be monumental.

The Warschild Foundation is an organization founded to foster progress in the social, economic and environmental spheres through private capital and by promoting civil society involvement.

Website: warschild.org

Benevolent Hostility

In my 25 years in business, I’ve seen how corruption can derail even the most promising ventures, leaving honest, hard-working people in the dust. Fact is, in a world full of crooks and criminals, the biggest threat to success is not competition, but corruption.

The concept of “benevolent hostility” is based on the biological principle of xenohormesis that explains how low-level stressors can trigger adaptive responses that result in positive changes. This discomfort is particularly relevant in the context of business, where individuals and organizations are constantly facing new challenges and threats that require them to adapt and grow. Benevolent Hostility levels the playing field to create an environment that empowers individuals and organizations to achieve their full potential by forcing people to confront the uncomfortable truths they’d rather ignore.

Website: ertan.me/bestie/

 

A Commitment to Positive Impact

“What differentiates my approach from others is that, from day one, my mission has been to do what’s right rather than what’s popular or politically correct; which, in the long run, is always more important than being the toast of the golf course.”

— Ertan Enginalev