Parisian Family Office, Founder & CEO. Started Wall Street, '82. Drexel Burnham alum in LaJolla, CA. Founded Native American Advisors, Chippewa Partners. '95. Chippewa. Conservative. Raised on reservations. Was NYSE/FINRA arbitrator. Trading O'Neil/CANSLIM methodology at PAMELOT, TN farm, GHOST RANCH, MT, on the Yellowstone River, or CASA TULE', their winter camp in Los Cabos, Mexico. Will always be, a relentless optimist with radical gratitude.

Monday, February 09, 2026

We all started somewhere, what's your excuse?

"I arrived in Montreal at 17 by myself with $2,000. No support, no contacts, nothing.  Father said I’d fail & be back in 3 months."

Elon Musk


The weekend before I left for San Diego, California in January, 1979, my cousin told me I would be back in Minnesota in a couple months when I ran out of money.  I knew one person, my friend from law school.  It's 2026, I'm still gone from Minnesota.

Dean Parisian 

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