Con-tri
FUTURE LOOP

Growth shouldn't stop
with the people who grew it.

I'm Makoto Ishida. For 14 years I sold financial products at SMBC Nikko Securities, one of Japan's major securities firms, and I was ranked number one in national sales again and again.

I have been diagnosed with a brain tumor, and I have also had a stroke. I feel, physically, that my time is not unlimited. So I am using it to build one thing for my son's generation: Future Loop.

Makoto Ishida, founder of Con-tri

What Future Loop is

A small slice of every investment gain flows automatically to young people's education. Not the principal. Only a small part of what has grown.

The money already exists. What's missing is a channel that lets a little of it flow forward, without anyone having to be a saint.

The idea in 15 slides

Read from top to bottom.

  1. Future Loop. Growing money just to grow it is boring. Keep building wealth, and one day you realize you've been investing in the future, too. We want to make that the norm.
  2. Many people are building wealth. But few stories go beyond the wealth they've grown. Future Loop doesn't reject growing money. It simply creates a tributary that sends a small part of the gains toward the future.
  3. People aren't saints. And that's fine. To be recognized, to have fun, to gain, to be useful, to be thanked. Future Loop doesn't reject human desires. It points them toward the future.
  4. By flowing, money moves society and creates even more value. Investment, companies, jobs, income, spending, reinvestment. Knowledge, gratitude and connections work the same way. Future Loop is a system that creates a tributary to the future.
  5. It's not a lack of money. Japan holds enormous assets. The problem is that it doesn't flow. Most initiatives try to raise new money. Future Loop adds a small tributary to a river that already flows.
  6. Building wealth creates profits, and part of them flows to education, healthcare, startup support, child support and research support. Making results visible (thank-you videos, activity reports, growth stories) brings fun and a real sense of impact, which keeps people going.
  7. With donations or support alone, it doesn't last, and you can't see the results, the thanks or the change. With Future Loop, you see the results, the thanks, the story and how you yourself change. Fun, a real sense of impact, and a story keep people going naturally.
  8. Future Loop isn't for people who want to do social good. It's for someone who says: I keep building wealth, but lately I've been thinking that growing money just to grow it is boring. This person is our first customer.
  9. Not a culture of donating. Not a culture of social good either. A culture that doesn't stop at growing money. You invest, and one day you realize you've been investing in the future, too. A world where that's the norm.
  10. Start small. Start with 3 people. 3 customers, 10, then 100. At each stage, Future Loop will change a lot. The right answer isn't something you build. It's something we find together.
  11. Three forces. The default effect: build it into the system and people join naturally. The feedback effect: seeing results and thanks reinforces action. The identity effect: when you think 'this is who I am,' action becomes a habit.
  12. Make 'thank you' visible, and it moves hearts even more than the flow of money. Gratitude keeps support from being one-time and helps create future supporters.
  13. The main current (capital markets) is a large flow of money that supports investors, companies and the economy. A tributary (Future Loop) is a small flow that nurtures the possibilities of the future. We don't change the main current. We nourish the future by creating a tributary.
  14. You build wealth, and one day you realize you've been investing in the future, too. A society where that's the norm. Children's possibilities grow, research and startups keep emerging, communities and society gain energy, and supporters, too, live richer lives.
  15. We don't change the main current. With a tributary, we can change the future. Future Loop is a project for a life that doesn't stop at growing money. Why not start building a tributary to the future with us, today?

Why me

I spent years on the selling side, where the people who knew the least often paid the highest fees. I left that world, and now I run Con-tri, a financial advisory practice that sells no products at all.

What I'm looking for

To be honest: I'm looking for the funding to build Future Loop quickly, and for someone to lead it.

If you invest, I would like you to take the helm as its CEO. I want to find the right person to entrust this to, while I still have the time.

Free first consultation

I don't speak English, so consultations in English are held in writing, by email or message. The first consultation is free. Send your question through the contact form or by email, and I will reply in writing. Con-tri sells no products.

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Let's change the planet.

If this resonates with you, even a five-minute conversation would mean a lot. I read every message myself.

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