Former Pretty Ricky member Spectacular Smith is now a student at Harvard Business School and fans across social media are showering him with praise for being “positively influential.”
Smith, 32, posted an Instagram photo of himself wearing a Harvard hoodie and sitting in what appears to be a classroom at the ivy league institution.
One fan wrote under his IG comments: “Such an inspiration. I can only pray I will be able to be greater than I am today… May God continue to guide you on your journey”
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After Pretty Ricky called it quits as a group, Smith continued his success as an entrepreneur. He currently owns and operates Adwizar, a California-based company that “manages and monetizes the accounts of more than 100 actors, musicians and athletes.”
In an interview with Black Enterprise, Spectacular explained how his friend Matty J. inspired his entrepreneurial spirit by suggesting he start monetizing his tweets.
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“He told me I could make some money from tweeting, and I was like, ‘Well that sounds super easy,” he said.
“So what I did was… when he told me I could make money off of tweeting I had like 50,000 followers at the time on Twitter, and I felt like the amount of followers I had, I should double it, so I can make double the amount of money because I’ve always been an entrepreneur so those simple numbers just add up.”
Last year, he told INC. Magazine, “The thing is, if you don’t know social media monetization and someone talks to you about making $20,000 a month, it sounds like blowing smoke. But I come from the music business, where everything is about advances and getting the money up front, so that’s what I did. I gave people $20,000 or more, depending on how big their social media following was. Then they knew I wasn’t blowing smoke–they listened to how I was going to recoup my costs and then make us both money. Word of mouth spread, and business blew up.”
The former Love & Hip Hop Miami star is also the author of the best-selling e-book “Spectacular Love,” in which he shares his thoughts on love, sex and relationships that’s served up “big brother style.”