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"Imagine ... seeing a deposit of $10 million - right after you’ve been acquired or sold all your shares. [...] OK, now imagine you’ve done the things on your li

by alex_c 19y ago

"Imagine ... seeing a deposit of $10 million - right after you’ve been acquired or sold all your shares. [...] OK, now imagine you’ve done the things on your list. How do you feel. Any happier? ... I’d be willing to bet that you won’t actually feel much happier than you do now. You might feel nice for about two months, and then you’ll be itching to do something else. Happiness isn’t found in being the next company to sell for $100 million. So that’s the whole point - you can have a small web app business and still enjoy the good life." I don't think I'll ever be able to see eye to eye with the people who put forward this kind of argument. Maybe we're talking about different things, or maybe we just see life differently. Maybe it's a lack of imagination, I don't know. The $100 million, or 10, or even 1, isn't about the number of zeroes in your bank account, it's about freedom. Freedom to scratch my "itch to do something else". With the money, that can be bumming around and travelling, or it can be creating something I enjoy but which is very unlikely to ever pay the rent, or it can be trying to start a second $100 million company, or it can be "a small web app business". Without the money and with a small web app business, it can be... a small web app business. In other words, running a small web app business is all you need to be happy, as long as what you need to be happy is running a small web app business.

nazgulnarsil 19y ago
that kind of comment also shows you just how little people understand the value of a dollar. If people truly appreciated the range of creative potential that 10 million dollars represented they wouldn't be nearly as dismissive about it. bottom line: if you're going to be doing the same exact thing whether you have 10 million or not, just give me the 10 mill. I guarantee I won't be doing the same thing.
- nostrademons 19y ago
  I'd do the same thing I'm doing now whether I have 10 million or not. The difference is that with 10 million, I'd be sure that I could keep doing the same thing, forever. (Or at least until I got bored with it. ;-))

by alex_c 19y ago

nazgulnarsil 19y ago

that kind of comment also shows you just how little people understand the value of a dollar. If people truly appreciated the range of creative potential that 10 million dollars represented they wouldn't be nearly as dismissive about it. bottom line: if you're going to be doing the same exact thing whether you have 10 million or not, just give me the 10 mill. I guarantee I won't be doing the same thing.

nostrademons 19y ago
I'd do the same thing I'm doing now whether I have 10 million or not. The difference is that with 10 million, I'd be sure that I could keep doing the same thing, forever. (Or at least until I got bored with it. ;-))