Apparently you think you are average at everything, but it looks like at least once you were good at picking a successful tech company. If this sounds right to

Apparently you think you are average at everything, but it looks like at least once you were good at picking a successful tech company. If this sounds right to you, why not do it again? I would set the money aside (invest it like others said in this thread) and join another company which looks like the one that just exited, but at the time you joined it. You should be valuable to them, especially since you have experience with hyper growth now. If it works, you hit the jackpot twice, and you have learned that maybe you have a knack for this. If it doesn't, you didn't lose much, and you have $8M so does it really matter? The only caveat is: avoid telling people at the new company how rich you are, and under no circumstance let them have you invest unreasonable amounts of money in them.