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About 100 million (startup exit, not to flex, just answering the question). Why do you ask?
by cercatrova 6y ago
About 100 million (startup exit, not to flex, just answering the question). Why do you ask?
- endriju 6y agoJust curious - do you invest in startups?
- cercatrova 6y agoYeah it's enjoyable, there's really no need for anyone to have this much money.
- omosubi 6y agowell done - how do you spend your time now?
- cercatrova 6y agoBuilding new stuff, learning a lot, arguing on HN, honestly the same as before haha
- lalwanivikas 6y agoWhat are you learning if I may ask? And building?
- satvikpendem 6y agoThere is the trifecta of development, design, and business. Usually someone is only good at one of those things. I want to see what it's like to be good at all 3, and see if I can build a very valuable company as a single founder/employee, by leveraging automation as much as possible. Even if I can't, I'm sure I'll find a bunch of problems for which I can create a new startup to solve. Not OP but just wanted to answer haha
- cercatrova 6y agoLearning some new programming languages like Rust, might build some tools for myself, we'll see though.
- giantg2 6y agoI hate you, and I hate myself even more.
- cercatrova 6y agoBasically luck, survivorship bias. See Morgan Housel's Psychology of Money book, and this passage about luck and risk in it: https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-money/ https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-mon...
- giantg2 6y agoNow if only the guy with the $100 million had enough survivor's guilt to give me $1 million lol Edit: looks like my joke failed
- cercatrova 6y agoHaha well are you're working on anything interesting?
- giantg2 6y agoNope. I'm just a corporate peon.
- anotheryou 6y agoHa, you sparked some thought in me, going a bit off-topic here though :) I'd love to see some non-profit R+D department for social media. And I wonder what's the closest thing to that existing right now. On the science side there are dry studies, either relatively tiny or looking at what is there. On the practical side there are technical people fighting for privacy, decentralization and against censorship, but with little feel or innovation beyond that. No one does proper product research. I wrote a concept for a curation tool in my studies, but it didn't really fit the program and I wonder where it could fit after all. Now I'm just earning money as a product manager and can't afford not to.
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