I don't know who that person or their business is, but the situation is thought-provoking. On one hand, having that sum of money at that age would be amazing.

I don't know who that person or their business is, but the situation is thought-provoking. On one hand, having that sum of money at that age would be amazing. You would have the freedom to spend the entirety of your remaining time doing what you want in comfortable conditions. You would not have to lose your lifeblood working on things that don't interest you or your pride having to grovel for a job and follow orders to make someone else wealthy. You would no longer have to worry about your current society collapsing and taking you along with it, unless it's global chaos in which case you were doomed anyway. On the other hand, the opportunity to work on something you own and identify with while also having a reasonable chance of making it work is also extremely rare. If money is the conduit that allows you to preserve your lifeblood to do what you want, you have tautologically skipped that step if you are already doing just that. That means that the utility calculus they made is not irrational or risky, even if many other people would kill (sometimes literally) for the prospect of getting those sums. It just so happens that they get to choose between not one but two peak-experience scenarios that would be alien and out of reach to most people.