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I worked for a guy a decade ago who spent 8-10 years building a company to sell it for $300-400 million and he hasn't worked a day since. Owns a 30k acre ranch
by swozey 3y ago
I worked for a guy a decade ago who spent 8-10 years building a company to sell it for $300-400 million and he hasn't worked a day since. Owns a 30k acre ranch that a bunch of friends/family live on. Learjets. Villas in the islands, things like that. I can't think of one thing he hasn't done or is limited financially in doing. Last time I saw him he had a $120k watch on, some type of Hublot big bang.
And Pichai gets that yearly...
Here, check out the type of trash he spends his money on now. https://www.drivetanks.com/ https://www.drivetanks.com/ Absolute waste to society.
- jvmfjvfjvf 3y agoWhy is that trash? I would love to drive and shoot a real tank as a civilian.
- Quarrelsome 3y agocan we argue carbon footprint?
- jvmfjvfjvf 3y agoA tank is 1 mpg. I am guessing they are not driving more than 1 or 2 miles on an excursion. This is hardly harmful to the environment compared to other entertainment options.
- DropInIn 3y agoA quick Google shows 0.6 mpg.... Imma call for a citation from ya
- amelius 3y agoAt least they are not launching space rockets.
- swozey 3y agoHis ranch is on the MX/TX border and he owns domains (to resell) such as roaches.com, illegal.com, molest.com, etc. Take with those what you will of the sort of person he is. That's just the few I remember otoh. He has hundreds.
- whatshisface 3y agoOne of those is not like the others (it's roaches.com).
- swozey 3y agoEither I'm missing a joke or you need to travel more. Calling mexican immigrants roaches is a thing.
- toomanyrichies 3y agoMy assumption was that it referred to this [1], but then I’m not a racist POS so maybe I’m out of the loop. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roach_(smoking) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roach_(smoking)
- swozey 3y agoYeah that's definitely not the situation here unfortunately.
- durumu 3y agoNever heard that before either, but personally, I would prefer not to travel to wherever immigrants are called roaches.
- _a9 3y agoI haven't heard that word being used in years living around there and also being hispanic. To me it just looks like parent is cherry-picking some domains to try and put words in their mouth. If the person owns roaches.com out of hundreds of domains then you're going to try to make it racist so the owner looks racist? I never understood why trying to make innocent things racist isn't considered racist itself.
- paulryanrogers 3y ago- Ecological impact - finances that could feed/house/treat people - reinforces militant/gun culture - wear on roads
- roenxi 3y agoWhile we're on it, can we get some negative energy for holidays in general? It bugs me that most people have no savings and then we have people just swanning around burning resources for fun. The waste of drawing hard-working people into the tourism sector when they could be working on improving their own communities directly is just appalling. Let alone the environmental damage caused by the travel and the lost productivity from people literally just having fun. Am I being sarcastic? Not even I am sure. The arguments are truthful. But the fairest way to organise things is that people who made a big economic contribution (represented by money) should be allowed to waste a similar-magnitude-but-smaller amount of resources. That is, ironically, the path to prosperity.
- swozey 3y agoDid you see the backlash the Kardashians got over COVID and flying all their friends to private islands? It was pretty entertaining.
- bin_bash 3y agothat tank thing isn't a great example, even blue collar folk could pretty easily afford some of them. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than a Disneyland hotel!
- swozey 3y agoIt's on a $50million dollar ranch, dude. Where are you shooting your new blue collar tank? Your backyard?
- jjtheblunt 3y agowhat was this company he sold for so much?
- swozey 3y agoA webhost that was encroaching on godaddy popularity back then (nowhere near that now)
- jjtheblunt 3y agoThanks
- bratao 3y agoHostGator
- swozey 3y agoThat's incredibly impolite but I don't really care. In the future there might be reasons people don't directly name call something that should be a huge hint for you to not do it yourself to them. You aren't swooping in like a white knight answering some searing question, you're potentially throwing someone under the bus, CTO guy. You should know better. You literally added it after I posted my own response. I hope you're proud answering the $10mil question when I clearly wasn't going to.
- Forgotthepass8 3y agoWhy are you afraid to name companies?
- swozey 3y agoYou literally just read my previous comment and went "hmm, lets ask him to expound?" My god, some people.
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- Fatnino 3y agoThere really needs to be an upper limit on how much wealth a person is allowed to amass. Half a billion seems fair. After that the tax bracket needs to be taxed at 100%
- firecall 3y agoNo, we need to fix the mechanisms that have allowed so much wealth to accrued by individuals. Companies need to be taxed correctly. They need to give back to the societies that built the social structures that allowed them to be created and thrive.
- mathverse 3y agoI would somehow tax inactive capital. Capital that is not directly invested in a company or pays for employees. Everything laying around or on the stock market should be heavily taxed.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoThat doesn't change the ownership problem. This solution could still allow for a a handful of people to own everything because they would be invested in, and therefore have ownership of, all of the companies.
- satvikpendem 3y agoThe stock market is for directly investing in companies...
- Aerbil313 3y agoIslam bans stock markets and interest (though not all current so-called muslim countries) and every person who is rich (who have more than 87 grams of gold worth of things) is obliged to donate %2.5 of their total wealth to the poor every year. In Muslim countries, the state collects and distributes this, so it's effectively a tax. Necessities of life (shelter etc.) are excluded from total value calculation. Muslim countries traditionally took away land of people who didn't utilize it for 3 consecutive years, though idk whether this is rooted in the religion itself.
- refurb 3y agoDrive a tank? That's absolutely awesome
- ljlolel 3y agoWow, the address of that Tank website is Uvalde Texas where that horrendous shooting happened
- swozey 3y agoYeah it's Uvalde. Uvalde is a very weird place compared to most USA town/cities. The people who live IN Uvalde proper are mostly hispanic and bracing the poverty level and work on the ranches or schools of people with tens/hundreds of millions who own 10-50k acre ranches out there and are just generally worth mega millions.
- geraldhh 3y agocan you divulge any info on the company in question?
- swozey 3y agoI mean what info are you looking for? I don't want to be associated with this company at all. I don't even have it on my resume, it's embarassing. I'm also not going to put myself into a situation where I've potentially got a guy worth $300+ million after me.