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"[...] where in the world you want to live and which car matches your personality best?" I'm not sure if you're kidding or not. The only real benefit I can see
by chris_l 20y ago
"[...] where in the world you want to live and which car matches your personality best?"
I'm not sure if you're kidding or not. The only real benefit I can see on top of a merely above-average-income western lifestyle is that you don't need a job. Which of course can make a huge difference, as I learnt from my last employer.
But I imagine that selling a company for $xx m wouldn't change things for the positive apart from that. Maybe most people who got rich from startups get disillusioned and are embarrassed to speak of it? (I don't think this is the case with the YC founders though...)
- staunch 20y ago"The only real benefit I can see on top of a merely above-average-income western lifestyle is that you don't need a job." How about the security of knowing that you're able to provide a safety net for your loved ones in an emergency? Or the ability to self-fund your own projects without having to settle? I'm not saying being rich makes you happy or that it doesn't have its own set of problems -- just that it can provide the freedom of choice and financial security to allow you to worry about the truly big challenges in life. Spending 75%+ of your waking hours working just to put food on the table is pretty boring, even cavemen had this much.