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0 pointssien12y ago0 comments

Any idea if what you did, i.e. sold your company and then did whatever you want after that is common with people in your position?

Perhaps most people who get a few million do exactly this.

But surely it's weird that people make 10 M and don't just do whatever they want. Honestly, what point does money after that?

People like Gates, Jobs, Brin and Page might be the outliers because they keep going even after obtaining enough wealth for a lifetime.

Or perhaps it's only if you have the drive to make that kind of money that got them going anyway.

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tim33312y ago

I don't think Gates et al are outliers. Most people who make $10m+ from their own efforts do it at least in part because they enjoy working and the vast majority I'd estimate keep on working in some form although they may shift fields such as Gates moving to philanthropy and PG moving from Viaweb to his other stuff. It's more lottery winners who were not so in to their work who quit and then generally run in to a bunch of problems afterwards.

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