This was a comment to this blog post, I thought it was quite motivating:
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"I sold my company for $75-90 million (I don’t want to be specific) a few years back and I owned a lot more of it than the Mint guys did (I only raised $5 million in funding).
And you know what? I am glad I sold it because, I’m not at all sorry to say, I DID want to make money and lock in my gains—and gains for my investors.
I don’t care if I sold out to a big dumb company and lost the chance to destroy them or whatever. I had more money than anyone at that company I sold to and it DID change my life permanently.
I do whatever I want now and I’m not the least bit bored. I haven’t been bored for one second. I travel the world, have learned two new languages, exercise, learned piano, water sports, hike, snowboard at least 30 full days a year, have 3 homes, go see pro sports games of my favorite teams anytime I want, watch 3-4 movies a week, and read 1-2 books a week.
I spend lots of time with my family. I’ve lived in Mexico, Italy, France, Colorado, Florida all for several months each and loved it.
I worked 12-16 hour days for FIVE years, almost always 6 days a week, and usually a few hours on the seventh day. We built a great product and sold the bloody hell out of it. We had awfully tough times for a few years and I put every cent of my money and investments into it and we had less than $100 in the bank at least 20 times.
I sacrificed everything except family during those years—I got rid of my TV, cable, and stopped doing a lot of things I enjoyed because I was focused on my dream and my goal. I damn well earned every dime I frickin made. And my investors and employees made a lot of dough too.
No apologies or regrets. I made money and cashed out and my life is phenomenal. I’m so grateful and happy I made that choice. I’m not saying my life is better than anyone else’s, I’m just saying it is what I wanted. I don’t care what anyone else does—if they want to run their company for 20 or 30 years, go right ahead. I know that’s not what I wanted. But feel free to do that if it’s what you think you want.
But give me a break with this idea that selling your company and making a lot of dough is a bad thing somehow. For me it sure wasn’t."
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"I sold my company for $75-90 million (I don’t want to be specific) a few years back and I owned a lot more of it than the Mint guys did (I only raised $5 million in funding).
And you know what? I am glad I sold it because, I’m not at all sorry to say, I DID want to make money and lock in my gains—and gains for my investors.
I don’t care if I sold out to a big dumb company and lost the chance to destroy them or whatever. I had more money than anyone at that company I sold to and it DID change my life permanently.
I do whatever I want now and I’m not the least bit bored. I haven’t been bored for one second. I travel the world, have learned two new languages, exercise, learned piano, water sports, hike, snowboard at least 30 full days a year, have 3 homes, go see pro sports games of my favorite teams anytime I want, watch 3-4 movies a week, and read 1-2 books a week.
I spend lots of time with my family. I’ve lived in Mexico, Italy, France, Colorado, Florida all for several months each and loved it.
I worked 12-16 hour days for FIVE years, almost always 6 days a week, and usually a few hours on the seventh day. We built a great product and sold the bloody hell out of it. We had awfully tough times for a few years and I put every cent of my money and investments into it and we had less than $100 in the bank at least 20 times.
I sacrificed everything except family during those years—I got rid of my TV, cable, and stopped doing a lot of things I enjoyed because I was focused on my dream and my goal. I damn well earned every dime I frickin made. And my investors and employees made a lot of dough too.
No apologies or regrets. I made money and cashed out and my life is phenomenal. I’m so grateful and happy I made that choice. I’m not saying my life is better than anyone else’s, I’m just saying it is what I wanted. I don’t care what anyone else does—if they want to run their company for 20 or 30 years, go right ahead. I know that’s not what I wanted. But feel free to do that if it’s what you think you want.
But give me a break with this idea that selling your company and making a lot of dough is a bad thing somehow. For me it sure wasn’t."
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