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08-22-2007, 01:25 AM
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Re: Awesome lives
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08-22-2007, 03:04 AM
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Re: Awesome lives
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[ QUOTE ] I know a guy who is basically anonymous but has spent his adult life starting companies. He's past 70 now and he looks mid 50s and is working at a new company he started 5 years ago. He's been in the center of at least 3 financial revolutions in the last 40 years and he's basically going to keep going at full speed until the day he drops dead. That sounds like just about the coolest thing I can imagine. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know what this says about me, but this doesn't even sound that interesting to me. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah maybe I am missing something... The looking young thing is sweet, as well as being critical in the past 3 financial revolutions (though it's unclear how he wouldn't at least be very well known in his industry, although easy to see how he's not like Ellison-level fame or something)... but starting company after company is just, that sounds exhausting to me. It is incredibly difficult to do this and a ridiculous amount of work, from what I've seen. I've met a good number of serial entrepreneurs and while I admire their drive I don't feel like this is a well-rounded or incredibly meaningful life. I'm not sure how satisfying that 3rd or 4th exit would be to me... -Al Edit - oh actually it'd be interesting to hear someone like Diablo's take on this (fits the mold of a serial entrepreneur).
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#55
08-22-2007, 10:14 AM
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Re: Awesome lives
Read this guy's biography, very interesting life!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer
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#57
08-22-2007, 10:46 AM
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Re: Awesome lives
Bart Giamatti was a leading scholar of Renaissance literature, the President of Yale, the MLB commissioner who kicked Pete Rose out of baseball, and his kids are all Hollywood actors. He died young, but he did some pretty cool stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Giamatti
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#58
08-22-2007, 11:56 AM
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larry flint [/ QUOTE ] No way I'd trade my own life for his. Substance abuse, porn, and a wheelchair don't add up to an awesome life. Hef seems not only to have enjoyed life a lot more, but meant far more to the sexual revolution.
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#59
08-22-2007, 03:07 PM
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Re: Awesome lives
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I know a guy who is basically anonymous but has spent his adult life starting companies. He's past 70 now and he looks mid 50s and is working at a new company he started 5 years ago. He's been in the center of at least 3 financial revolutions in the last 40 years and he's basically going to keep going at full speed until the day he drops dead. That sounds like just about the coolest thing I can imagine. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know what this says about me, but this doesn't even sound that interesting to me. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah maybe I am missing something... The looking young thing is sweet, as well as being critical in the past 3 financial revolutions (though it's unclear how he wouldn't at least be very well known in his industry, although easy to see how he's not like Ellison-level fame or something)... but starting company after company is just, that sounds exhausting to me. It is incredibly difficult to do this and a ridiculous amount of work, from what I've seen. I've met a good number of serial entrepreneurs and while I admire their drive I don't feel like this is a well-rounded or incredibly meaningful life. I'm not sure how satisfying that 3rd or 4th exit would be to me... -Al Edit - oh actually it'd be interesting to hear someone like Diablo's take on this (fits the mold of a serial entrepreneur). [/ QUOTE ] The point isn't whether you or Paluka would want to create financial startups or whatever. It's that he loves it so that's what he does and his age hasn't slowed him down at all. This is not to suggest that this is all he does, which is hardly the case. Also, he's very well known in finance but that still leaves him largely anonymous.
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