Two decades ago, I quite-suddently dropped out of a rural medical school to grow marijuana in the SF East Bay.
Through random medical marijuana introductions, I ended up meeting a co-founder of a Dotcom-era Unicorn — which eventually failed. Through his own alleged financial misunderstandings, he had stupidly kept 90% of his net worth in his Unicorn stock... but still had about a million dollars left-over.
By the time I was working for him, the beautiful Parnassus home (which he then owned, out-right) had been partitioned into several rental units — only slowing his moneydrain.
Very interesting guy, and I had just a few years earlier watched several of my childhood friends not-be-able to attend university (Texas, post-Enron/2001), due to their own family financial issues.
I'm 40, and have experienced FOUR "once in a lifetime financial crisises..." my take-away, even at my young age, is to diversify [particularly into gold, bitcoin, land].
Through random medical marijuana introductions, I ended up meeting a co-founder of a Dotcom-era Unicorn — which eventually failed. Through his own alleged financial misunderstandings, he had stupidly kept 90% of his net worth in his Unicorn stock... but still had about a million dollars left-over.
By the time I was working for him, the beautiful Parnassus home (which he then owned, out-right) had been partitioned into several rental units — only slowing his moneydrain.
Very interesting guy, and I had just a few years earlier watched several of my childhood friends not-be-able to attend university (Texas, post-Enron/2001), due to their own family financial issues.
I'm 40, and have experienced FOUR "once in a lifetime financial crisises..." my take-away, even at my young age, is to diversify [particularly into gold, bitcoin, land].