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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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2101 points jamesjyu | 1 comments | 07 Feb 19 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.263s | source
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sixQuarks ◴[07 Feb 19 15:53 UTC] No.19105943[source]▶
Ouch, number 2 employee at Pinterest - a $10 billion company that’s about to go public this year.

He probably would have been worth an easy 100-200 million.

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sahillavingia ◴[07 Feb 19 15:59 UTC] No.19105991[source]▶
I prefer not to do the math.
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crispyporkbites ◴[07 Feb 19 18:24 UTC] No.19107150[source]▶
It's crazy that you care about the money, being in your mid-20s with a company pulling in 60k USD net/month puts you squarely in the pretty much unlimited money category of the world.
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1. jimbokun ◴[07 Feb 19 20:16 UTC] No.19108148[source]▶
"It's crazy that you care about the money..."

Did you read the article?