On: Sacrifice the first 13 years of your life to Googl...

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Most people sacrifice the first 13 years for way less than $2M. This seems like a funny complaint.

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I spent the first 13 years of my adult life drinking too much, dating the wrong women, hanging out with friends and getting married (to a former stripper) and divorced once (since remarried), I had a house built in the burbs of Atlanta at 28, and was a part time fitness instructor, bought too much investment property before 2008 and by the end of those 13 years, I was only making $90K

I would not give up those years for anything - especially not an adTech company.

I stumbled into my first BigTech job at 46 and did this in 2022.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966

I have no regrets.

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Your small town in SW Georgia wouldn’t be Buena Vista by any chance? Would be a small world.

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Albany, GA

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Luxury. Y’all had a mall and a comic book store. That’s the big city.

Funny how Atlanta vacuums up everyone in the south and good to hear there’s life after Atlanta.

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I didn’t find the tone of the article as a negative thing. Contrary, sounds more how to make the most of your “youth” to gain financial independence.