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Re: Ask HN: Founders who sold their company, what do you do?

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Post by zachlatta » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 1:00 PM UTC

justanon1234wh wrote: post #62

I'll do a throwaway for this. Company had an exit that was about $120m personally for me about 3 years ago. It was a hard slog of about 14 years during which time me and my cofounders got sick of each other, most relationships that I came in with blew up and so on. It is so very strange to not work. First off, everyone all the time is lightly nagging you to work. I don't want to work! I already did that. Surprisingly…

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Re: Ask HN: Founders who sold their company, what do you do?

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Post by lazyjones » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 4:17 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #33

lazyjones wrote: post #19

Solo founder (with VC), sold after 15 years (last 13 highly profitable). Good question. Trying to invest carefully, enjoy life and undo the damage entrepreneurship did to my friendships, hobbies... No 40+ hours/week jobs any more, thank you.

How do you "Undo" the damage? Really interested in that part. You dont have to be an entrepreneur to be super busy. Some part of the world expect you to work at at least 80 hours a week. So i guess this is good for everyone to know. *As you grew older, you came to realise how little money actually means.

> How do you "Undo" the damage? Really interested in that part.

Lost time is lost, but you can get in touch with old friends, apologise to people you ignored because you were busy, find new hobbies, travel... At least that's what I'm trying to do. I also lost 2 close family members during that time and deeply regret not having spent more time with them, but that's just how it is.

> As you grew older, you came to realise how little money actually means.

I'd still disagree, it means a lot and makes life so much easier. It's just something you tend to take for granted when you have it and other things you don't naturally become more important.

Re: Ask HN: Founders who sold their company, what do you do?

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Post by badpun » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 9:17 PM UTC

corbett3000 wrote: post #87

badpun wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Going on extreme/esoteric retreats: like climbing a snowy mountain this winter in Poland in just a bathing suit. I'm trying to push myself physically in ways I've never done before. I don't know how tall or remote was this mountain, but a guy I know nearly died (well, technically he was dead for a bit while they reanimated him on the rescue helicopter) running in Polish mountains last winter without a proper clothi…

Wow. Um...what was his medical condition?

It's hard to tell what really happened, as he has no recollection of the time before the accident. The rescue party, alarmed by his wife, found him laying on the trail, unconscious and in severe hypothermia. The thing is, while he was running in his relatively light running clothes (the whole run was supposed to take only 40 minutes), the weather suddently turned for the worse, with temperature drop and snow fall. Hard to tell if he lost consciousness just because of the cold or if something else was also a factor.