<story><title>I regret selling my startup</title><url>https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/i-regret-selling-my-startup/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;What you don&amp;#x27;t know is that when you have a pile of money, you turn into a dragon. The goal becomes to sit on the pile of money and make sure it doesn&amp;#x27;t get smaller, and ideally grows on its own.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this universal?&lt;p&gt;If I had at least a several-million post-tax windfall, I think I&amp;#x27;d buy a nice home and maybe a little beach house, put the rest in index funds, and spend my time being healthy, and building particular open source software and hardware.&lt;p&gt;(Building things without résumé keywords being a consideration; it&amp;#x27;s almost unimaginable, now.)</text></comment>
<story><title>I regret selling my startup</title><url>https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/i-regret-selling-my-startup/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>When I see or hear advice, I try to understand what the person&amp;#x27;s context was. Here, I feel like I don&amp;#x27;t know enough about the founder&amp;#x27;s situation to know whether any of this would be relevant to me. For example, does he have a family? How old is he? Roughly how much money did he sell for? How much profit was the business generating beforehand, and what was its trajectory?&lt;p&gt;Without knowing things like this, I can&amp;#x27;t really tell if his advice would be relevant at all for me.</text></comment>