How Much Money Ankur Nagpal Needs to be Happy for Life

Moneywise

Hampton

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.8 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How much money do you need to be happy? Money alone is not going to make you a happy person, but it can sure as hell help you get there. Money can buy you security, time, health, and safety for you and your loved ones, and it can relieve stress when it comes to life's financial pressures. To say that money can't impact your happiness is naive. But what we want to know is, when is enough, enough? If you don't know that number, you can easily slip into the hole of always needing and wanting more, which inevitably takes away from your happiness. At a certain point, you start wasting your time and adding stress to your life in the never-ending pursuit of more. So what is the threshold when it's time to end the chase and simply enjoy the life you've built for yourself? In this episode, Ankur Nagpal shared his number. Ankur Nagpal is in his early thirties with a net worth north of nine figures. He started raking in money in college with his Facebook App business, but his real life-changing moment was when he sold his company Teachable for a quarter billion dollars. Now, he's the founder of fintech company Carry, formerly known as Ocho. Ankur will tell us about the financial decisions he made that contributed to his happiness, the mistakes he made, and he's radically transparent about the numbers while he does so. Sam will also share his own "happiness threshold" number, and we'll also get input from another guy who rakes in over $10 million a year. This is MoneyWise, a podcast where host Sam Parr is joined by high-net-worth guests to explore exclusive insights into personal finance and lifestyle tailored for other high-net-worth people, or those on their way. They'll get radically transparent about the numbers, revealing things like their burn rates, portfolios, and spending habits. Who is Sam Parr? Sam is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of The Hustle, which he sold to HubSpot in 2021. He's also the co-host of one of the world's top podcasts for entrepreneurs, My First Million. Known for his insightful business acumen and candid communication style, Sam Parr continues to be a prominent figure in the world of media and entrepreneurship. Sam's newest and biggest venture yet is Hampton, which he co-founded in 2022. This podcast was made for the Hampton community, a private, highly-vetted, peer membership community for founders and CEOs of fast-growing, tech-enabled startups. Chapters: Who is Ankur Nagpal (2:37) Why we're asking "When is enough, enough?" (4:15) Ankur's first multimillion-dollar venture (6:19) How he built and sold Teachable (7:59) How his life changed after selling Teachable (10:38) Ankur's burn rate after a $40 million check (15:22) Why not working didn't make him happy (16:15) Ankur's cost of living (18:12) Ankur's "Happiness Threshold" number (21:40) Sam's "Happiness Threshold" number and closing thoughts (24:05) This podcast was produced in partnership with Lower Street and distributed by Morning Brew.

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0:00.0	So most of you don't realize this, but when MoneyWise first launch, we released this pilot.
0:04.5	It was with my friend Anker who sold this business for $100 million and he was incredibly transparent about things.
0:09.8	But we hadn't actually decided to make MoneyWise at that point.
0:13.2	This was just a pilot.
0:14.8	And I uploaded it to YouTube and I meant to hit Save His Draft, but I actually published it.
0:20.1	And I even said I didn't mean to publish this in the comments, but no one believed me.
0:25.9	And it sort of went viral within like 10 hours ahead, something like 20,000 views on YouTube.
0:32.1	And people seem to like it.
0:33.0	And that's why we ended up making this show.
0:35.3	However, a lot of you are new.
0:36.9	A lot of you listeners to
0:37.9	MoneyWise are new listeners. And so what I wanted to do was I wanted to redo that Anchor
0:42.9	episode and I wanted to re-release it. So you guys can hear it. So check it out. I think you guys
0:48.8	are going to dig it. Also, I've got a huge announcement. I'm hiring someone to be my co-host of this podcast, MoneyWise.
0:56.1	And eventually, they're going to take it over from me and be the host.
0:59.1	When we started this, I wanted to get my hands dirty and kind of craft the vision and make the first 20 or 30 episodes awesome.
1:05.5	And I think we've done that. We found a pretty good formula. So I want to find someone who can run this and be the host. You'll have a team of
1:10.9	people working with you and you're going to work at Hampton. So if you're interested, go to joinhampton.com,
1:16.2	scroll all the way down to careers and you'll see podcast hosts as a job. And I want you to apply.
1:21.6	At first, it's going to be a freelancing position to make sure that we both like each other and everything like that. And then we'll probably do something full time. So joinhampton.com. Scroll all the way to the bottom. Check out
1:32.1	careers. Might change your life. So check it out and enjoy the episode with Anker.
1:39.3	How much money was wired to you? I think it was somewhere around 40-ish million dollars.
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