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🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Is being rich as good as people think? In today’s episode, I talk to David Hauser — who sold his company Grasshopper for $200 million, and is an angel investor in Intercom and other companies. We go behind-the-scenes on wealth, if being rich is as great as people think… and how you can be rich, too.
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| 0:00.0 | We sold it at the right time for a significant amount of money that others would not have paid at the time. |
| 0:05.9 | So we de-risked our total like life scenario to have more liquid assets than non-liquid assets. |
| 0:12.4 | I regret not being more involved in something ahead of time to fill that gap. |
| 0:18.0 | What is up you beautiful bastards? It's your boy pancake aka |
| 0:23.4 | Rabbi Can't lose aka in today's episode. I talked to my good friend David |
| 0:27.5 | Houser. David is an entrepreneur who created Grasshopper.com. He ended up selling it for $200 million. It was totally bootstrapped and there was only two partners. |
| 0:38.0 | So if you do the math, you know what that means? |
| 0:40.0 | Yes, David is stinking rich, like crazy rich. |
| 0:44.0 | And this is an episode talking about, |
| 0:46.0 | what's it like to be so rich? |
| 0:47.5 | I wanted to understand if you have $100 million, |
| 0:50.0 | what are the good things in the bat, |
| 0:51.5 | and I want to share it with you today. |
| 0:53.0 | So in this conversation you learn three major things. |
| 0:55.0 | So number one, you'll actually be shocked about how frugal David is, it's shocking. |
| 1:00.0 | Number two, why real estate is overrated to get rich and why David doesn't even do it anymore. |
| 1:04.6 | And number three, for yourself, what are quick ways or slow ways to generate wealth? |
| 1:09.6 | You're going to learn those three things and a bunch of surprises along the way. Enjoy. |
| 1:13.4 | Before we jump into the episode I wanted to highlight that this month is going to be |
| 1:16.8 | Money Month or Personal Finance Month. I wanted to highlight a book that I actually put |
| 1:20.7 | together so in the past few years I've made a little bit of money. |
| 1:23.3 | And I was always wondering what are super rich people doing that regular people like myself don't really know about? |
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