I love startups and entrepreneurship. My obsession started when I was reselling Nerds candy in Taipei, purchased from the U.S. commissary store. To recognize and exploit a pricing arbitrage as a nine-year-old felt like winning the lottery every time a new batch arrived. In 1998, a year before graduating from William & Mary, I was […]
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Here is a question worth sitting with: which is actually harder to achieve, a top 1% income or a top 1% net worth? Most people assume income. The number sounds impossibly high, the competition sounds brutal, and the lifestyle of someone earning that kind of money seems reserved for a different species entirely. But after
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The decade-long advice to “learn to code” is losing its edge. With tools like Claude Code handling the heavy lifting, a basic three-month online course may be all anyone needs to build what they can imagine. The more important skill is investing. If you learn to invest, you can build lasting wealth and bypass the gatekeepers
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Growing up, my dad would grab a quick breakfast with us before vanishing into the workforce. He’d resurface after 6pm, visibly depleted. The highlight reel of my childhood memories: throwing a ball around the backyard, some genuinely fantastic family dinners out, and the times he watched me lose tennis matches and declare, “you’re just not good
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The S&P 500 is up roughly 100% over the past three and a half years. At its historical average annual return of about 10%, you’d expect it to be up closer to 40% over that same stretch. That’s an “excess gain” of 60%. I view this excess like free money you find on the street
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After the final day of swimming and tennis at the sports club we’re dropping, I took my kids to an open house in San Francisco. My wife was on a mom’s trip to Napa and I wanted to keep introducing my children to real estate, my favorite asset class. Maybe they might take a professional
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If you’re one of the 8,000 Meta employees getting laid off in May, the difference between a good and great outcome could be worth $50,000 or more. The main reason for the layoffs the company mentioned is to offset their massive AI CAPEX. I’ve spent 14 years helping people negotiate severance packages, including engineering my
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Earlier this year, I decided to give up cable to simplify my life and save $120 a month. I don’t watch much TV, and when I do, it’s sports. But with so little time, I watch the condensed 10-minute highlights on YouTube for free. Around the same time, I decided not to renew my Bay
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There are a lot of things wealth is good for, but one of the most underrated benefits is being able to buy peace and quiet. As I was sitting in the hot tub with my two children at Everline Resort in Lake Tahoe, I couldn’t help but feel a little frazzled by all the noise.
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For those who work in AI, let me share a cautionary tale based on history. You may be getting incredibly rich right now, but there’s little point in being rich if your safety is constantly at risk. Back in 2008, I was working in finance at Credit Suisse Group in San Francisco. There were constant
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