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mythrwy · 2021-06-10 15:25:31+00:00

On the upside look at how much money you'd be making now as opposed to in the past!

theLiminator | karma | avg karma · | 2023-06-17 03:00:18

You'd still make a ridiculous amount of money before that happened.

emteycz | karma 1565 | avg karma 0.67 · | 2022-05-03 10:17:46

Well. I'm making much more money without any of the stress, and for that I lost my 0.0001% chance of striking it big - great deal.

But I'd never change a thing in my past - I can make so much money now only thanks to that experience.

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IpV8 | karma 380 | avg karma 2.21 · | 2018-07-11 15:13:03+00:00

15% more than what I'm making now.

NotYourLawyer | karma 2967 | avg karma 2.68 · | 2022-12-13 11:36:57

And you probably would have cashed out at a 10x multiple or whatever, so it’s not like you’d be a zillionaire today anyway.

bigbillheck | karma 1619 | avg karma 1.04 · | 2023-03-25 17:58:09

You went from '200k a year' to '200k over five years'.

Fauntleroy | karma 874 | avg karma 2.4 · | 2024-04-18 16:29:14

Yeah I'm really wondering what OP's income is like now

cwkoss | karma 10969 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2019-11-05 21:06:51

Well, in hindsight, $18k would have been a great time to get out.

throw9away6 | karma 435 | avg karma 0.94 · | 2023-10-02 13:27:57

If you had negative networth you came out ahead

idlewords | karma 28364 | avg karma 6.34 · | 2016-05-05 02:37:03+00:00

I anticipated this outcome by becoming profitable eight years ago.

But I still want my $20K.

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ErikAugust | karma 3462 | avg karma 3.81 · | 2020-12-30 03:17:01+00:00

Let me guess: You wouldn’t have ended up making a million dollars a year.

randomopining | karma 367 | avg karma 0.4 · | 2021-08-31 15:42:07

100% the only way this would've paid out is if you stored them and truly forgot them.

If I did this back then, I would've sold in 2012/2013 for like $10 and made a couple hundred/thousand in college and thought I was rich.

Then now I'd prob be neurotically depressed thinking about how I could've had hundreds of mil lol.

It's a blessing dude.

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fiatjaf | karma 3878 | avg karma 0.9 · | 2019-02-12 20:29:01

Wow, how much I'm paying and how little I could have been!

recursive | karma 9788 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2018-08-13 14:08:23

That's assuming you had all the money at the beginning of the year.

calebporzio | karma 666 | avg karma 41.62 · | 2022-04-20 17:58:41

I make more money than I did when I wrote the article ;)

icedchai | karma 8478 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2020-03-19 17:23:42

Smart guy. I'd be about 30% richer today if I did the same.

gknoy | karma 3726 | avg karma 2.22 · | 2014-02-04 00:01:11

Reading things like this make me wish that 15-years-ago-me had thought about that, and been making that kind of money.

sithadmin | karma 3352 | avg karma 3.89 · | 2018-05-01 15:17:10

There were far worse ways that I could have kept myself afloat, income-wise. I'm pretty okay with this one, thanks.

Yetanfou | karma 2927 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2019-02-27 08:26:59+00:00

Even better, it would have been possible to avoid that spill with that money and you'd probably have enough left over for a healthy profit afterwards.

frockington1 | karma 60 | avg karma 0.12 · | 2020-05-18 15:22:53+00:00

My taxes are lower and I've made a considerable amount of money in the markets. Other than that not much has changed, I'm much better off than I was 4 years ago