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This also meant that he changed his home address to whatever rented accommodation he was using at the time, as it was more efficient for tax purposes (I don’t know the specifics, it’s just what he said).
About a month before he was intending on retiring his wife filed for divorce, claiming abandonment/desertion. As he’d changed his permanent address everything official looked like he’d completely moved out over 2 years previously, which was grounds for this divorce to go through.
She took half his pension pot and, due to him “moving out” got the family home. As a result, he had to go back to work and was a pretty broken man.
A few weeks after the divorce was finalised he won £8 million on the lottery. Normally when that happens people can be quite bitter, but everyone who knew him (except his ex-wife) was over the moon for him.
Experts estimated the collection could be worth around $10 million, with some individual coins potentially fetching nearly $1 million. Imagine stepping outside for a normal walk with your dog and coming back home millions of dollars richer.
Guy I worked with had a son who was a really good salesman. Anyone who worked in sales knows the kind of guy I mean – sales caps were invented for this guy. One day the company he worked for tried to pull some BS and he called their bluff and left.
The guy decided to open up his own business and asked his dad for some startup capital in exchange for a percentage of the company. My coworker didn’t really understand the numbers but he was at the end of his career and had some money saved up (the investment really wasn’t that much relative to his nest egg.) He said he was just willing to give the money because he wanted to support his son and had the ability to at that time.
The company did really well and soon that percentage was worth a lot. Like more than his retirement savings a lot. He enjoys a very fun retirement compared to the modest one he was planning.
I knew someone from HS that worked for a little known video calling company called Zoom. He wasn’t a founder, but he was part of the originally hired team. We all know how much they exploded in value during Covid. Not sure if he’s still with the company, but he was posting pics of his Ferrari and lavish home at the time.
I had a friend who bought $1000 of bitcoin when they were less than $1 because he wanted to buy alpalca wool socks singly because he thought the idea of decentralized currency is cool. He spent like $15 on a few pairs, promptly forgot about the balance, and didn’t login to his wallet for some amount of time then came over to my house asking for advice because when Btc shot up he thought “hey I have some of those”.
They were worth $12m.
I didn’t even know what to do really other than tell him to put it in cold storage while he worked out how to sell them.
He is retired in Malta with his wife and kids. They are very pleasant people.
The woman had gone without a will, and Margaret was her next of kin, leaving her with around £300,000 ($406,030). She paid off her mortgage, invested some of the money, and finally got to do some of the traveling she had dreamed about for years.
I used to contribute to a newspaper in the 1990s and the editor was the guy I’d talk to when sending copy over the modem – because he liked tech.
One day he said, “I won’t be here next week. I’m retiring.”
I said I thought he was too young for that.
He replied, “My wife has inherited a chateau and estates in France so we’re moving there, and I’ll be learning French.”.
Not totally overnight but over about 3 years. Friend in college late 2009 read about bitcoin and built a mining rig that he ran out of his dorm. Had tens of thousands of btc back when it was worth pennies, was convinced it was going to break 1k a coin and that he wasn’t selling until it did. .
A guy I worked with named Pierre had the company he started with a computer under his desk go public. E-Bay.
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