Unbelievable Fortunes: 74 True Stories of Ordinary People Striking Life-Changing Riches Overnight
The father of a guy i went to university with invented the space to put an ad on the gas pump handle. Got the company valued at 300 million usd and sold it. The value of course tanked some time later.
I have some very smart software and finance friends who teamed up on a small fintech venture earlier this year on a whim. They’ve made $10M since March.
Went to high school with a guy who saved actress Brook Shields from drowning. He received a huge award from her Hollywood agent firm. He blew a huge chunk of it by hiring Van Halen to play at his birthday party.
Anyone who bought a s****y 1500 sq ft tract house in Silicon Valley in the 90s or earlier for less than $200k.
A co worker was passing around asking if we wanted to buy a lottery ticket together. Had to pitch in 5$. She didn’t look very trustworthy. The type of face you can’t trust with a 5$. So no one did. And guess what …. She won… a million dollar.
She stopped coming to work. There was a joke going around the she won the money and she left the country.
Left it at that…. No one knew what happened. Just that she quit.
Few years later someone found her on Instagram and we figured out that’s exactly what happen. She seem happy. Plenty of Botox and tan for some reason.
I regret not putting in that 5$ 🤬.
I worked for a big company that acquired a startup software business in a cash deal. The business had struggled in its early days, so their lawn care guy took payment in stock options. We had to find him to give him a check for a life-changing amount of money.
Guy sold an app he made in college for something like $200k. He yolo’d half of it into crypto. He’s now worth something like $30m.
Not overnight. But I know a person who got an entry level job with a now major global company in the late 90s. I think their base pay was under $40k a year (if I recall correctly)… But, back in that era they received stock grants with their yearly bonus. They, at the advice of a friend, just ignored these small grants and continued to grind for some 20 years. Over that time the options split many times as the company grew exponentially. They now live in a multi million home and have a solid retirement on the horizon.
A dude I used to know went all-in during the Gamestop/AMC/Doge Coin “meme stock” craze. He put absolutely all of the money he had saved up for college tuition into it. I think he did something with options trading
He retired at the ripe old age of 18 and bought a very expensive lakefront house and a bunch of luxury cars. I haven’t been on Instagram in years, but I’d imagine he’s still posting pictures from his multi-month vacations to Europe and of McLarens.
I won’t say overnight, but really freaking fast.
A cousin of mine started a craft beer/yeast company as a passion project with a buddy of his from college. Originally, my cousin went to be a patent lawyer, but ended up hating it. Got into the craft beer game, pedestrian beginnings- then the company exploded in the late 2010s, took a very brief dive at the start of COVID, and then exploded in growth in late 2020 and 2021.
My cousin is very smart and saw that the writing was on the wall in how aggressively the alcohol market was regressing, especially in the craft beer realm, and he sold the company at peak valuation and made millions.
Story time:
This client comes in to get a loan to buy a new home. He has a house that was being bought by the airport because it was at the end of the runway and they wanted to lengthen.
House was only worth 150k but they were offering 250k to make it fast. He only owes 50k
I asked him if he’s married for paperwork reasons and he says ‘sorta.’ Is she on title? No.
Wife left him for another guy, but he never got around to filing for divorce and neither did she.
I tell him he needs to go file immediately before she finds out about this $200k windfall.
He calls her, says he want to divorce, tells her why, and she files first and claims half. Her lawyer puts claim on home as marital property and it gets tied up. Deal to sell stalls until court settles ownership.
He can’t move out of the house till divorce is finished. They get agree to split everything and a certain way and set a court date.
His STBX celebrates by getting a tummy tuck and b**b job. D**s. Divorce never settled. She never updated paperwork.
He gets her life insurance, her 401k, her work provided survivor benefits, bank accounts, everything.
Court dismisses case. He is to go complete the sell the next week. A tree falls through the home and destroys it.
He gets the insurance check. Asks the buyer representative if they need him to fix it. They say no. Just complete the deal because the whole mess has taken so long it’s the last thing needed before they can start.
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