There’s an interesting thread on HN on what to do in the event an exit results in a life changing amount of money. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18600220 … My general recommendation would be “Avoid major changes to your life in the short term.”
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You do not straight line compare to a venture fund; you do not have the $92 million in more prosaic assets the LPs have to afford an $8 million venture fund.
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Get an accountant if you didn’t already have one. Get a lawyer if you didn’t already have one. Skip the investment advisor; there’s a reasonable case for doing literally nothing more interesting than a money market fund for a year while putting your attention on rest of life.
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Stay healthy. Make sure your relationships with your immediate family stay healthy. Do good work on interesting projects. Continue the parts of your life pre-money which you enjoy. Make note of the problems you have which are solvable with money... in the fullness of time.
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(As a function of having this conversation with a number of people, the amusing commonality among geeks is that they strongly anti-enjoy cleaning and that ~never cleaning again and not sweating the minor cost of that is disproportionately high utility.)
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After you’re ready to work on straightforward math problems: read a handful of books, mostly to give you permission to do the prudent thing, which is parking the supermajority of the money in a boring portfolio of low-cost index funds.
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You probably do not need a financial advisor, who sell three goods: salesmanship, straightforward math, and therapy. You can math. Salesmanship of financial products destroys value. Therapy is cheaper by the hour than it is paying a percentage of your net worth every year.
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Boring and straightforward problems dealt with, you then get to deal with the messy, rewarding, still quite complicated business of figuring out life.
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