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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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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That's inexpensive enough in that most folks on tech salaries can enjoy the benefit before they make it big. One of the better things I ever did for my relationship.
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We hire out cleaning. It’s one of the best decisions we’ve ever made.
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