Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

"I'm fabulously rich" was not actually a good respond to this tweet, friendhttps://twitter.com/dhh/status/1210435026539683840 …

It's really something to watch someone project "I ought to be a billionaire" onto a tweet that says no such thing, and then respond by saying essentially that there are more important things when you're this filthy fucking rich. True man of the people, this one

Is there any other way to interpret "your company could've been worth $12b" other than "you ought to be a billionaire?" Unless there is some massive context I'm missing, or a history between these guys that I'm unaware of, this actually really comes off as Austen being a dick.

If you think the important thing about building a $12B company is that you can butcher the cow & live the billionaire lifestyle, you're not going to build a $12B company. Unsurprisingly, here you, I and DHH are. If you're not following, feel free to just consider me another dick.

Dunno how many times I have to shout "owning a company is not the same thing as being flush with cash!" for people to realize that this is actually true, and that if they got that they would actually start behaving like they believe themselves when they say money isn't everything

One more time for the people in the back: being interesting and successful will often make you rich, but being rich does not make you successful or interesting. Rich people who tell you it's not important to be rich are playing off the assumption that you're too stupid to tell.