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If you have $200 million in the bank, why do you need any further C-level position?

Hell, give me $20 million and I'll take that risk.




By the time you're that rich money & wealth is just a scoresheet, not a means to an end.

Competitive, successful people like winning more than they like money, otherwise people like Larry Ellison wouldn't spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the Americas cup.


> By the time you're that rich money & wealth is just a scoresheet, not a means to an end.

Yo'ure no doubt right, but when a majority of society is told to accept that money is "food, shelter, and a decent existence" to most people, and "points in a senseless ego game" to a few, things have gone badly off the rails. Those differences in perspective tend to be resolved violently and badly.


$2 million


You would be a better CEO than me off the bat. You just saved the company $198 million.




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