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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by mindcrime on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:51PM (#19106878)
at the end of that time there are two metrics, the number of people you helped and the amount of wealth you amassed and held on to

I don't disagree with your overall point, but I do wonder why those should be the only two metrics to consider. IMO, the range of metrics is nearly infinite and highly subjective.

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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by zild3d on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:31PM (#19107754)
Agreed, these two metrics are just as arbitrary as any other life-defining metric, "the number of healthy grand children you had", "the number of phish concerts you went to", "the number of Free AOL hours CDs you collected"
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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by mindcrime on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:35PM (#19107798)
"the number of phish concerts you went to"

Yep. For me it's "number of Mötley Crüe concerts attended" and "number of Trans-Siberian Orchestra concerts attended".

(currently "4" and "4 or 5" respectively)

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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by themoat on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:50PM (#19108461)
My wife and I have missed the Trans-Siberian Orchestra every year for 10 years, but we REALLY want to go. It's almost a running joke at this point. This year I set about a dozen alerts that'll start going off at the end of summer to make sure I don't forget to get the tickets.
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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by mindcrime on Thursday February 07, 2019 @04:25PM (#19108744)
Oh man... I cannot recommend seeing TSO live highly enough. The music is amazing enough by itself, but the live shows - with the lights, the pyro, the video screens, and all the other "stuff" they do - are an absolutely amazing spectacle.

I'm also very happy that they've slowly been incorporating more old Savatage songs into their sets. :-)

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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by retsibsi on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:43AM (#19113021)
> "4 or 5"

I'm curious now: is there a story behind this ambiguity?

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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by mindcrime on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:33PM (#19119330)
Not really. I just don't remember exactly which years I went. I think I went to my first TSO show in like 2004 or 2005, and for a while I was keeping to a cadence of going every other year... but I haven't been for the past couple of years, and I've lost track of exactly how many times I've seen them.
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