Ask HN: How has your life changed after selling your startup?

Re:Ask HN: How has your life changed after selling your star... by diego on Friday December 02, 2011 @12:14PM (#3304715)

Retirement doesn't exist. What happens is that your values change. Money is not the main driver of your daily work.

I work to:

- make an impact in other people's lives.

- earn respect and recognition.

- do something interesting and challenging.

- learn new skills (I never want to stop learning).

I "could stop anytime I wanted to" but I never do. I don't want to.

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Re:Ask HN: How has your life changed after selling your star... by jpdoctor on Friday December 02, 2011 @01:10PM (#3304975)

> Retirement doesn't exist.

This.

I actually took off but I only lasted 3 months before I was trying out things that turned into my new startup. I'm a failure at lying down with a pina colada on a beach... it drove me up a friggen wall to be honest.

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Re:Ask HN: How has your life changed after selling your star... by ChuckMcM on Friday December 02, 2011 @02:55PM (#3305416)

For a long time I realized that there was a cognitive disconnect between what I meant when I said 'retire' and what people heard. This captures the 'after you don't need to please someone else in order to fund your daily life expenses' mode that I think of as 'retirement.' I know I'll be hacking new things and reading interesting papers and writing code right up until the point where the EEEG straightlines :-)

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Re:Ask HN: How has your life changed after selling your star... by broody on Friday December 02, 2011 @04:00PM (#3305647)

> I know I'll be hacking new things and reading interesting papers and writing code right up until the point where the EEEG straightlines

I haven't started any startups (want to so badly) but this line here resonates a lot with me :)

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