No way! At 40, I’m the perfect age to make TWO Microsofts! Or one Megahard!
Motivational
Submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or conquer all of Asia and kill enough people, and cause enough children to be a significant part of the gene pool for thousands of years
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oppan Ghenghis style!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
I can make Orange. All we do is take other people’s ideas, make them look a little nicer and charge 1000% more.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
like the telephone company?
nolight@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve never seen capitalism explained better than this.
takeda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also most of those “self made” billionaires already grew up in wealthy families.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, the youngest ever (at the time, at least) “self made” billionaire was a fucking Kardashian!
Poggervania@kbin.social 1 year ago
Steve Jobs was 21 when he got Mike Markkula to invest a ton of money into incorporating Apple.
Bill Gates was 20 when he realized he came from a rich family thanks to his dad being a good lawyer and his mom was on a ton of Executice Boards.
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ibm.
That’s how he got a hold of dos.
Rhaedas@kbin.social 1 year ago
IBM is how he got into the PC infrastructure via licensing. He saw what the execs didn't, that anyone could build hardware but what ran on it controlled the world. And I don't know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand. Which if true says even more about the IBM execs who agreed to something sight unseen.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Probably was the parents pushing him(and helping him ofc), but where is the “star child” history in that eh?
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sadly, the age of garage tech startups is over, big tech made sure of that. They now just buy tech start ups with no intention of leveraging their innovations, but rather to maintain the status quo. Late stage capitalism…
phx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Garage tech startups where the garage belongs to your already upper-income-class parents
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
I know it’s not a business, but the whole fediverse gives “garage startup” vibes, and it’s refreshing.
Sorgan71@lemmy.world 1 year ago
no such thing as big tech. Just tech companies
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Too lazy to give up, fuck it
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Silly. I gave up way before I was in my 20s.
Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
Don’t forget to mention that you were born 50 years too late on wrong part of the globe to wrong parents. Game was rigged from the start.
uphillbothways@kbin.social 1 year ago
Someone's just going to steal whatever you make anyway.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Think outside of the box, make pear.
BenadrylChunderHatch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MegaHard Pear.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 year ago
If you never try, you never have to give up.
MrWafflesNBacon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah I’m too tired to give up
PugJesus@kbin.social 1 year ago
Joke's on you, I gave up long ago!
someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I believe these are known as demotivational posters.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I wasn’t planning on making a company like Apple or Microsoft, but thanks for the heads up, now I know I shouldn’t even bother 👍.
CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Elizabeth Holmes screeching noises
Quik@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Jokes on you, have years left until then.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
If you start a business in your garage, I want in.
Montagge@kbin.social 1 year ago
Gotta also be born into wealth so you can borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars from your family
deaf_fish@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Upvoating for comedy not accuracy.
It’s unlikely to create a successful business late in life, but not impossible. Best of luck to all who are giving it a shot!
DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
In all honesty the big market is basically full but nicht products still allow for small company creation
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s correct, thanks
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not for me.
TeaHands@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Never!
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 year ago
My internal monologue: “I’m not giving up, I can do this all day!”
“Yeah, I know! I know…”
nifty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like to suffer tho
Heresy_generator@kbin.social 1 year ago
"You will never be happy :)"
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 year ago
Starting with a small loan of $10 million, at 8% return, invested for 60 years, is all that is needed to be a billionaire.
Get rich parents that will loan their newborn $10 million.
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here in Norway, a few years back, almost every news outlet had “guides” on how to buy your first apartment/house (buying a home became an integrated part of our economy after the war).
It was in the style of “if I can do it, anyone can”-interview with someone that just recently had bought their first home. The articles started pretty tame with clever tips where the boy/girl made coffee/lunch at home and saved a fortune. Sure. Nice tips on how to save money.
Then it usually escalated to get your parents to buy an apartment, rent it out and keep all the rent income while living for free at home. After a while, sell the apartment and buy a new one.
Pretty fucking horrifying that journalists thought: “yes, this is a good article to print. It will help people!”
jettrscga@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That reminds me of this savings plan from 10 year ago that McDonalds and Visa created to show people how you can live on ~$20k:
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They forgot to include food, among other wild inaccuracies. I love it when corporations helpful living tips.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s right, it’s not too late to get adopted by an oligarch