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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Foley was once worth $1.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, but left the company with a net worth of $225 million.

Jeez, the poor guy... only $225 mill... how do you go on living when you've sunk that low? ~/s~

That's not even 3 yachts!

Won't someone think of the poor starving yacht builders!

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve done the math. I could live my entire life without working (except for fun) on $6 million. This MF has $225 million and describes it as losing all his money.

Fuck that guy.

[–] matt1126@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could live comfortably on the interest alone on $6 million, even with just a 1% AER you'd be getting $5k gross per month.

So yeah, fuck that guy.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Although you can conservatively invest like, two thirds of it, and live much more extravagantly than $5k per month and still never run out.

[–] matt1126@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

For sure, not financial advice but more of an indication of the absurd amount of money $200+ million is.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah but his car doors go like that, not like this.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I also lost all my money and had to sell my possessions, but like literally. $ 0 ( zero ) left, that's what i understand, when i hear or say loosing all my money.

Foley should eat a bag of foul foley.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago

Sounds like he was living beyond his means. Maybe he should have not bought an iPhone, had avocado toast, and had Starbucks all the time. He can pick himself up by his bootstraps.

(Yeah, I know he’s still worth a couple hundred mil. Smallest fiddle for him.)

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"I don't have much money left"

Proceeds to get 25 million in funding for his new company. Come the fuck on guy, you live a life practically nobody else does. Even if you were left with a paltry 50 million after you were kicked out of the company you drove into the ground with predatory subscription tactics. That's more than enough for you, your kids, and your grandkids to all live on comfortably... but no, you have over quadruple that.

Selling the 55 million dollar home just made sense because it wasn't making money for him the same way cash would.

[–] buttfarts@lemy.lol 0 points 1 year ago

A starving camel is still bigger than a horse

[–] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago
[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Imagine ~~exploring~~ exploiting thousands of people and still ending up poor

[–] vahtos@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure after exploring thousands of people you're more likely to get chlamydia than rich. I could be wrong though, maybe try it?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Will report back if I get permission from the wife. Wish me luck.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, simply impoverished with his 225 million dollars that remain.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How could anyone last a week like that? Absolutely abandoned by society, that man is.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Tell me about it. I bet he can't even just walk out onto the helipad and fly to work, he probably has to have a chauffeur drive him through TRAFFIC.

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who was exploited and how?

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

American workers were not exploitable enough for their business model

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Its so easy to guess this shit. Billionaire? Definitely has fucked people over.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemme know when he's done failing back up and lives in a cardboard box like the rest of us.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Bonus points is it's a Peleton box.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Oh no.

Anyway.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

"Tres Comas is for winners. I don't deserve Tres Comas."

[–] MasterMediasRes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I honestly wonder at a certain point the human brain switches back into a scarcity mindset once you hit the point beyond which the sums are fathomable anymore. For instance, for most of us, when we hear about 800c000 dollars, the brain goes “Hey, that’s a lot of money”, but I wonder if someone who has 8 million thinks at some level “whoa, I only have 8 of something—best be careful with it!!”