Three exits, three very different endings: What fast money does to founders | 2 Commas by Josh Comrie

Money that arrives fast doesn't fix you. It finds out who you already are.Everyone assumes building real wealth takes twenty years. These three founders didn't wait. Seeby Woodhouse registered Orcon for $29.85 at nineteen, doubled it every year for nine years, and exited at twenty-nine, then spent $18 million on property six weeks before the GFC. Keith Davison failed at five companies before Cloud Conformity went from nothing to a $120 million exit in under two and a half years, with no founder taking a salary for most of them. Joshua Parsons was a cop at seventeen, cleaning pools at twenty-seven, and had built and sold two companies by his early thirties. This best-of episode is three honest accounts of fast money and what it costs.We get into:Seeby doubling his company every year for nine years straightWhy Keith took zero salary for two and a half years before a $120m exitHow Joshua learned to sell as a cop before he ever ran a businessWhat Seeby did with millions at twenty-nine and the GFC lesson that followedWhy all three say the money was the start of the hard partGetting rich young is a skill nobody teaches you how to survive.Subscribe to the 2 Commas JournalOrder the 2 Commas bookFollow Josh on LinkedIn