Apr 19 2010
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“ My partners and I make a decent living, but we manage $275 million. I have friends who are my same age who are partners at Goldman Sachs, or who are running their own hedge funds, who make ten to a hundred times more money than I make. I’m not upset about it, because I love what I do. But in New York, it’s about making money.
— Fred Wilson in NYMag. I disagree COMPLETELY. In the New York I know, it’s about loving what you - and figuring out how to make money from it. It’s a definite process, and doesn’t happen overnight. But I feel like since the financial crisis smacked us all in the face in Sept ‘08, that notion of doing-what-you-love-loving-what-you-do has crystallized into something a lot more dominant.
