Do any of you know each other in real-life?

To be clear, I’m not asking for anyone’s complete identities here or anything, I’m just curious if any of the users here are all that close in real-life. Just to make it more concrete, as a 1,500+ banana point account, are there any 1,500+ banana point account holders that you know in real-life? Are you friends? How does that work? Did you meet over the platform first or did you just figure out the other person had a WSO account as a matter of course? Cheers

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Made a friend because of WSO, I was using it on my phone and this guy says “Oh you use wso too!?” But I’ve never actually met anyone through WSO.

 

I met up with a bunch of people in NYC from another finance forum and hooked up with one of them, but haven’t met anyone on WSO. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

We met at the boxing club kiddo.  You may not remember it well as you got TKOed!  

 

damn yeah

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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I've met a few from WSO in person before, and a decent number over phone (though unfortunately not so much recently)

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I’ve spoken with several people who know my actual name. One of my closest friends I met on this forum actually.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” - Nassim Taleb
 

I know BarelyWorkingCapital and NotYourFathersBroker, all lived in the same city for a while. Not WSOers but pretty close.

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