Did anyone read the Andrew Lahde fairwell email? The whole thing is hilarious. I quote:
"The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, andthen the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy ofthe education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG,Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supportingthe Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the otherside of my trades. God bless America."
In his letter he touches upon everything from enjoying life, rags on the over privileged, the broken financial system, and gov't in general. He has found insight that I truly want to replicate. Anyways it brightened up my day in what has been a dismal month.
Definitely went around the office where I work as well.
~~~~~~~~~~~ CompBanker
A link, for anyone who hasn't seen it.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/andrew-lahde-go.html
Guy doesn't sound terribly savvy, just sounds like a typical internet whiner.
what a man though, nearly 1000% returns, damn
He sounds like a total fool. He got extremely lucky and bailed because he knows he can never replicate his success.
Thats cause he doesn't need to do what he did again. He's rich now, and knows (one of the few smart people) that happiness is not positively correlated with the pursuit of money, after a certain threshold. He reached that threshold and will probably be on a permanent vacation.
In my book, he won when almost everyone else lost. Got rich when everyone else got poor. A+.
the part about legalizing marijuana really struck a chord with me haha. classic.
Anyone talking trash about this guy is a dumbass and would gladly suck the dude off and swallow his man-chowder to have the type of success he's had. Fuckin' haters.
LMAO @ the random legalize weed rant at the end.
But isn't all the money he made irrelevant since he didn't go to a target?
I agree with some of the things. What I don't like is
No shit- we all compete and we all have shortcomings. The billionaires of the world and other uber successful people rarely have rich parents. And university and graduate school does NOT help much in making people uber successful. You won. Stop bitching and get some class (yale and harvard would have helped with that though)
e.g. "I'm black. wah-la-la-la. I am so successful despite having to compete with the burden of racism. It just proves how much more awesome I really am." Same for female, poor, latebloomer, former drug addict, country hick, from a third world country, blah, blah, blah. So the f what?
.......Agree with the hemp rant though.
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