Dear community,
What a great forum! So cool to see so many people working towards FIRE. I am happy to join a liked-minded community and hopefully we can help each others.
About me:
In my start 20s I quickly realized that I didn't want to working bee or have anybody telling me what to do.
I figured that the only way to escape, was to become rich fast, so then I started reading books, blogs, and articles on how to make a successful start-up.
Some of the books were - and I highly recommend them:
- The millionaire fastlane by MJ Demarco
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill
- How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
I made a startup with a friend to put our knowledge into practice and get some experience. We learned a lot, but it never grew into something significant. But because I had that experience, it gave me the possibility to make another startup - a tech company - with a couple of friends, which turned out to be extremely successful.
We scaled it up, expanded it to multiple countries, made some smart moves and hired a very experienced management team to run the company (we knew that we could not take it as far as we wanted with our experience)
Long story short, I moved to Switzerland to avoid the high capital gains tax in my home country and the past 3 years I have been retired, been doing a lot of traveling and having much fun.
Now my challenge is to create a meaningful life with purpose and I was hoping to find some persons in the same position as me, in this community.
Thank you
What a great forum! So cool to see so many people working towards FIRE. I am happy to join a liked-minded community and hopefully we can help each others.
About me:
In my start 20s I quickly realized that I didn't want to working bee or have anybody telling me what to do.
I figured that the only way to escape, was to become rich fast, so then I started reading books, blogs, and articles on how to make a successful start-up.
Some of the books were - and I highly recommend them:
- The millionaire fastlane by MJ Demarco
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill
- How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
I made a startup with a friend to put our knowledge into practice and get some experience. We learned a lot, but it never grew into something significant. But because I had that experience, it gave me the possibility to make another startup - a tech company - with a couple of friends, which turned out to be extremely successful.
We scaled it up, expanded it to multiple countries, made some smart moves and hired a very experienced management team to run the company (we knew that we could not take it as far as we wanted with our experience)
Long story short, I moved to Switzerland to avoid the high capital gains tax in my home country and the past 3 years I have been retired, been doing a lot of traveling and having much fun.
Now my challenge is to create a meaningful life with purpose and I was hoping to find some persons in the same position as me, in this community.
Thank you