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#299: How to Secure Financial Freedom, Maximize Productivity, and Protect Your Health

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Building Wealth, Preserving Wealth

I assumed the network built the skills developed, the knowledge acquired over that two year period of time would benefit me more than the $120,000 which I assumed I would lose. That then set me on this accidental career of being an early stage tech angel investor and advisor. And that tiny sliver of my total pie chart at that time due to lucky slash good investments has swollen to a gigantic percentage with companies like Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba and so on. So if we assume there's some element of skill, the way that I've thought about it is number one, capping downside first versus evaluating upside and looking at minimal downside.

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