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there's few different categories of FU money each with increasingly lower probability

1 million dollars: doable but very hard. you can finally buy that crack shack in vancouver, bc

10 million dollars: could be doable depending how you got to your first million. if it's scalable operation, no problem.

100 million dollars: continued growth from previous operation with compounding returns or have been part of a successful startup that was sold.

1000 million dollars: founder/co-founder of a company that was sold previously to a very large search engine or social network.

10000 million dollars: own majority equity in a very well known public company, inherited.

100000 million dollars: run a country that produces oil or cocaine as it's most popular exports. You can't have any competition around. launder it excessively.



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