At a family BBQ, my mother announced, “You’re old enough—pay rent or get out.” I chose to move out. She laughed, saying a failure like me would end up in a slum. The next day, when I moved into my new house, she brought 20 relatives to mock me—until they saw where I lived… and suddenly went silent.

know that for the last four years, while they were gossiping and financing cars at 18% interest, I had been writing code. They didn’t know I had built a highly specialized, proprietary B2B e-commerce platform that was currently being licensed by three Fortune 500 companies. They didn’t know that I had over a million dollars in liquid assets sitting continue reading …