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Ask HN: You privately received $24M. What would you do?

3 points by lopespm ↗ HN
Generic question yes, but I believe it's a good thought experiment to sort out some macro objectives/priorities and at the same time ask ourselves: "Why am I not doing this yet?"

It would be very interesting to know your thoughts on the subject.

PS: Why $24.000.000? Say you hypothetically have 100 years ahead of you, then this would be equivalent to receiving $20.000 per month.

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mattbgates
It depends on what I would be expected to do with it. If used wisely, it could last at least 2-3 years if nothing more was earned. Personally, if I was just given it and told I could do as I please, I'd probably invest it and put it into a bunch of stocks to let it grow, and continue working to make money.
ColinWright
Have you mis-read this? It's 24 million ...
Talbotson
24.000.000 is not 24 million.

24,000,000 is 24 million.

JumpCrisscross
> 24.000.000 is not 24 million

There are many conventions for thousands separation [1]. 1.000; 1,000; 1 000; and 1'000 can all mean one thousand.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark

lopespm
Good point. I can't edit the main post anymore, so it might cause some confusion still. To make it clear, the purpose was to express 24 million dollars
mattbgates
My bad...sorry about that, I did mis-read the post. I've seen period use, but normal operations in $US transactions is not a period, but commas. $24,000,000. I originally mis-read it and thought $24,000.000 so I was thinking twenty-four thousand.
[dead] rjvr
If ColinWright could read the millions correctly, what is your problem, Talbotson? Anyone with simple common sense could read that as millions. You seem to be just sprinkling your comments rudely everywhere, including in my post.

What gives, Talbotson, what is your problem?

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wdiamond
a medice college, with brain specialization, then invest on human-computer interface(but wisely and slowly), it requires experience that no one has(one might call but it is not experience when you cannot write a undergraduate textbook).
Gravityloss
One could start the companies doing the things you see the world needs, are cool and you could contribute to.