"... the fact is, that a year after losing the use of their legs, and a year after winning the Lotto, lottery winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives."
"In fact a recent study -- this almost floors me -- a recent study showing how major life traumas affect people, suggests that if it happened over three months ago, with only a few exceptions, it has no impact whatsoever on your happiness."
So... he wrote the partnership agreement and then bailed two weeks later because he didn't like the provisions in the agreement. That really does suck.
EDIT: Scratch that. It's the partnership laws of the state, not the agreement that he apparently had issues with. Still depressing, but at least not as idiotic as I thought.
So...are people auto-down voting me because they see "facepalm" and their meme detectors go crazy? Down voting (at least in my view) is for spam or ridiculous posts; saying that a guy is probably kicking himself (regardless of what Wikipedia says) for selling out a company that's trading at $170/share seems legitimate. Even if you disagree, that's what comments are for, not burying
People is down-voting you because that comment is only adding noise to the thread. It's the kind of comment that populates digg and reddit and that makes such places such a terrible visit. People is more interested in more informative, argumentative, etc comments (humor is sometimes accepted, but it is when it shows some kind of subtlety I think).
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 37.8 ms ] threadIf I was in his position, I'd feel the same way. He made the best decision he could, and that's all one can do.
"... the fact is, that a year after losing the use of their legs, and a year after winning the Lotto, lottery winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives."
"In fact a recent study -- this almost floors me -- a recent study showing how major life traumas affect people, suggests that if it happened over three months ago, with only a few exceptions, it has no impact whatsoever on your happiness."
Dan Gilbert, http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_...
EDIT: Scratch that. It's the partnership laws of the state, not the agreement that he apparently had issues with. Still depressing, but at least not as idiotic as I thought.
facepalm
But from reading this it appears this may be one of the best examples of why not to play around with lawyer stuff if you are not a lawyer.
Don't write a partnership agreement. Form a corporation and then you are not liable for the debts of others. That is law 101.
Am I missing something to this story?
You can almost hear the other two saying "This thing is going to huge". And him saying "well maybe...good luck guys, I'm out.
He must have failed to grasp something essential about the enterprise to make that decision. So maybe it's all good he just wasn't an apple man. :)