You can’t fix it later

In listening to the Founders podcast, one big theme runs through almost every story that is shared — the founders become incredibly wealthy, but lose their marriage, children, and/or health as a result of it.

An example is Larry Miller, who owned the Utah Jazz. He had it all, but he had nothing. From the show:

All he did from the time his eyes opened until the time his eyes closed, he worked, did not take care of himself to the point where he’s health is so bad that he is in a motorized scooter wheelchair on the floor of the Utah Jazz, he couldn’t even move.

Eventually, he’s writing the book because he knows he’s dying, they’re chopping off parts of his body, legit, there’s no circulation in his legs, they’re like chopping off his foot, there goes your fingers. This billionaire started decomposing when he’s alive, then he doesn’t even survive long enough to finish the book, so his co-author writes last few chapters and the worst indictment and so Larry Miller says my life is cautionary tale.

I have a 30,000-square-foot house on the hill on a mountain in Utah. I own the Utah Jazz, everything. I’m perfect. And he’s like don’t do it, don’t be me. He’s like, I didn’t even have any fun in life. What’s the point of having money then, that doesn’t make any sense to me. And so what happens is the author — the co-author is talking to…