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Russian Nobleman paradox. 100 million is still a lot though. Company was AppNexus, name rings a bell. Sold to AT&T.
Even still, $100m is more than enough to live a very comfortable life and secure your family's future. No one needs $1b.
What about $300b though?
That’s like, occasionally order off the value menu rich
To be fair, the article does mention that he's considering using that as a way to fund his current startup if it ever needs a cash injection, rather than turning straight to more VCs, which is probably good in the long run in terms of reducing how much the company could have to cater toward predatory investors over customers, so I'd consider at least part of his remaining wealth just a means to fund a separate venture from his private life, but still, he probably does have more than enough even after that.
Also, I'd never heard of the Russian Nobleman paradox before, but I looked it up and it seems interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
I'm not criticizing him for keeping enough to keep him and his family comfortable for a few generations. Giving away a comma is a big request that he did without needing to be asked.
TIL
Maybe I'm missing something, seems like an easy "paradox" to solve:
The legal regime recognizes the person as the same person, proven by the very premise of the question, that the older nobleman retains ownership over the funds. The wife should honor the promise because she made the promise with a person continuous with the younger nobleman in the relevant aspect (it is legal document). The fact that the older nobleman has different beliefs is irrelevant because the question already concedes primacy to the law, implicit in the law protecting the older gentleman's right to dictate disposition of the funds. Someone enlighten me if I'm missing the point?
Now... if the younger nobleman disclaimed his old self and all prior inheritance (or had amnesia and lost all connection to his prior self), and built a new fortune somehow covered by the earlier promise, that would be a more interesting question. Then the person may not be continuous for ethical/duty purposes yet still continuous for legal purposes.
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If the old nobleman is considered a different person than his younger self - then the entire concept of promises is voided.
AppNexus is a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising. It was founded in 2007...
I felt like this guy was doing the right thing but the amount of visual pollution he must have enabled in his career is wild. I hope it keeps him up at night.
Yeah, I would feel bad keeping all of the money from that, too.