Bridger Pennington advises someone planning to sell their company for $100 million to prioritize family balance instead of chasing wealth. He points to Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates' divorces as proof that money doesn't guarantee happiness, and recommends joining a mastermind group to stay grounded.
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I'm gonna sell my company next year for $100 million. I've got a family and kids. What would you advise me to do to make sure that I raise a good family, good kids? I would say come to the mastermind I started for that very reason, is to help people balance their lives. So they're not just chasing money, saying, I'll be happy when, when I get all this money, I'm going to be happy. It doesn't work that way. I mean, look at Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, all the money in the world, but they don't have their families together. Both divorced recently. Divorced. So You know, some— if you don't keep balance along the way, everything can fall apart when the money comes.