Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

I Got Everything I Wanted. Now What?

14 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, Cameron Herold outlines the three primary reasons entrepreneurs launch companies—accomplishment, money, and free time. He explains that once those goals are achieved, a deeper existential question emerges: what is the true purpose and meaning of life beyond business success? Herold shares his personal status of having amassed sufficient wealth that he cannot spend it all, lives tax‑free in Dubai’s economic free zone, and has built a global speaking career spanning 29 countries and all continents, including Antarctica. With external validation no longer needed, he confronts the challenge of finding fulfillment and direction after attaining every conventional entrepreneurial milestone.

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Entrepreneurs only start a company for one of 3 reasons, either to have a feeling of accomplishment, right? That success that I did it, to have money and to have free time. At some point when you can check those boxes, you have to ask yourself why we're doing this. You know, what is that real reason? 'Cause again, at the end of the day, we are going to die. So what do we want our life to be? What do we want our meaning to be? How do we want to enjoy this journey? And is it really going to work every day? So I'm at this stage right now where I finally have enough money that I'll never be able to spend it all before I die. I won't be able to spend every bit of money that I've got. I live in an economic free zone. I don't pay tax anymore. So now my money is really growing. So I'm a resident of Dubai. I don't pay personal tax. I have the feeling of accomplishment. I've already built all these companies. I've been paid to speak in 29 countries. I got paid to speak on every continent, including Antarctica. So there's no reason to, to feel the praise or pride of doing it anymore.