A founder sold his company for $300 million and kept working full-time to teach his kids that laziness is wrong. The speaker argues this misses the point of success: the freedom to choose what matters, not endless work.
And so, if we take one, for example, work hard and you'll be successful. I knew a guy that sold his company. It's a very well-known company that everybody would know for $300 million. And we were having a conversation after he sold, and he was priding himself on the fact that he was still going to work every day. And I asked him why he was doing that, and he was like, oh, well, I got to show my kids you can't be lazy. And I'm like, man, that like, you've done everything right. You've knocked it out of the park. You have achieved the ultimate American dream. And here you are bound to your desk going and spending 8 hours a day at a company that you've already sold to show your kids not to be lazy. And I'm thinking like, man, if I sell my company for $300 million, I want to show my kids that I can spend all the time with them I possibly can, right?
