Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
Yeah - he decided he wanted a billion dollars more than he wanted his friends. All he had to do was share.
He may have been worried he’d find out they weren’t actually friends, but just co-workers. They take off doing whatever and he’s left in the same spot, just with a lot less money and feeling used on top of it all. He took the sure thing instead of the gamble.
I’ve had co-workers tell me if they won the lotto they would share it with me and some others. When they left the company, I never heard from them again. We weren’t real friends, we just spent 40 hours per week together and made the best of it. If this was the case with Notch’s friends at Minecraft, then they either leave, or they stick around under some sense of obligation. That would still change the relationship and could lead to some resentment.
If you have to share your money for your friends to stick around you, they’re not really friends.
In addition to suddenly being a billionaire, I’m sure life in the public eye didn’t help his situation at all, especially to someone who I imagine spends/spent a lot of time online reading comments from armchair psychologists speaking about him.
Look, if someone wants to give me a billion dollars I will prove that it doesn’t turn you into a Nazi unless you’re already secretly a Nazi.
It’s more complicated then that, but still fair to say
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