Tech’s new rich suffering from ‘sudden wealth syndrome’

Bloomberg: Walling says the people who handle a windfall best tend to hold two ideas at once: “I worked really hard, and I got really lucky.” Reward without inflated self-regard. Those who struggle most tend to be the ones for whom the company was everything — no healthy relationships, no hobbies, no sense of meaning outside the exit. “That’s where you tie your whole self-worth and your individual sense of well-being to this event,” Walling says. No amount of money is “going to be enough to sustain that for you.”…

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