[karambahh]

> If you don't get deals because you don't shower then that's a solved problem since Roman times and you should only blame yourself ;)

Absolutely!

> Once you're past $1M net worth or so the game gets easier, sometimes a lot easier.

I sometimes feel that difficulty of doing business is halved with very order of magnitude, being friends with business owners whose net worth are between 10k€ and 50M€. My 50M€ friend has access to things my 10k€ wouldn't even believe exists.

50M€ is "let me talk to the ministry chief of staff about this. I'll also talk to the CEO of a fortune 500 company about this mild inconvenience"

10k€ is queuing at the city building in the hope that maybe someone will do something about the closed road leading to your shop.

> But $1M vs $1B doesn't make much of a difference if the business tanks and you've invested all of your capital in your own business.

> And that's the main reason you don't see billionaires usually spending all their money on their own projects: they spread the risk around to avoid possibly losing it all.