[paradoxparalax]

I have had a few times, the experience of being all the working time and extra-time together with CEOs of different businesses, in different countries, and I have met some wealthy people on this "job", I wont risk saying amounts, but probably only one or two of them has more value in companies than the 25 mi you describe. I have met, in few days meetings, or one-time meeting, people with an order of magnitude, at least, the value you mention in personal wealth. In my case, I was regarded as advisor, right-hand, "friend" and "partner", and to this very day some of them are still sending me messages to ask me to go back to work with them. I have concluded its all just delaying me in starting my own company, and I ignore everything now, literally eat Ramen noodles, and focus on my programming project, that I have been delaying for years, despise all close people calling me crazy, when they see people driving a million dollar car knocking at my door and I say I don't have time, send them away! and they know I'm eating noodles just, I will keep on the field I choose and I believe is the one for me to make money, even with zero experience in this field besides a half-complete toy program, and having years of experience and sizeable knowledge in other profitable fields, in the end I have to do what I believe will make me my Own money, and is better to start my own business, otherwise one can spend his life helping other peoples' business.