What would you do if you were the richest man (or women) alive? would you revel in the fame or stand back? Personally the latter would be my choice. This week with the growth of my current company increasing I have been largely thinking about exit strategy’s, planning my what ifs and my backup what ifs. A plan is important for me - gives me something to beat, something to surpass.
I suppose provided I make it to the multi billionaire status I will probably split my time between family and sustained growth of my empire. I have plans of space and intend to leave earth permanently before I die, perhaps that ambition is a bi-product of a misspent youth, with first person shooters, star trek games and farscape the igniting flame. But wont it be cool when we make it to proper outer space? Where you could just jet off in a direction and see completely new things unseen previously by any human. In business terms I think space is so inconceivably huge that its the equivalent of 1000 gold mines the size of 134million earth’s in terms of available business pursuits. You could operate a deep space expedition or just farm red sand on Mars, operate a hotel on Pluto or pretend to run a jedi school..(lol)
So maybe we will be the generation to which 80% of exit strategies were underplanned, maybe we will find a trick to an extra 60 years of life or work out how to see Mars in person for under £500. I guess we have to keep at our real world business’s - I just don’t see technology slowing down!