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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 241 points 2 months ago (4 children)

(...) Foley was once worth $1.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, but left the company with a net worth of $225 million.

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The ex-Peloton chief was forced to downsize twice—including selling a $55 million East Hampton waterfront home and uprooting his family.

Though Foley has lost much of his fortune, the ordeal has not extinguished his ambition. Within a year of resigning from the top job at Peloton, he had raised $25 million for his new venture, a direct-to-consumer rug company called Ernesta.

You know, my heart is not exactly bleeding for the guy. Nobody should even have a $55 million residence in the first place, fucking hell. Also, being left with only $225 million is hardly losing all your money, is it?

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 104 points 2 months ago

$225m only generates an extremely conservative $9m year in interest. I know I couldn’t live off such a pittance. Please have sympathy for this poor man.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 98 points 2 months ago

"No member of my family through to my great grandchildren will need to work a day in their lives; I'm ruined."

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nobody should have 55m no matter what makes them worth that much

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[–] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 106 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is some asshat complaining that he isnt a billionaire anymore and how he is now humble and hungry to make it back there since his net worth is now only a lowly 225 million and he had to sell his 55 million dollar home. He is not pennyless selling his possessions he just had to downgrade his living style from wasteful worthless billionaire to the low level of a few hundred millionaire.

Don't worry everyone he started a direct sales rug company he thinks should get him back to 500 million. Fuck this article and that guy.

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 94 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

(in response to him selling the family home)

"My family took it well," the 53-year-old told the New York Post. "My wife's super supportive. My kids are probably better for it, if we're keeping it real."

Just another demonstration of how the Hedonic Treadmill effect means becoming a billionaire won't meaningfully improve your life compared to the negative impact you inflict upon all of society by taking millions of dollars of worker's and consumer's value from them!

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When "keeping it real" goes wrong.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

His family's darkest hour is my family's wildest, most impossible dream.

Actually I don't know many people who actually dream of that kind of wealth - just enough stability and security to be able to live modestly from a life of labour and in to retirement.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I firmly believe I could live comfortably for the rest of my life if I had $2-3 million.

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I once told my boss that I could quit if I won a million dollars and lived off of 5% interest. He said no you couldn't, think about car payments, house, all expenses, $50k a year wouldn't cover that. Then I reminded him that $50k was more than I was currently making, by kind of a lot. He shut up very quickly lol.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure house and car are two of the three most expensive expenses a person has. Pay them off immediately and you won’t need much else to survive.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

For real. My dream is just to know I'm not a car accident, broken bone, random sickness, or mild rolled ankle from complete and utter financial ruin. I can't even imagine that kind of security.

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[–] Branquinho@lemmy.eco.br 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So he drank too many lattes and didn't work hard enough. /s

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

all that avacado toast

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's fine. All he has to do is pull himself to by his bootstraps, cancel his Netflix account and he'll be back a billionaire in a year.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

He's still buying avocado toast. He'll never financially recover.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His possessions included a $55 million house. Boo fucking hoo.

Within a year of resigning from the top job at Peloton, he had raised $25 million for his new venture, a direct-to-consumer rug company called Ernesta.

So he failed at one company massively and investors were dumb enough to throw $25 million at him for making fucking rugs?

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago

You could say they got their rugs pulled!

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 40 points 2 months ago

This is HORRIBLE! We need to TAX HOMELESS MOTHERS so we can give this JOB CREATOR some MONEY!

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I find it funny you posted this to Uplifting, that's just so... Lemmy.

Kind of inappropriate, technically, but made me laugh none the less.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well, billionaires should not exist so the news was uplifting to me.

[–] garpujol@discuss.online 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also uplifted!

And really, how could a billionaire really lose their money? Like, you have a billion dollars… stop fucking about and retire! You don’t need more. Clearly no concept of money.

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[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago

It's uplifting because it is going to incentivive this titan of industry to create a new company to regain all his wealth. Think about how much wealth will trickle down when he makes another billion dollar company.

[–] bdot@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

did he go broke because he had to pay for a subscription to Peloton?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

"The ex-Peloton chief was forced to downsize twice—including selling a $55 million East Hampton waterfront home and uprooting his family. "My family took it well," the 53-year-old told the New York Post. "My wife's super supportive. My kids are probably better for it, if we're keeping it real."

Can we burn these fucking people for warmth?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

correct community to post this in

[–] match@pawb.social 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the orphan crushing machine is running in reverse

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Someone should buy him a Peloton for christmas

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

A used one that he still needs to pay to activate.

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He just needs to stop buying that avocado toast and expensive coffee in the morning.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I prefer my uplifting news without the schadenfreude.

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I am not into uplifting news because somebody had to go down. I like news of socially conscious people doing good to people in need of uplifting.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Nobody taught him how to billionaire right.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago
[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] YeeHawSeeSaw@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to billionaires, he’ll easily return to his former glory by pulling himself up on those massive bootstraps we should all apparently be using.

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Fun trivia... Pulling yourself up from your bootstraps is impossible and the phrase came from an 1800s physics textbook that asked why a person can't pull themselves up that way.

It somehow got twisted to mean that it should be possible with hard work.

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What a coincidence. I too am a temporarily embarrassed billionaire! He should come to our meetings where we show you how to find a million dollars just by checking the couch cushions and working 148 concurrent jobs.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 11 points 2 months ago
[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hahahahahhahaha.

Yeeeeeessss.

a direct-to-consumer rug company called Ernesta

Ah... Another brilliant idea.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Subscription stationary bikes was his golden goose remember. It’s a pretty horrendous notion, but they had brilliant marketing and a pandemic to ride.

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[–] patacon_pisao@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Oh no. Anyway …

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I guess the only thing left to do is to go on a submersible dive.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Man, I too could rough it with 225 million, maybe... someone should give that to me, to see if I can make ends meet! I'd like to try that experiment.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Perk up bud. You can always sell your blood.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[–] hate2bme@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Fucking richers

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