It’s not fair. Today Colin Powell and Kliener Perkins Caufield & Beyer announced that he will be a partner in this monolith of a venture capital firm. He won’t have to spend much time there (keeping his current residence in VA and working out of the Alexandria office), mainly serving as a consultant in how potential companies will fit into the ever evolving global technological marketplace. The thing that really gets me though, is that he is doing all these other things on the side, i.e. lecturing at tens of thousands of dollars per speech, investing in a health care holdings company – Revolutions, being in part of a group trying to purchase the Washington Nationals, and serving as a member on several nonprofit boards.
It doesn’t seem fair because most people have these lofty aspirations of owning their own business or something, but Powell gets to do these things mainly because he has a lot of money. How does 35 years of military experience parlay into health care companies, baseball or biotech/tech venture capitalism?? I don’t get it.
I’m struggling just to maintain a “normal” lifestyle paying one entire paycheck just for rent, and this guy is dabbling in whatever he pleases. When I get filthy rich, watch out world, here I come!
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